WV OMEGA Raises $168,000 for Make-A-Wish Foundation

The organization and its retail members have helped raise more than $259,000 this year for groups that help children in West Virginia.

October 12, 2012

CHARLESTON - The West Virginia Oil Marketers & Grocers Association (OMEGA), an organization representing convenience stores, independent grocers and petroleum marketers across West Virginia, in conjunction with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, raised $168,507 to help grant the wishes of children diagnosed with life-threatening conditions during the month of August, association representatives announced today.

Additionally, the organization has raised more than $259,000 in 2012 for organizations that help West Virginia children, and more than $1.5 million since 2003 for charities that improve the health, safety and wellbeing of West Virginia children.

Jan Vineyard, president of OMEGA, said, "Our members, as well as the West Virginia public, truly get behind these efforts to help our children. The results of our August Make-A-Wish Foundation campaign and our April Children??s Home Society effort prove this out. This is all about making a difference in a child??s life and we are very appreciative of the public who graciously supported this effort."

Vineyard said that all the funds raised through the Make-A-Wish campaign will go to the southern and northern West Virginia Chapters of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and will be used solely to grant children??s wishes.

Wish stars were sold for one dollar at nearly 600 OMEGA-member convenience and grocery stores across the state from Aug. 1 to Aug. 30. Little General Convenience Stores sold the highest number of wish stars and single-handedly raised over $23,000.

In addition, a golf outing was held at Stonewall Resort on Wednesday, September 26 where many corporate sponsors, such as Little General Stores Inc., ExxonMobil Fuels Marketing, Marathon Petroleum Company, Maxum Petroleum Company/One Stop, Sledd Company, Prima/7-Eleven, Par Mar Stores and others, donated tens of thousands of dollars to the cause.

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