Cedar Point donates more than $2,700 to local organizations

Loose Change Fund has collected and donated more than $184,000 since 1988.

Monday, 21 December 2009

Cedar Point Press Release

Aluminum Can Fund Celebrates 20 Years of Helping

SANDUSKY, Ohio – During this season of giving, Cedar Point has donated all the money found at the park during the summer to a local organization.  This year, the Sandusky, Ohio, amusement park/resort has recently given nearly $1,900 to the Victory Temple Soup Kitchen in Sandusky.

Cedar Point’s Loose Change Fund originally began in 1988 and since that time has collected and donated more than $184,000 to local organizations.

Last month, the park donated nearly $4,000 worth of food and canned goods to several Sandusky charities.

“These gifts will help us provide much-needed assistance to the less-fortunate people in the area,” said Rev. Lonnie R. Walters, senior pastor of the Victory Temple Church.  “We are extremely grateful for this donation and Cedar Point’s continued support of the Victory Temple Soup Kitchen.”

During the season, Cedar Point employees collect and turn in any money found along the midway, beneath the rides and in the park’s water attractions to the Loose Change Fund.

“The Victory Temple Soup Kitchen helps people who need it the most”, said John Hildebrandt, vice president and general manager of Cedar Point.  “Our employees take great pride in their efforts to assist such a worthwhile organization.”

For the 20th consecutive year, Cedar Point will also make a donation of more than $800 to the Northwest Ohio Aluminum Cans for Burned Children Fund of the Burn Care and Reconstructive Center at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo.

Aluminum Cans for Burned Children is a special recycling program conducted by northwest Ohio firefighters and area businesses.  Money earned from recycling aluminum beverage cans helps purchase non-medical items and services not covered by insurance that are essential to each patient’s recovery.  The fund is also used to provide burn prevention education programs for children throughout northwest Ohio and helps send recovering burn survivors to a regional summer camp designed specifically for burned children between the ages of 6-18.

Throughout the summer, Cedar Point collected and recycled all of the aluminum cans that were redeemed during promotional events held at the park.  Since 1989, Cedar Point has donated more than $30,000 from the recycling program.