{"id":43205,"date":"2013-09-19T06:10:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T11:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=43205"},"modified":"2013-09-19T06:35:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T11:35:07","slug":"i-shop-downtown-prize-winners-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/09\/19\/i-shop-downtown-prize-winners-named\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Shop Downtown&#8217; prize winners named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Main Street Van Wert news<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Area residents who frequented their favorite Van Wert downtown shops or restaurants this summer likely saw the bright yellow \u201cI Shop Downtown\u201d customer cards at the register. Hopefully, shoppers participated in this downtown program as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Promotions Committee of Main Street Van Wert began this summer shopping promotion in May, and participating downtown stores stamped each customer card at the time of a purchase. After three purchases of $10 or more, completed cards were turned into the MSVW office to be entered into monthly drawings for gift certificates from downtown shops. The summer promotion ended August 31, with more than 1,200 cards distributed by the 39 participating stores and restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a great opportunity for business owners to join together to promote downtown Van Wert as a great place to shop,\u201d explained Dawn Cooper, owner of Rehab Fab and an active member of the Promotions Committee. \u201cWe heard so much positive feedback from customers who want to shop the downtown that they remember from years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people came from other towns much larger than ours just to shop here, and the chance to win prizes from participating businesses helped to make it fun to shop in our town,\u201d Cooper added.<\/p>\n<p>Main Street Van Wert would like to thank all of the downtown businesses that participated in this fun summer shopping campaign.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the revitalization efforts of Main Street Van Wert, to browse a full downtown business listing, or to find out ways to get involved, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MainStreetVanWert.org\">www.MainStreetVanWert.org<\/a> or call 419.238.6911.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43206\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/I-Shop-Downtown-prize-winners-9-2013.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43206 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"Shown receiving their downtown shopping prizes from MSVW President Denise Frey (left), MWVW Program Manager Adam Ries (second from left) and promotions member Dawn Cooper (right) are (from the left) Margaret Hipsley, Cheryl Stauffer, Rex Fortney, and Darlene Myers. (photo submitted)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/I-Shop-Downtown-prize-winners-9-2013.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shown receiving their downtown shopping prizes from MSVW President Denise Frey (left), MWVW Program Manager Adam Ries (second from left) and promotions member Dawn Cooper (right) are (from the left) Margaret Hipsley, Cheryl Stauffer, Rex Fortney, and Darlene Myers. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main Street Van Wert news Area residents who frequented their favorite Van Wert downtown shops or restaurants this summer likely saw the bright yellow \u201cI Shop Downtown\u201d customer cards at the register. Hopefully, shoppers participated in this downtown program as well. The Promotions Committee of Main Street Van Wert began this summer shopping promotion in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 00:25:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}