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On Saturday, April 21, Wise Brothers Sporting Goods will be holding a Grand Opening celebration at their location at 151 West Main Street in our happily expanding uptown area of Plain City. Mainstreet Treasures and the Plain City Historical Society will also be taking part in the festivities.

At 10 am, the celebration will begin with the official ribbon cutting. All regularly priced merchandise will be discounted by 10% for the Grand Opening. Free balloons will be provided by Mainstreet Treasures. There will also be special sidewalk sale prices on assorted items.

At 11 am, Pizza Villa will provide pizza for $.50 per slice. There will also be hot dogs and bottled water for $.25.

Wise Brothers Sporting Goods will specialize in new and used sporting goods and equipment–both buying and selling. So take your old sports items in and with the money you get, buy new items in the store!

Owners Duane and Kym Wise are happy to be part of the uptown Plain City business community and we are glad to see another business in our village.

Lamphao Johnson, our shopper extraordinaire for the out front section of the pharmacy, has purchased a lot of really neat stuff for holiday gift giving. This Saturday, December 3, during Christmas Under the Clock, you can get 25% off everything (except, of course, prescription medications and items being sold for local charities). We hope you’ll stop in and load up to ease the burden of your gift list.

One of the items Lamphao bought that made everyone laugh was a selection of door mats. Barb felt the one about photos of the grandkids fit her.

The mats are $15.98 each, but we think that is a bargain, because they say things you’d never dare say out loud (just let the door mat speak for you!).

While we have a small selection of gifts, don’t forget that Main Street Treasures has a ton of stuff, including Jonathan Alder clothing. Stop in there to stock up, too.

Of course, we’ll be featuring bottled pop out of our Coke cooler again this year. We’ll also have cookie goodies, coffee, and a prize raffle drawing to enter. In the raffle, ten lucky people will win $50 in cash, $25 gift cards to the drugstore and Lovejoy’s Market, $20 gift cards to Rex’s Marathon, Mike’s Pit Stop, Plain City Lanes and Pizza, Main Street Treasures, Yoder’s True Value Hardware, The Cheese House, and Yutzy’s Farm Market.

The ten winners will be picked at 7:30 pm and the winners will choose their prize from unmarked envelopes (who knows what you might get!). The first winner to show up gets first choice of envelopes. The $50 in cash will come in the form of $2 bills. As part of our shop local program, we’re asking the winner to spend those $2 bills around Plain City. We’ll be checking with local merchants in the coming weeks to see if they’ve noticed an influx of the bills in their cash registers.

Christmas Under the Clock will begin with the tree lighting down town at 5:00 pm. Our open house will get started at 5:30 pm. Don’t forget to stop out and enter the drawing for the $500 VISA gift card. The more open houses you visit, the greater your chances of winning the VISA card.

And if Lamphao has a “Go Away!” mat at the front door of the pharmacy–she is only kidding. We want you to come in and visit with us!

We want to wish everyone a peaceful and blessed Thanksgiving spent with people you love and cherish. Plain City Druggist will be closed on Thursday, November 24, to celebrate the holiday. If you have an emergency while the pharmacy is closed, please contact Joe by his pager at 614-240-8421.

The pharmacy will re-open normal hours, 9 am to 6 pm, on Black Friday, November 25 (which also happens to be Ann Murray’s birthday–make sure you wish her a happy day. Her birthday is often overshadowed by Thanksgiving).

Please also remember that Saturday, November 26, is Small Business Saturday. Support the drugstore and other local, small businesses by shopping in Plain City that day.

Christmas Under the Clock is always the first Saturday of December and this year the 10th annual celebration (can you believe it has been 10 years!?) falls on December 3 from 5-9 pm.

The tree lighting will take place at 5 pm at the center of town under the clock at the intersection of Main and Chillicothe Streets. There will carolers, the Jonathan Alder band, and an appearance by Santa at the tree lighting. The Tree Lighting Ambassadors, chosen from the coloring contest, will be the lucky ones who get to hit the switch and turn on the tree lights.

Additionally, gift baskets, holiday decorations, and other goodies will be auctioned off at 5:30 pm at the Plain City Auction House in the “Gift Baskets and More Auction.” Proceeds from this auction will go to the Plain City Food Pantry.

Santa will be available at 5:30 pm, also, at Yoder’s True Value Hardware Store. You can take a tractor or horse drawn wagon ride down to the hardware store to visit Santa.

Other businesses in town will feature open houses with food, special holiday shopping discounts, and prizes. The Plain City Public Library will hold a book sale and several church groups and organizations will be passing out food and drinks in Lovejoy Plaza.

Additionally, a live ice sculpting performance, Rock on Ice, by Plain City’s Greg Butauski will take place in Bicentennial Park (the Flatiron).

The prize drawing for the $500 VISA Gift Card will take place at 9 pm at The Plain City Historical Society, 111 West Main Street. Remember, the more open houses you visit, the more chances you have to win! Additionally, you can receive extra chances to win the gift card by bringing non-perishable items to the Plain City Food Pantry (156 W. Main Street). For each item you bring, you will receive an extra entry in the drawing.

Plain City Druggist will be taking part in the Christmas Under the Clock festivities with an open house that will begin at 5:30 pm after the tree lighting. Stop by for food, bottled pop from our old fashioned Coke cooler, and discounts on everything in the store (except prescription medications). We have a ton of great gift items out front this year thanks to Lamphao Johnson, shopper extraordinaire, who has stepped up and taken over with the gift merchandise.

Lamphao has really gotten into the holiday spirit and has decorated everything that is not moving–so watch out–if you stop to visit too long in the pharmacy, she might just tie you up in lights and bows!

Christmas Under the Clock is sponsored by the Uptown Plain City Organization (UPCO), the Plain City Business Association, and the Village of Plain City. You can find out more about Christmas Under the Clock by visiting the UPCO web site HERE.

To enlarge the flyer to the left so it can be printed out and hung up, click on it.

On Saturday, November 26, the 2nd Annual Small Business Saturday will be celebrated on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year. Show your support by shopping at a small and local business in your community.

To find out more, visit the Small Business Saturday web site HERE.

Like Small Business Saturday on Facebook HERE.

To go along with the idea of shopping local, the Union County Chamber of Commerce and the Uptown Marysville Business Association are offering a membership in their Uptown Marysville Merchant Discount Program. To become a member, simply complete the registration form below (click on it to make it larger to print out) and return it to the Union County Chamber of Commerce, 227 East Fifth Street, Marysville, Ohio 43040 along with a check for $25.  This membership will allow you to receive benefits and discounts at participating merchants throughout 2012. Once you are registered, you will receive your very own membership card to be used with merchants throughout Marysville.

To see the participating merchants, click on the page below. Savings are being offered at many shops and restaurants including Lambert Jewelers, Old Bag of Nails, Old Town Inn, and many, many more.

Shop Small. Shop Local. Support your Community!