You could say bespectacled Waldo in the red and white striped shirt has returned to Naperville in support of taking local youngsters, welcomed visitors and their families on a “Tour de Independents” all during the month of July.
For 2019, the 32-year-old Waldo is hiding in 29 local businesses throughout Naperville. Anderson’s Bookshop has created a “Passport” that’s available at the service desk in the middle of its downtown Naperville store.
Find Waldo 12 times at participating IndieBound Naperville businesses
Simply find Waldo 12 times during July as you explore Naperville’s independent business community. Whenever possible, show friends, neighbors and the youngsters in your life the importance of keeping local dollars where they matter most, right in your hometown. It’s all part of Where’s Waldo? on Main Street, USA, a national campaign of Candlewick Press and the American Booksellers Association.
Thanks for taking the Tour de Independents whenever possible any day of the year in support of the local business community north, east, west, south and throughout downtown Naperville.
To display their independence and ingenuity this month, some participating IBN businesses are creating special Waldo attractions and promotions at their individual locations in addition to the one by IndieBound Naperville.
Get ready!
Pick up a “Passport” created by at Anderson’s Bookshop, at 123 W. Jefferson, then find the character 12 times, collect a signature from somebody who works at each of the businesses, turn them into Anderson’s Bookshop by July 31, and enter the drawing to win prizes that is set for Aug. 2. It’s that simple.
In other words, every player needs to get 12 marks/stamps/initials in order to come back to Anderson’s Bookshop and get the first round of prizes ($2 Book Bucks and a button) and be entered to win some of the other great prizes, explained Ginny Wehrli-Hemmeter, Events and Publicity, for Anderson’s.
The raffle drawing will be at 11AM Fri., Aug. 2, at Anderson’s Bookshop in downtown Naperville.
Think red & IndieBound Naperville
For more information about IndieBound Naperville and the shop locally movement, visit www.indieboundnaperville.org.
Look for that bright red sign in shop windows and put your money where your heart is, right here in your hometown.
Thanks for shopping, dining, banking & entertaining locally whenever possible
When you shop locally, you keep dollars in the local economy. You embrace what makes the city unique. You help create jobs for people who also will shop here. You help the environment.
You also nurture your hometown charities. You conserve local tax dollars for local revenue. You help create more choices in shopping plazas.
Furthermore, you took advantage of services, knowledge and expertise. You invested in support of entrepreneurship. You helped create a thriving destination.
So you see… no matter where in the world you live, it matters to shop locally. Thanks again!
