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Maxine was the big winner of the Save Money Market Basket Giveaway.
There was a huge crowd that gathered outside Save Money Market on Wednesday, Dec. 21 at 6 p.m. The parking lot was full of excited Superior residents, anxious to see who would win in the Save Money Market Grocery Basket Giveaway. All winners had to be present to win. The big prize was a grocery basket crammed full of everything you could need for a holiday meal and more – ham, chips, breakfast cereals, cookies, pancake mix. There was a second basket full of health and beauty products. But it wasn’t just the baskets being given away—little mystery gifts of shampoo and house hold products were raffled off. And towards the end of the event bigger items were won: two coffee pots, a toaster oven and a crock pot.
The giveaway was run by Ruben Maldonado. Ruben arranged this giveaway in partnership with Save Money Market and the Hing family to give back to the community. Ruben also got help for the event from the local Frito Lay and Budweiser Representatives.
Ruben is from Superior. In 2001 he became very ill and almost died when he came down with meningitis. After his recovery, Ruben decided to start giving back. Ruben works at the Conoco Good 2 Go gas station and normally does some giveaways there for the kids during the holiday, but this year he decided to do something bigger. He came up with the idea of the basket giveaway because he wanted to help out a whole family during the holidays.
Besides working at the gas station, Ruben also works part time at Save Money Market. Ruben says, “The Hings have done a lot for me this year and it’s even more of a reason I wanted to use their facility.”
The big winner of the night was Maxine who works as the driver/assistant at the Superior Senior Center. She rolled away with the grocery cart full of food for the holidays.
Check out the CopperArea Facebook page for Video of the whole event.
Kara won the toaster oven.
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