With today being the last day of January, Valentine’s Day will be here in just two weeks. As our longtime readers know, we, the folks at the Signal Tribune, are romantics at heart, and with us being such big fans of a flying cherub named Cupid (also the name of one of Santa’s reindeers) we love to give away lovey-dovey prizes in February.
Yes, today is the kick-off of our 19th Sweetheart Sweepstakes. With this promotion, our readers cut out entry coupons that appear during the next two weeks in the Signal Tribune and take them to any or all of the 18 participating advertisers to enter the drawings for our awesome prize packages. Check out pages 10 and 11 inside this issue for entry coupons, rules and prize list.
This year’s prizes are unbelievably generous, and I am grateful to the many local business owners who chose to participate by donating such beautiful items and services. It seems that our prize packages get better and better every year.
This year’s promotion will run today and next Friday. The last chance to enter will be Wednesday, Feb. 12 at noon. At that time, our staff members will pick up all the entry boxes. Once we have them in our hot little hands, we will take them to the office, count the entries, thoroughly mix them up, draw the winners and then contact those lucky folks by phone. The winners’ names will appear in our Feb. 14 Valentine’s Day issue.
Our goal in sponsoring the Sweetheart Sweepstakes is to encourage our readers to patronize local places of business. By cutting out and then dropping off the coupons in the “specially marked boxes or pink buckets” at participating businesses, it gives you an opportunity to visit those advertisers and familiarize yourselves with their goods or services. Our intention is to give our readers a fun reason to visit some local shops or restaurants they may have never visited before.
For those of you who plan to participate, please don’t just run in and toss your entry into the various boxes. Do take the time to look around and shop or dine at the establishment that so graciously helped sponsor the sweepstakes.
Keep in mind there are rules. You cannot enter by mail, fax or email; and don’t just drop your entry through the mail slot— it will be thrown away. You must go inside the business and drop your entry blank into the specially marked box or pink bucket.
Also, you may only enter once a day at each business. Do remember to put the right coupon into the right box, or you’ll be disqualified!
A big thanks goes out to all the folks who so generously donated for our contest. We appreciate your participation. Many of you have donated for all 19 years. You’re the greatest!
So, my dear readers, with a total of 18 prize packages this year, the odds are in your favor…so enter, and enter often. If you don’t enter, you can’t win!
Note: To Mother, my husband Steve, staff of the Signal Tribune and participating businesses— NO, for the 19th time— you cannot enter, so stop asking! And don’t think you can fool me with a phony name and cell phone number. After all, I am smarter than I look. Really, I am.
