ADVISORY/MoneyGram to Award $100,000 to Twin Cities Resident.

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ADVISORY...for Thursday (Aug. 29)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

                  Wins National Sweepstakes Top Prize

        WHAT: The annual MoneyGram sweepstakes top prize of $100,000
        will be awarded to a local Twin Cities resident for sending
        money to his mother in Honduras via MoneyGram. More than
        600,000 entries were entered in the MoneyGram nationwide
        sweepstakes. There will be music, food and promotional
        giveaways (as long as they last) at the presentation ceremony.

        WHO: Grand prize winner, Carlos F., 32, is a Brooklyn Center
        resident who works for a laundry company. A MoneyGram money
        transfer he sent this spring to his parents in Honduras from
        the Cub Foods in Brooklyn Center was selected as the
        sweepstakes winner. For security reasons, his full name and
        hometown in Honduras are not released. Carlos F. has elected
        to receive a lesser lump sum payment instead of annual
        payments.

        WHEN: Thursday, Aug. 29 at 11:00 a.m.

        WHERE: Cub Foods, 7555 West Broadway in Brooklyn Center.

        The check presentation ceremony will be set up in the parking
        lot at the Cub Foods where Carlos F. purchased the MoneyGram.