Register for Cardboard City

PALMER — Register now to participate in this year’s Cardboard City fundraiser at the Alaska State Fairgrounds.

Family Promise Mat-Su’s annual Cardboard City event begins at 5 p.m., July 20 and continues through the night with music, contests and prizes, soup kitchen food, outreach information, homeless education, testimonials and a sleepover in cardboard boxes. The fundraiser ends at 8 a.m. July 21. Collect pledges and spend the night in a cardboard box at the fairgrounds for a good cause.

Pre-register at familypromisematsu.org and receive your own collector’s button.

Here is this year’s schedule of events:

• 5 p.m., set up/decorate your boxes.

• 6 p.m., soup/bread line.

• 6 to 7 p.m., testimonials.

• 6 to 8 p.m., Wildcat Trio.

• 8 to 9 p.m., Julia and musician friends Alex and Grace.

• 9 p.m., box judging/prizes.

• Sing-a-longs.

• Coffee all night/sleep in boxes.

• 7 a.m., donuts and hot chocolate/coffee.

• 8 a.m., must be cleared off the fairgrounds.

For more information or to register, call 357-6160 or email promise@mtaonline.net.