OSAGE CITY—Three winners in the Christmas on Us promotion brought their winning tickets to The Osage County Herald-Chronicle office last week to pick up their $50 in scrip money. Gavin Smith and Janice Wright, of Osage City and Carol Self, Burlingame claimed three of the four prizes in the second week of the promotion. Six more $50 instant prizes remain up for grabs in upcoming issues as the countdown begins for the grand prize drawing for two $1,000 prizes, two $250 prizes and any unclaimed $50 prizes to be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20 in downtown Osage City.

Smith found the number that appeared on his ticket from Aunt Dee’s BP in the Jim’s Garage ad in the Dec. 4 issue of The Herald-Chronicle. He plans to use the scrip money for gas.

Wright found the number on the ticket she received from Jerry’s Thriftway in the Feltner Floors & Furniture ad. She plans to use the prize money at Jerry’s Thriftway.

Self found her number on the ticket received from T-N-T hidden in the Osage Building Materials ad. She plans to spend her scrip money at Radio Shack, T-N-T and the grocery store.

Winning ticket numbers for instant prizes are printed within the Christmas on Us ad in today’s newspaper. Match your number with the one in the paper and get $50 in scrip money instantly. These prizes must be claimed by Monday of each week at the newspaper.

For every $10 spent at “Christmas on Us” participating merchants, shoppers get a ticket. Those who don’t buy, or who are just looking, can get a free ticket each week by stopping by The Herald-Chronicle office, the Overbrook Library and the Carbondale Library. No purchase is necessary.

Be sure to attend the grand prize drawing at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, in the 500 block of Market Street in front of the Osage City Senior Center. Free donuts and drinks will be offered by The Herald-Chronicle staff in appreciation of merchants and local shoppers who have made the contest possible.

You must be present to win, and the scrip money is only good at participating merchants.