WOODBURY, Minn. – Ideal Credit Union is reporting it give away $6,600 in cash prizes at this year’s Community Appreciation Events, including a $1,000 daily grand prize for adults age 18 and over, and $100 a day for youth age 17 and under.
Ideal’s sixth annual summer celebration will be held over the course of two weeks. Attendees will enjoy food, fun, prizes and a chance to give back to our local communities.
Among the benefits for members: a food truck from Aesop’s Table will be grilling hamburgers.
Food Items, Coats Being Collected
Ideal said it is encouraging attendees to bring a nonperishable food item to donate to local food shelves. The Ideal Community Foundation will again present a total of $3,000 to six local food shelves that reside within Ideal’s six branch locations to help feed our hungry neighbors. The recipients include the Hugo Good Neighbors Food Shelf, The Open Door, Neighbors, Inc., North St. Paul Area Food Shelf, Valley Outreach and the Christian Cupboard.
“Gently used” coats and winter accessories will also be collected for the annual Salvation Army Coats for Kids drive, the credit union said, noting it has partnered with the Salvation Army since 2010 to serve as a drop-off site for the local community and to provide monetary support for the Coats for Kids program. Collection barrels are available year-round in all six Ideal CU branch locations.