United Community Bank donates $10k to Frazee-Vergas Public Schools for Hornet Pride Picnics

Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) – United Community Bank, with locations across the lakes area, donated $10,000 to Frazee-Vergas Public Schools last Friday from the proceeds of their weekly summer Hornet Pride Picnic series.

Every week during the summer, the bank hosted a free lunch with a suggested donation to benefit the athletics and arts departments at Frazee-Vergas Public Schools.

Brittany Wake, lead universal banker at UCB Frazee-Vergas, said, during each picnic, she saw the community come together to support their school and its programs, and the events wouldn’t have happened without the work from the coaches, players and other students pitching in to volunteer.

“Great, great community effort,” said Wake. “A lot of people coming in to support the athletics and fine arts programs at the high school. Had a lot of community people coming through and thanking not only the students and coaches for working them, but also the bank for supporting it. And then, all the local businesses around that made it possible.”

Wake said United Community Bank was proud to host the picnics for the school district because strong communities aren’t created overnight; they take a lot of work from local organizations, groups, businesses and people to make those communities strong and UCB was happy to play their small role.

“We just want to give back to the community the same way the community gives to us,” she said. “I know, as much as we are community based and as much as we support the community, it really is a two-way street with the community coming back and supporting us as well. So us putting on these events is great, but we also couldn’t do it without the community’s help behind it.”

The donation was presented to the school district during the Frazee/Park Rapids football game on Oct. 13.