Above / Decked out in his signature red, white and blue attire and black-rimmed glasses, Waldo created a scene near Chicago’s Union Station when the fictional character came out of hiding to board the Metra to Naperville. Until July 31, the storybook star is promoting the “shop locally” movement as he hides throughout the city’s independent business community to help educate all ages about the value of supporting local businesses whenever possible.
The final week of the Find Waldo Campaign is well underway in Naperville to spread the word about the array of independent businesses that create great places to shop, dine, bank and entertain while providing personalized service in support of the local economy.
Pick up a “Passport” (aka Bingo Card) at Anderson’s Bookshop in downtown Naperville, then find Waldo 12 times at participating businesses, collect Waldo chits, turn them into Anderson’s Bookshop, and enter the drawing to win prizes by July 31. It’s that simple.
In other words, every youngster needs to get 12 marks/stamps/initials in order to come back to Anderson’s Bookshop and get the first round of prizes ($1 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 designed with many fun “kid” prizes and gift certificates from participating independent businesses will be at 11AM Fri., Aug. 2, 2019, at Anderson’s Bookshop in downtown Naperville.
Updated list of current participating merchants thru July 31, 2019…
IndieBound Naperville meets next at 6PM Mon., Aug. 5, at Kreger’s…
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.
Take your family on the Waldo Tour de Independents in Naperville until the end of July.
Help create Waldo N.E.W.S. at shopping destinations north, east, west and south.
Thanks for supporting your local businesses every day all year long.
Support your local businesses and you’ll always live in a nice community. —Dan Casey of Casey’s Foods
And did you know?
Now into his final week, Waldo not only is making the rounds in Naperville, but news is spreading throughout the nation. It’s all part of Where’s Waldo? on Main Street, USA, a national campaign of Candlewick Press and the American Booksellers Association that was introduced to IndieBound Naperville via Anderson’s Bookshop in downtown Naperville.
With a coast-to-coast message to support local small businesses whenever possible, Waldo goes undercover to put into plain view that 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 live here and 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, when you and your youngsters visit local independents, you can take advantage of services, knowledge and expertise as you support their innovative entrepreneurship and small businesses.
You and your family also help create a thriving destination that just might happen to be your hometown.
So you see… no matter where you live in the world, it matters to shop locally.
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