American State Bank & Trust held its very first “Growing for Good” contest this spring and has announced the winner. The city of Macksville will receive a $5,000 prize to help improve its city park.

“The idea of the contest was to help improve a Kansas community,” stated bank CEO Greg Quarles. “We believe that the best way to be a community bank, is to be a part of the community. We live here and work here too, so Kansas communities are important to us.”

The contest was open to anyone in the state of Kansas to submit ideas for how they could improve their communities.

(Read more: Great Bend Post)