The team at Clayton’s Garden Center in North Webster is excited for ‘the PAPERS’ annual Christmas Bucks promotion to begin. It is one of several local businesses to drop off entries.
Shown in the front are owners, Judy and Ed Clayton, with store greeter, Fraiser. In the back are Brad and Jewels Clayton. Photo by Lauren Zeugner.

By Lauren Zeugner
Staff Writer

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY — Temperatures are dropping and holiday moral is boosting just in time for The Papers Inc.’s highly-anticipated, annual holiday promotion: Christmas Bucks.

Participating merchants from Kosciusko and Elkhart counties take part in the annual promotion to lend a hand in alleviating Christmas shopping expenses.

This year’s promotion runs from Wednesday, Oct. 29, through Nov. 12. The drawing will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25, in Milford.

There will be $3,000 in Christmas Bucks given away. First place is $1,000 in Christmas Bucks, second and third place will be $500 and fourth, fifth and sixth and seventh place will each receive $250.

Christmas Bucks are redeemable until Tuesday, Dec. 31.

This is the first time Owen’s Fresh Meat Market in Leesburg is participating in ‘the Papers’ Christmas Bucks promotion since the store opened earlier this year. As you can see, they really get into the holiday spirit.
Shown from left are Tori David, Michael Rauchenburg, Jette Bradley, Jill Cox, Owner Kristy Owens and Sam Burnworth. Photo by Lauren Zeugner.

To try your luck at one of the seven cash-equivalent prizes, you can cut out and fill in an entry form found in this edition or fill in a form from any of the participating merchants.

Put your name, address, contact information and the store you are participating through on one of the forms and leave it in the decorative box, which will be onsite.

You do not have to make a purchase nor do you have to be present to win. You can register each time you visit a participating store, but are allowed only one coupon per visit.

Employees and their immediate families are not eligible at their places of employment.

Some additional rules are: Must be 18 years or older to register, ballot stuffers will be disqualified and mail-in coupons will not be accepted.

Entry deadline is the close of business Wednesday, Nov. 19.

Participating

merchants are:

Ace Hardware – North Webster

Arby’s – North Detroit Street, Warsaw

Battery Tech LLC – Millersburg

Beef-a-roo – Warsaw

Brouwer’s Furniture – Warsaw

Biryani Kitchen – Warsaw

Burkholder Country Store – Nappanee

BZ Automotive Group – Ligonier

Casey’s Erosion & Seed Solutions – Goshen

Chubbie’s Pub-n-Grub -Syracuse

Clayton Garden Center – North Webster

Creighton’s Crazy Egg Cafe – Warsaw

Dental Solutions – Warsaw

Dockside Apparel and Gifts – Syracuse

Grandma’s Pantry – Wakarusa

H & L Motors & Decorative Beginnings – Warsaw

Heritage Fabrics – Nappanee

Hometown Pharmacy – Warsaw

HotWorx – Warsaw

JB’s Furniture – Warsaw

McHatton-Sadler Funeral Chapels – Warsaw

Millerburg Feeds – Millersburg

Millersburg Lumber Co., Inc. – Millersburg

NAPA Auto Parks – Warsaw, Syracuse,

North Webster

Neighborhood Fresh – Syracuse, North Webster

Oak & Alley Public House – Warsaw

Olympia Candy Kitchen – Goshen

Owens Fresh Meat Market – Leesburg

Papa John’s Pizza – Warsaw

Pine Valley Feeds – New Paris

Pizza Hut – Detroit Street, Lake Village

– Warsaw

Service Liquors – Warsaw

Simplify Tech – New Paris

Steuby’s Premium Dining & Cocktails – Leesburg

The Spectacle Shoppe Inc. – Warsaw

Woodling Tire – Syracuse