Officials with the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce, earlier this week, announced the winner of this year’s “Scrooge” contest. Once all the point were totaled, the winner was determined to be Brian Ruge, Manager at Brown’s Shoe Fit. The “Scrooge” contest is an annual fund-raiser for the Atlantic Food Pantry. Ruge, along with Jon Martens, Tami Shellberg, and the team of Jeff and Heather Lundquist, had competed in this year’s Scrooge Contest, collecting cash and non-perishable food donations for the honor of being named Scrooge, and presiding over the annual Lighted Christmas parade down Chestnut Street.

Points were awarded for cash and non-perishable food items. On Tuesday, it was announced Ruge amassed 56,659 points. Team Lundquist came in second with 23,716 points. Martens had a total of 21,580 points and Shellberg had a total of 17,200 points.

A record amount of cash, $23,348.10 was donated this year and 2,415 food items were collected. A good chunk of the funds, officials said, came from Duke Rentals and Deter Motor Company. Hy-Vee donated 25 turkeys, along with five pounds of potatoes, two canned vegetables and a pie with each turkey to the Atlantic Food Pantry, and 25 turkeys and the fixings to the Mobile Food Pantry.