The Tyrone Merchants Association is actively involved in the upcoming holiday season. The members of the merchants association are holding the first annual \u2018Christmas Contest,\u2019 which is presently going on at participating local businesses in Tyrone.
\nThe merchants wanted to hold a game for the community to bring people downtown and to get people to come into each business. The game is a mix between a scavenger hunt and answering trivia questions.
\nRob Orr of Levine\u2019s Shoe Fly and Carol Anderson of JoyBeans are the two Tyrone Merchants Association members who organized the contest.
\nThe idea behind the contest is to draw people from the community to go into the participating businesses to gather the scavenger hunt items and to ask the business owner for the trivia question.
\nTo be eligible to win the contest a person must collect all the items from each merchant, find the answers to all the merchant trivia questions, and take your items, trivia answers, name and phone number to either JoyBeans or Levine\u2019s Shoe Fly before Dec. 21.
\nIf both the items and answers have been completed correctly, the person will be entered into a drawing to win $500 worth of prizes.
\nThe items and questions include:
\n\u2022 Warriors Mark Auto World-Warriors Mark Auto World folder–How many years does Dan Sprankle and Greg Hoover have in the car business?
\n\u2022 JoyBeans-5 coffee beans–What are the four basic ways we make coffee?
\n\u2022 Levine\u2019s Show Fly-shoe horn–When did Morris Levine first come to Tyrone?
\n\u2022 Scents of Life-bag of scent chips–Who are the two teams that we sponsor?
\n\u2022 O\u2019s Sew Shop-thread in a bag–What are the dimensions of a queen size quilt?
\n\u2022 Tyrone News Agency-Hallmark card–When is Monica Kost\u2019s birthday?
\n\u2022 Gardner\u2019s Candies-chocolate covered pretzels–How many years has Chet Geist given his wife a Valentine heart?
\n\u2022 LA Fitness-key holder–How many exercise balls are in the gym?
\n\u2022 Bakers Academy of Tae Kwon Do-pencil–What country did Tae Kwon Do originate?
\n\u2022 New Look Hair Salon-business card–What day did New Look open?
\n\u2022 Stultz and Brown Ford Mercury-sticker–Who is the Finance Manager at Stultz and Brown?
\n\u2022 Ace Hardware-magnet–What is the price on any stock water heater?
\nThe drawing to declare the winner of the Christmas Contest will take place by the Friday before Christmas. The winner will receive a gift basket with at least a $20 gift certificate from each business that is participating.
\nAnderson said that she hopes there is a large response from the community with participation in the contest, because the merchants association would like to continue the contest annually.
\n\u201cThe game sheets are at each participating merchant, so you can go into those businesses and pick up the rules sheet and game sheet,\u201d said Anderson. \u201cYou have to go to all of those businesses to get all the pieces if you want to be a winner.\u201d
\nAnderson stated that the contest by the merchants association ties in with the Yuletyme Tyrone festivities because the businesses are all trying to do something to get people downtown.
\n\u201cEvents like the Soup Tasting Contest is a great thing before the parade, so hopefully while people are downtown for the parade they\u2019ll go into the businesses and play the game as they\u2019re down here,\u201d Anderson said.
\nOnly businesses that are involved with the Tyrone Merchants Association are participating in the scavenger hunt and trivia contest.
\n\u201cI think that as people see the merchants association can be a help to each one of the small business owners, more people will join,\u201d said Anderson. \u201cIt would be nice if we would have 100 percent of the merchants involved in Tyrone.\u201d
\nThe Tyrone Merchants Association urges the people in the community of Tyrone to come downtown and participate in the first annual Christmas Contest for enjoyment and to support our local businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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