“Laurel Fest, Endless Mountain Music Festival, Hickory Fest, Where's Waldo--everything has been cancelled,” said Kevin Coolidge, owner of From My Shelf Books & Gifts at 7 East Avenue in Wellsboro. For seven straight years we’ve held ‘Where's Waldo’ in Wellsboro. Candlewick, the publisher cancelled this year’s July 1-31 Where’s Waldo and we can't do it without permission, but we can create a new event,” Coolidge said.
This July From My Shelf Books will hold "Where Are the Totally Ninja Raccoons." Twenty-four local businesses, those in downtown Wellsboro and surrounding areas, are invited to be Totally Ninja Raccoon hosts.
To be a "Totally Ninja Raccoon" location, businesses need to be open at least five days a week and provide a prize worth at least $10. Participating businesses will each get a cardboard "Totally Ninja Raccoon" figure to hide in their stores.
In July, searchers - youngsters and adults - will go to as many of the participating businesses as they can to look for the Totally Ninja Raccoons. Once a searcher finds them, someone at the business will stamp or sign the searcher’s passport.
Each Totally Ninja Raccoon searcher must turn in his/her passport to From My Shelf Books & Gifts by Friday, July 31. The bookstore will create a separate ticket with the searcher's name for each place he/she has found the raccoons and put all of those tickets in the bookstore’s prize jar.
Winners' names will be drawn from the prize jar during the wrap-up Totally Ninja Raccoon party at the bookstore on Saturday, Aug. 31. The more times a searcher’s name is in the bookstore’s jar based on the number of participating businesses he/she has visited in July, the higher that person’s chances are of winning a prize.
Businesses interested in being a "Where Are the Totally Ninja Raccoons" host are asked to call Kasey at From My Shelf Books & Gifts at 570-724-5793 soon.
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