CityScape Raises Approximately Three Thousand for Cream City Sign

CityScape raised approximately three thousand dollars in cash donations for the Cream City Sign last Friday.

Jackie Duncan is the Event Director for CityScape.

“Of the cash we have taken in forty-three hundred dollars. But now that doesn’t cover the expense of the tee shirts that we sold. We are hoping after the tee shirts and the little guy we hired to do balloons,” Duncan said. “We should clear over three thousand. But this does not include what the stores up and down the block said they would donate a percentage of their sales during that evening.”

Over the past five years, the city paid approximately 20 thousand dollars in maintenance and lighting for the sign, Duncan said.

“And this year we had already spent five thousand. We try to keep money in that account for repairs and we did not have any money available,” Duncan said. “So we decided to have a little fundraiser to let everyone know that we do maintain the sign and trying really hard to keep it lit and working properly. And right now it is lit more than it has been in thirty years.”

Duncan said the fundraiser did not have a specific funding goal.

“We were just wanting to make any amount. Any amount is helpful and we did do very well,” Duncan said. “We were blessed that it was during an opportunity when we could dunk the candidates. So that did help quite a bit. And then party source rentals was gracious enough to donate the jumpies and the dunking booth.”

Duncan said the next step for the sign would entail another fundraiser later in the year.

“We would like to have another one of those road closures, a little block party. Maybe in the fall, we will do this again,” Duncan said. “Since this was our first time to have this we know more now of what we need to do to build the road up with a few more jumpies. I don’t know there are a lot of areas we can go.”

CityScape created a GoFundMe for the Cream City sign for anyone who wants to donate.