WATCH: Local bank creates huge line of dominoes out of donated cereal boxes for food pantry
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RIGBY — A business created a long line of dominoes from donated cereal boxes for a food pantry, and it was an impressive display.
D.L. Evans Bank in Rigby put on a cereal drive for the Giving Cupboard, a food pantry in Jefferson County. The cereal drive started in September and just ended last week.
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The cereal drive drew interest when employees stacked them around the bank in a creative way, making giant towers with Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Waffle Crisp.
“We have had amazing support from the community. Just everybody around has seen what we have been doing and wanted to support the Giving Cupboard, and the community just rallied together. It’s been really cool,” said Danna Beckman, the branch manager at D.L. Evans Bank in Rigby.
On Monday morning, the bank delivered all of the cereal it had finished gathering to the Giving Cupboard. But staff wanted to go out with a bang, and so they did.
“It’s all about trying to create interest for the cause for the Giving Cupboard,” Beckman said.
Employees decided to create a domino around the entire office. It took them at least 45 minutes to set it all up.
“It was awesome! We had no idea it was going to work or not,” Beckman said, laughing. “We just showed up to work this morning and said, ‘OK, where are we going to start?’ There’s 13 of us, and everyone just started grabbing boxes out of the stacks and started lining them up.”
Watch the fun video in the video player above. You can hear employees cheering in the background with excitement.
“It’s a miracle that it worked!” Beckman said.
For the drive, the bank’s initial goal was gathering 500 donated boxes, but there was such a huge response from the community that the new goal became 1,200.
At the end of the drive, Beckman said they got 1,363 cereal boxes. 99% of the boxes were used in the line of dominoes.
After the domino went around the room and crashed to the floor for the big finale, everyone helped load the cereal boxes into a Giving Cupboard trailer.
Beckman says bank staff are grateful for the donations.
“We just want to thank the community for all their support and thank the Giving Cupboard for all that they do for the community. We wouldn’t be able to do this to help everybody if it weren’t for all of them,” she said.
