Bomberger's Stores Inc., Lititz location, recently created its own mini football stadium as part of the Miracle Bucket Display Contest offered through the store's national affiliate, Ace. The annual contest, held in conjunction with the Ace Children's Miracle Network (CMN) Bucket Sale, raises funds and awareness for CMN. The objective of the contest, which is open to all Ace retailers, is to build the most creative display utilizing the actual CMN buckets.

Ace choses three finalists, then the public votes for the winner among the three. Bomberger's learned that it was a finalist and after the public vote, the company finished second in the contest.

Bomberger's display features a "bucket football stadium" complete with a realistic scoreboard, press boxes, lighting, some fluffy "players" in position with their own built-in padding, and even the Goodyear Blimp getting the action from above. The fans cheering on from the bucket stadium seats are pictures of real children who have their own stories from CMN Hospitals. Their photos were provided to the store by CMN representatives with their permission to use them in this setting.

The national Ace representatives chose Bomberger's to be a finalist out of many entries from across the country and congratulated the store on their "beautiful" and "awesome" display and thanked the store for "putting so much thought" into the many details. The store wanted the display to not only represent the CMN kids directly but also the wider organization, so they hid special CMN statistics in the numbers of the "scoreboard."

By earning second place, a $5,000 donation from Ace was made to the store's local CMN hospital in Bomberger's name.