Cedar Point Donates More Than $8,000 to Local Organizations

Every year when we go to Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio, I see people searching their pockets looking for lost money that most likely fell out during the roller coaster rides. It made me wonder what happens to the money that falls out and is dropped underneath the rides.

Since 1988, Cedar Point has collected and donated more than $177,000 from the Loose Change Fund to local organizations.
Each evening after the park closes, employees gather all the lost miscellaneous items, including money, that lies beneath the roller coaster rides throughout the entire park. The money is then put in their Loose Change Fund. This money is donated to those in need during the holiday season. This year, 2007, Cedar Point Amusement Park has donated more than $8,000 to local organizations.

One recipient of the Loose Change Fund is the Victory Temple Soup Kitchen in Sandusky, Ohio. They will be receiving $6,800. Cedar Point Amusement Park also donated two truckloads of kitchen hardware and food to the Victory Temple Soup Kitchen, totaling more than one ton of food and supplies.

During the season, aluminum cans were collected from recycling bins placed in employee break areas. Since 1989, Cedar Point Amusement Park has donated more than $28,000 from the recycling program. Cedar Point Amusement Park will also make a donation of more than $1,400 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 especially for burned children between the ages of 6-18.