Dockside Apparel, a screen printing and embroidery company in Syracuse, is gearing up for the holiday season with some new winter inventory that you can check out when you submit your Dockside Apparel Christmas Bucks entry form. On the left is Jess Chalk, shown with Pat Tranter, owner and operator of the company, both very happy to be participating in Christmas Bucks again this year. Photo by Caleigh Byrer.

By Caleigh Byrer
InkFreeNews

Temperatures are dropping and holiday morale is boosting just in time for The Papers Inc. annual promotion: Christmas Bucks.
Merchants from all over Kosciusko County participate in the campaign to lend a hand in alleviating Christmas shopping expenses.
This year’s Christmas Bucks promotion will be running from Wednesday, Oct. 26, to Monday, Nov. 21.
The combined winners will receive a total of $3,000 Christmas Bucks, redeemable at participating merchants through Friday, Dec. 31. The first place winner will be awarded $1,000 in Christmas Bucks, second and third place will each receive $500 and fourth through seventh places will each receive $250.
To try your luck at one of the seven cash-equivalent prizes, you can cut out an entry form found in this edition or from any of the participating merchants.
You just have to leave your name, address, contact information and the store you are participating through on one of the forms and leave it in the decorative Christmas Bucks box that will be on-site.
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 place of employment.
Some additional rules are: to be eligible to win you must be 16 years old or older, ballot stuffers will be disqualified and no mail-in coupons will be accepted.
The deadline to enter is at the close of business on Tuesday, Nov. 15.

Nicodemus Enterprises, a cards and gaming store in Warsaw, will be celebrating the holidays at their new location, 118 W. Market St. This is their second year participating in Christmas Bucks and they are happy to be a part of giving back to the community. Pictured from left are Mike and Diana Hadley, president and vice president, and Jeff Mast. Photo by Caleigh Byrer.

Merchants participating in this year’s Christmas Bucks:

Arby’s, Warsaw
Battery Tech LLC, Middlebury
Biryani Kitchen, Warsaw
Burkholder Country Store, Nappanee
Burnworth Zollars Automotive Group,
Ligonier, Nappanee
Brouwer’s Furniture, Warsaw
Casey’s Erosion and Seed Solutions, Goshen
Chubbie’s Pub-N-Grub, Syracuse
Creighton’s Crazy Egg and Coffee Bar, Warsaw
Daily Bread Market, Bremen
Dental Solutions, Warsaw
Dockside Gifts and Apparel, Syracuse
El Arriero, Warsaw
Grandma’s Pantry, Wakarusa
Hacienda, Warsaw
Heritage Fabrics, Nappanee
H&L Motors & Decorative Beginnings, Warsaw
JB’s Furniture, Warsaw
Jenkins Automotive,
Nappanee, Wakarusa, Ligonier, Milford
Millersburg Feeds, Millersburg
Millersburg Lumber Co., Inc., Millersburg
Miller’s Orchard, Nappanee
Monteith’s Best One, Goshen,
Nappanee, Syracuse, Wakarusa, Warsaw
NAPA Auto Parts, North Webster,
Syracuse, Warsaw
Neighborhood Fresh, North Webster, Syracuse
Nicodemus Enterprises, Warsaw
Old Time Pizza, New Paris
Papa John’s Pizza, Warsaw
Pedals & Paddles, North Webster
Pizza Hut, Warsaw
Penguin Point, Syracuse
Service Liquors, Warsaw
Simplify Tech, New Paris
Stacy’s, Leesburg
The Cave on the Square, Warsaw
The Diner, Warsaw
The Spectacle Shoppe Inc., Warsaw
Union Center Store, Nappanee
Zale Drugs, Warsaw