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We want to wish everyone a very, very happy Christmas. We hope you will have many blessings in 2020.

We also want to thank you for your continued support over the past year and the past twenty years.

We could not do what we do within the community without the support of all our customers, friends, family, and the other local businesses in Plain City, West Jefferson, Mechanicsburg, and on Karl Road.

We will be open 9 am to 1 pm on Tuesday, Christmas Eve, at all the stores.

We will be closed on Wednesday, Christmas Day, but will re-open on Thursday, December 26, at 9 am.

If you need anything while we are closed, please call the Plain City after hours number: 614-873-0020.

Have a peaceful and blessed Christmas.

This year will mark the 24th Annual Christmas in the Park in Garrette Park in West Jefferson. The event will take place Friday, December 13 (5:30-11 pm), Saturday, December 14 (6-11 pm), and Sunday, December 15 (6-10 pm).

Christmas in the Park gets underway with the Opening Ceremonies at 5:45 pm on Friday evening when Santa arrives and turns on the park lights. Music will be performed by the West Jefferson High School Jazz Band and Chamber Choir.

Following Santa’s arrival, you can visit with him and stop by his workshop. There will also be carriage rides and concessions.

On Saturday, December 14, the Parade of Lights heads out at 5:30 pm from the American Legion and winds its way through town to Garrette Park.

For more information on the parade and how you can participate, go HERE.

There will be a Home Decorating Contest that will be judged the week of December 8-14. The winners will be announced on Sunday evening at 8:15 pm with cash prizes for the top three best decorated houses.

To find out more and see the full schedule of events, visit the Christmas in the Park web site HERE.

Donations are always needed, including donations of time as volunteers are essential to help on each night of the event and in preparation beforehand.

Monetary donations can be sent to: Christmas in the Park, PO Box 262, West Jefferson, OH 43162.

Christmas in the Park is an extension of the not for profit corporation, West Jefferson Community Association, and is comprised of volunteer citizens in the community.

Like Christmas in the Park on Facebook HERE.

Please join us this Saturday, December 7, for our Open House and Customer Appreciation evening from 5-8 pm during Christmas Under the Clock.

We will have lots of food and other goodies, plus seasonal music and discounts, including 30 percent off all non-prescription items.

Miller’s Olde Fashioned Ice Cream will be here serving ice cream treats to guests.

Christmas Under the Clock is again being sponsored this year by UPCO (Uptown Plain City Organization) and the Village of Plain City.

Participating open house locations will be giving away lots of prizes, gifts, and refreshments. The more open houses you visit, the more chances you have to win. Pick up a map at the first open house you visit to locate all of the other places holding open houses. There will also be a copy of the map posted on the Christmas Under the Clock Facebook page, so check it out before you head out for the evening.

Get around town safely by riding one of the shuttle vans running to Yoder’s Hardware and the Jefferson Avenue businesses, including us, between 5:30 and 8 pm, arriving and leaving every thirty minutes.

Wagon rides will take place in the Uptown leaving Lovejoy Plaza and traveling to Yoder’s Hardware to visit Santa.

Here at the drugstore, we will be giving away gift certificates to many local businesses. So stop in and sign up to win!

We’ll be raffling off $50 gift certificates for:

• Anchored Arrow Boutique
• Main Street Treasures
• Mike’s Pit Stop
• Plain City Computers
• Plain City Lanes
• Tique-Tock
• Willow & Twine
• Yoder’s True Value Hardware
• Yutzy’s Farm Market

Christmas Under the Clock actually gets under way at 5 pm with the Tree Lighting Ceremony in Bicentennial Park (the Flatiron between Chillicothe and Main Streets). There will be local carolers, Starlight Twirlers (baton twirlers), Santa, and much more entertainment at the Tree Lighting. The tree will be lit up by the Tree Lighting Pixies, winners of the Christmas Coloring Contest.

Once you’ve been dazzled by the tree lighting ceremony and entertainers, head over to the Daily Needs Assistance, DNA, 340 West Main Street, for a Christmas Craft Show. DNA will also have several child-friendly, interactive Christmas stations telling the Christmas story on the front lawn of the Vineyard and DNA Community Center.

Rock on Ice is back this year. They are being sponsored by The Middlefield Banking Company which is going in next door to Smileworks and the pharmacy. See Rock on Ice create ice masterpieces in Lovejoy Plaza.

On your way to see Santa, stop by the Plain City Library, 305 West Main Street, for live music with the bluegrass band Lafferty Pike and the Friends of the Library’s Books and Baubles Sale, which actually gets started at 5:30 pm on December 7 and continues through December 14 during library open times: Monday through  Thursday from 10 am-9 pm and Friday-Saturday from 10 am-6 pm (the Library is closed on Wednesday, December 11 for training). The sale will feature gift items, adult and children’s books, movies, music, and more. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Plain City Public Library who support library programming and improvements.

Lafferty Pike’s Christmas Around the World concert at the Library features a sparkling selection of carols from many countries. Listeners are invited to join a Mexican nativity pageant, tap their toes to jolly French airs, and ponder the coming Light of the World with Sweden’s Saint Lucia. Merry voices will meld with traditional instruments including harp, lute, mandolin, accordion, violin, and guitar in a colorful celebration of the season. The concert will begin at 6 pm.

Like the Library on Facebook HERE and keep up on all their events.

Carlisle Gifts will hold an Open House during Christmas Under the Clock. Receive a free gift with a purchase of $15 or more while supplies last. Additionally, beginning on  December 6 at 8 am and continuing through December 7 at 9 pm, you can:

• Find the Christmas Piggle for gift certificates, discounts or giveaways.
• Win Prize Drawings Every hour on the hour from 10 am to 8 pm.
• Win Vera Bradley bags, Noelle clothing or purses, and much more.
• Enjoy the Hot Chocolate Bar and Der Dutchman Refreshments.

For more information on the 18th Annual Christmas Under the Clock celebration, go HERE.

You can also find out more about what is going on by LIKING Christmas Under the Clock on Facebook HERE. You can also like UPCO’s Facebook page HERE.

While you can walk Main Street downtown, it is a little more tricky to get out to us on Route 42. Luckily, as mentioned previously, there will be van shuttles available to take people from Yoder’s Hardware up and down Jefferson Avenue (Route 42). Let the skilled Christmas Under the Clock volunteer drivers get you safely where you need to go.

There are 30.2 million small businesses in America, defined by the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy as a firm with fewer than 500 employees. This number does not seem so small to most people and that can be verified by the fact than 99.7% of businesses in America fall into that category.  But when we look closer, we see the true essence of what we believe small businesses are. Businesses that employ fewer than 100 workers accounted for 98.2% of businesses in America. Even further, businesses with fewer than 20 workers made up 89% of businesses in America.

Small businesses are responsible for the bulk of new job creation over the last 25 years!  From 1993 to 2016, 61.8% of new jobs were created within small businesses.  In 2015 alone, 1.9 million new jobs were created by small businesses with the majority (1.1 million) coming from businesses that employ fewer than 20 employees.

Unfortunately, despite the impact that small businesses can make on a community, only about half of small businesses survive beyond 5 years and only one-third survive beyond 10 years or longer. This is especially striking when you consider that small businesses employ 58.9 million people, around 47.5% of the country’s total workforce.

Taking all these things into account, we hope that you can see how essential your support for small businesses is for the success of the country. Small businesses truly are the backbone of our economy.

When you break down the data, you can see why it is essential for America to support its small businesses and this Saturday, November 30, is a great opportunity to do so; it is Small Business Saturday.

Small Business Saturday is an American shopping holiday held the Saturday after Thanksgiving every year in support of small businesses. It was first observed in 2010 in support of our small businesses in the face of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, shopping holidays that typically provide excess sales to large businesses.

Supporting local businesses allows you to keep that money in your community, grow the business, and potentially create more jobs for the people of your town, giving back to your community simply by shopping local.

Happy Druggist Pharmacy is proud to be a small business in West Jefferson providing care for its people.  Please consider stopping by our store on Saturday. We are open from 9AM-1PM.  We would love to discuss with you your prescription needs and see how we can serve your family during the holiday season. We are so very thankful for your support over the last three years. We look forward to continuing to grow and to care for this incredible community.

Please also support Plain City Druggist and Midwestern Compounding Pharmacy in Plain City this Saturday and Happy Druggist on Karl Road in Columbus.

It’s that time of year again. Time for your young artists to pull out their crayons and markers and enter the coloring contest to win a chance to be a “Tree lighting Pixie.”

Children 10 and under are eligible to enter the annual coloring contest. Winners will be chosen from three age groups: 5 and under, 6-8, and 9-10.

All winners must be available on Saturday, December 7 from 4:30 to 5:45 pm for the tree lighting ceremony during Christmas Under the Clock. Tree lighting pixies will turn on the switch to officially light the Plain City Christmas tree and get the holiday underway.

To download an official coloring contest entry form, please go HERE. Or print off the form at the bottom of this posting by clicking on it and then printing.

Coloring contest entry forms can also be picked up at Mainstreet Treasures, 150 West Main Street in Plain City.

Send your completed entry to: UPCO, PO Box 297, Plain City, OH 43064

All entries must be received by Tuesday, November 19.

Winners will be chosen by members of the Christmas Under the Clock committee.

For more information on Christmas Under the Clock, visit the Uptown Plain City Organization (UPCO) web site HERE.

Winners will be announced on the Uptown Plain City (UPCO) Facebook page and via their contact information provided on the entry form. Visit the UPCO Facebook page, HERE.

You can also find out more on the Christmas Under the Clock Facebook page HERE.

The rules for the coloring contest are below. The deadline to turn in the entry is Tuesday, November 19.