Free family event this Sunday offered by CENT Credit Union in Mason City

MASON CITY – CENT Credit Union will offer a free family event open to the public on Sunday, July 16 featuring food, games, prizes, tours of Mason City police vehicles and Cerro Gordo County sheriff’s vehicles, and a visit from Mickey, Minnie, and a minion.

This will be the third year CENT has hosted a CENT-a-bration, but this year will mark the unveiling of a new theme for the credit union’s kid’s club savings program. CENT membership is comprised of employment groups including North Iowa health care workers, public employees including police, firefighters, and teachers, cement workers from Lehigh, and other “true heroes” of the community, and now CENT’s kid’s club will reflect that.  The program is being renamed the True Heroes Club, encouraging children throughout North Iowa to respect and honor these important community members while being money-smart.  Accounts for CENT’s youngest members offer a rate of 0.5% APY and are available to those 13 and under.  While the CENT-a-bration is an event marking the change to the True Heroes Club, it is free and open to the public.

Event Details:

True Heroes Club CENT-a-bration

Sunday, July 16

1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

The CENTer

25 West State Street

Mason City, IA

About CENT

Chartered on February 15, 1965, CENT Credit Union began as Mercy Family Credit Union.  On July 1st, 1998, City Employees Credit Union (chartered December 27th, 1930) merged into Mercy Family Credit Union to form Mercy-City Family Credit Union.  On February 1st, 2004, Lehigh Employees Credit Union (chartered October 6th, 1941) merged into Mercy-City-Family Credit Union to form Mercy-City-Lehigh Family Credit Union.  On November 1st, 2012, Government Employees Credit Union (chartered 1930) merged into the Mercy-City-Lehigh Family Credit Union to form MCLG Family Credit Union.  In January of 2015, to better unify the surviving credit unions, MCLG Family Credit Union changed its legal name to CENT Credit Union.  In 2015, Northwestern States Cement Employee Credit Union merged with CENT Credit Union.

CENT represents these Select Employee Groups:

• All health-related professionals, heath-related employees, incorporated and non-incorporated affiliates and organizations of the health care field, within a 65-mile radius of Mason City;
• Employees of the City of Mason City;
• Employees of the Lehigh Portland Cement Company;
• All public employees in Cerro Gordo County;
• Employees of the Federal Government, the United States Postal Service, the United States Parcel Service and the Federal Express Co., in Butler, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Hancock, Mitchell, Winnebago, Worth Counties in Iowa;
• Employees of the Iowa Department of Human Services, the Iowa DOT, Iowa State Patrol, the Iowa DNR and the Iowa Workforce Development in Cerro Gordo County;
• Employees of this Credit Union;
• Employees of Schukei Chevrolet;
• Employees of Mason City Business Systems;
• Employees of Woodharbor Custom Cabinetry;
• Employees of such small employee groups as may be approved from time to time by the Superintendent;
• Members of the Lehigh Employees Credit Union as of the date of merger, February 1st, 2004;
• Members of Northwestern States Cement Employee Credit Union as of the date of the 2015 merger;
• Member of the Government Employees Credit Union as of the date of merger, November 1st, 2012.
• Members of the City Employees Credit Union as of the date of merger, July 1st, 1998.
• Members of the Cerro Gordo Employees Credit Union as of the date of merger with City Employees Credit Union, June 16th, 1986;
• Including persons related to a primary member or members spouse such as parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren, sisters and brothers, great grandparents, great grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and such relatives of a deceased member;
• Family members of any of the above groups.  Family members shall include persons in the same household, and persons related to the member by the first, second, or third degree of consanguinity of affinity, including foster children, adoptive children, and such relatives of a deceased member.