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April 9, 2002 |
Contact: Lisa Kulow
Patch Products, Inc.
1400 E. Inman Pkwy.
Beloit, WI 53511
(800) 524-4263 x 239
lisak@patchproducts.com
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Million Minute Family Challenge™
Winner Shares Prize for Charity
Beloit, Wis. -- Cheyenne, Wyo. resident Coleen Johnson is bringing the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile to town! Coleen was the top sweepstakes winner in the Million Minute Family Challenge, a nationwide event encouraging families to play a board game for at least 20 minutes. Coleen won a visit from the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile and is sharing her prize with her employer, Wal-Mart, to raise funds for the Children's Miracle Network (CMN). Coleen and the Wienermobile will be at Wal-Mart on Saturday, April 13 from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Attendees can get their picture taken with the Wienermobile for $1 per picture to benefit CMN.
Coleen, husband Eric, and children Gregory (9) and Janel (11) play games every Friday night. It was a natural for the family to participate in the Million Minute Family Challenge. "Blurt! is one of our favorite games," says Coleen. "When I found out we won a visit from the Wienermobile, I was excited because I've never seen it, but I wondered what to do with it. I thought it would be a good idea to use the visit to benefit children. As an associate at Wal-Mart, we often hold events to raise money for Children's Miracle Network, and I thought this would be a good fit. I discussed it with my kids, and they thought it would be a neat idea. I'm teaching my children to share."
 "Most people in Cheyenne haven't seen the Wienermobile, so it's neat and exciting for the community to see what it looks like, get their picture taken with it and create memories with their children while benefiting others," says Coleen.
About the Million Minute Family Challenge
The Million Minute Family Challenge is a national event that encourages interaction and communication among family and friends through playing board games. The goal was to encourage at least 1,000 families in each of the 50 states (that's 50,000 families) to play a board game together for 20 minutes or more (that's 1,000,000 minutes) leading up to National Game and Puzzle Week, November 18 - 24, the week of Thanksgiving. Participants logged their game-playing minutes at www.millionminute.com. The 2002 Million Minute Family Challenge is set for September - December.
About Patch Products
Patch Products, sponsor of the Million Minute Family Challenge, is a leading manufacturer and marketer of family entertainment products. Board games, card games, puzzles and foam sports toys are the core product lines with such top-selling brands as TriBond®, Blurt!®, Mad Gab®, Malarky®, PuzzlePatch® and Zoam® Light Tracker®. In addition, Patch Products has licensed games for PEOPLE Magazine, McDonald's®, *NSYNC, Backstreet® Boys™ and 98 Degrees.
About Oscar Mayer & the Wienermobile
Since it made its debut in 1936, on the streets of Chicago, Ill., the WIENERMOBILE has been a familiar site on the hot dog highways of the United States, bringing family fun to millions. The Oscar Mayer Division of Kraft Foods North America, the largest branded food company in North America, is headquartered in Madison, WI. The Oscar Mayer Division is the leading manufacturer of packaged luncheon meats, hot dogs, and LUNCHABLES® lunch combinations under the Oscar Mayer® and Louis Rich® names.
About Wal-Mart & Children's Miracle Network
Wal-Mart has been a corporate sponsor for Children's Miracle Network since 1988, donating more than $190 million to 170 children's hospitals that are members of the Children's Miracle Network. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Associates raised more than $31 million for CMN.
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Children's Miracle Network is an international non-profit organization dedicated to generating funds and awareness programs to benefit children treated at 170 children's hospitals throughout North America. Each year these non-profit hospitals treat more than 17 million children afflicted with diseases, injuries and birth defects of every kind.
Children's Miracle Network's hallmark is that 100 percent of locally generated donations stay in the community to benefit kids treated at the local Children's Miracle Network hospital.
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