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Enter to WIN 1 of 3 $20 Gift Cards to a Local Business of Your Choice

Nominate YOUR favorite local businesses In Our Gold Daisy Awards!

May 8, 2017

THANK YOU to all our subscribers who have taken the time to nominate their favorite local businesses for our very first Macaroni Kid Wilkes-Barre Gold Awards! Congratulations to the winner of our first $20 Gift Card to the local business of their choice, Misty Coffelt!!

You can earn a chance to win next week's drawing, simply by nominating your favorite local businesses for our very first  Macaroni Kid Wilkes-Barre Gold Daisy Awards! Everyone who has nominated is already entered into next week's drawing, but feel free to add more businesses to your nomination if you'd like. Please remember: all nominated businesses should be located in the Macaroni Kid Wilkes-Barre territory.  We cover from route 29 to the Lackawanna River, out to Harveys Lake and everything in between.  

Throughout the year, Macaroni Kid brings you the scoop. Now it is YOUR turn to tell us YOUR family’s top go-to choices to enrich, entertain, and EXHAUST your kids. We want to know about the businesses that just plain make your life easier as a parent! Let’s make this a FUN way to highlight the wonderful local businesses that make the Wilkes-Barre and surrounding areas a fabulous place to live, shop, eat, and play!

How Do You Get Started? 
From now through May 22, 2017, simply nominate your favorite businesses! Nominate as many or as few businesses as you would like. Businesses must be locally owned and operated in the Macaroni Kid Wilkes-Barre territory.  We cover from Hanover Township to the Lackawanna River, out to Harveys Lake and everything in between.  ONLY ONE submission per email address please; you must be a subscriber to the newsletter to nominate. You can subscribe HERE.  The top 5 businesses in each category will move on to the voting stage.  

CLICK HERE to start NOMINATING!


What's In It For You?

Nominate your favorites (at least 10 categories) and you will be entered for a chance to win one of three $20 gift cards to a local business of your choice, compliments of Macaroni Kid Wilkes-Barre. We will be drawing a winner every week during the nomination process and one at the end of the voting process! 

What's In It For The Businesses?

We will announce the winners of each category in an upcoming issue on June 26, 2017. The winning business in each category will receive free placement in our Business Directory for yearlong recognition on our Macaroni Kid website, a 2017 Macaroni Kid Gold Daisy Awards certificate to display at their place of business, and the honor of knowing that local Luzerne County families think they are the greatest! Are you a business owner? Feel free to promote this contest to your loyal customers on your own customer lists, website, and social media!


CLICK HERE to start NOMINATING!


If you are a local business and would like more information on this award program (need our badge?) or how you can advertise with Macaroni Kid, please feel free to contact me at karendagostino@macaronikid.com.

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RULES: Only one submission per email address. The nomination period will run from May 8, 2017, through May 22, 2017. The voting period will run from May 29, 2017, through June 19, 2017. All eligible persons nominating and voting in the 2017 Macaroni Kid Wilkes-Barre Gold Daisy Awards will be entered to win one of three $20 gift cards to the local business of their choice. Drawings for gift cards will take place each week (2) of the nomination process and after the voting process (1). Winners will be selected from all eligible entries using Random.org. Winners will be notified by email and will have 48 hours to claim the prize. You MUST be a subscriber and over 18 to nominate and vote. If you are not a subscriber and enter the contest, you will be automatically subscribed. See complete Official Sweepstakes Rules.


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