LEOMINSTER -- Leominster Monopoly has been sent out to the printer and is due back in time to be sold during Leominster's annual Johnny Appleseed Festival in September.

"It turned into a great community event," Wendy VanVoorhis, co-chair of the advisory committee to the Leominster Education Foundation said of the fundraiser.

Only 1,000 copies of the "limited edition" game will be produced this year, VanVoorhis said, which can be purchased for $25.

"A version of Leominster Monopoly was produced in 1993, but more than half of the businesses on it are now out of business," VanVoorhis said.

For the 2007 version, the Leominster Education Foundation spent more than two months selling properties on the board to area retailers, restaurants, city departments and other businesses and individuals.

For Periscope Pools the choice of which property to buy seemed obvious to Store Manager Gary Hier.

"Water Works was a good match for our company," Hier said of the purchase. "We figured it was a good way to give back to the city. It does us a little good and the city a little good," Heir added.

The choice was just as obvious for the Leominster Police Association who purchased the "Go to Jail" square featuring a blue uniformed police officer blowing a whistle.

Also among the long list of those who donated to the game are Sen. Robert A. Antonioni (D-MA) who owns Baltic Avenue in the dark blue section of the board, and Leominster Rep. Jennifer Flanagan, owner of the orange Tennessee Avenue.

Proceeds from the sale of spaces on the boards and sales to residents benefit the Leominster Education Foundation and their mission to upgrade the technology in Leominster's schools.

"We're trying to buy mobile computer labs for the schools," Superintendent Nadine Binkley explained.

Each lab will consist of two carts with 12 or 14 laptop computers for each cart, she said.

The carts will also have a wireless hub so each laptop can access the Internet, a printer, a digital camera, a video camera and a projector.

"These mobile computer labs will allow teachers to turn any classroom into a wireless center," Binkley said.