MAPLE GROVE, Minn.– Employees in SPIRE Credit Union’s Maple Grove branch recently began a partnership with the City of Maple Grove Parks and Recreation Board. Twice per year they will help clean up different areas within the Parks and Recreation system.
Earlier this year, Kelly Vold, SPIRE Maple Grove Branch Manager, and her team brainstormed volunteering ideas. “We discussed how nice it would be to do something new to give back to our community, and the park cleanup project is something we came across after researching the parks and recreation website,” said Vold, “This is our first year, and we are having a lot of fun getting together as a team to help keep our parks beautiful. We even ran into some SPIRE members as we were cleaning up the trail!”
At right, SPIRE Maple Grove Employees on site at Rice Lake Trail Cleanup. From left, Miriam Wells, Kelly Vold, Sarah Tillmann, Tammy Kalkwarf, Dawn Hundertmark, Stacey Tadeusiak and Brandon Severso
Meanwhile, SPIRE Credit Union has also recently launched its very own food truck Intended to be the next stop along their journey of giving back, the new food truck will be visiting a host of community events within the branch communities served by SPIRE. In just 5 short weeks of operation, the food truck has been at events in Ogilvie, Falcon Heights and St. Paul.
Earlier this year, SPIRE EVP, Stan Edwards, had an idea that has now turned into reality. “I envision this project taking on a new life and creating new beginnings for SPIRE and our members,” says Edwards, “Initially we are going to use it as a ‘reverse’ food truck, giving away SPIRE gifts and snacks at community events and collecting canned goods for local food shelves.”
The SPIRE food truck was recently on site at CHS Field in St. Paul, greeting fans as they arrived for Anchors Aweigh Night at the St. Paul Saints. Throughout the upcoming Minnesota State Fair, a ten day event, the truck will be on site at SPIRE’s administrative offices in Falcon Heights, welcoming the endless crowds of fair-goers.
“You never know what SPIRE will do next,” says SPIRE President/CEO, Dan Stoltz, “Our staff is having so much fun with the new food truck. They love getting out and talking with people in our communities and SPIRE’S core values are deeply tied to giving back to our members and the communities they live in.”
