Peterborough Downtown Holiday Shopping Passport Season Begins

You can now downtown with your seasonal Holiday Shopping Passport for your chance to win up to $3,000 Downtown Dollars. 

Starting Monday, November 9th, shop at nearly 150 downtown businesses with your Holiday Shopping Passport and get a stamp for every $10 you spend. When your passport is filled (20 stamps), complete the form and drop it off at a ballot box at one of the participating businesses. Each completed passport is a ballot for a draw to win downtown dollars.

“The Holiday Shopping Passports are always a favourite for our downtown shoppers,” says Terry Guiel, Executive Director of the Downtown Business Improvement Area. “It has been a difficult year for many people and many of our downtown businesses. The passports are a great way to reward people for shopping local this holiday season.”

Whitney Inacio, Mike Hall and Lindsay Barr show off the Downtown Dollars being given away to the winners of the Holiday Shopping Passport draws. (Photo courtesy DBIA)

Holiday Shopping Passport draws will be:

• December 2 — $500

• December 9 — $500

• December 16 — $500

• January 13 — $1,500

The DBIA and participating businesses are working to minimize physical contact with Holiday Shopping Passports. When getting your passport stamped, place it open on the counter of the business so that it can be stamped without being picked up by the business owner or employee.

Last year’s program saw shoppers stamp more than $2.3 million worth of local purchases on their Holiday Shopping Passports. 

In addition, a reminder that parking is free for two hours in downtown Peterborough from Black Friday (November 27th) through to the end of December, courtesy of the City of Peterborough.

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