Passport to Colfax offers prizes to local shoppers

Colfax Chamber of Commerce has debuted a “Passport to Colfax” campaign to encourage shopping in Colfax.

The passport allows those who shop locally to qualify for a drawing to win Colfax gift cards from the Chamber Tree which will be housed at The Center. This can be accomplished by collecting six stamps from local businesses by eating, shopping or receiving services locally.

Residents can pick up passport cards which have six spaces where businesses can apply a stamp after a transaction for goods or services. After collecting stamps in all six spaces, shoppers can take the passport card to Chamber office at 120 S. Main Street.

Gift cards will be awarded as prizes, with $150 total being awarded.

“It is just kind of a way for us to promote downtown businesses and get people to shop locally,” said Valoree Gregory, Colfax's Unified Executive Director.

The Colfax passport cards were distributed to participating businesses last Friday and deadline for submitting full passports will be Dec. 18. Cards must have the name of the entrant, phone number and e-mail address. Shoppers can enter multiple cards.

“I have already seen people going around with them,” Gregory told the Gazette Friday before she had finished distributing the cards at the participating businesses.

Gregory said that almost all food places and most shops have the cards. She added that some places may not have stamps, but at those places a signature is acceptable in lieu of a stamp.

Gregory said the drawing will be Dec. 18, but she is not sure of a time.

Participating businesses are Fonk's, Taco Time, Colfax Computer, The Hyde Out, Abundant Faith, Main Street Books, Sport Town, Palouse River Quilts, Cougar Graphics, Flowers and More..., The Blue Bird Shop, Rosauers, Wheatland Lanes, Subway, Zips, Westside Pizza, Top Notch, Hen House Chicks, Tick Klock, Sol Vallarta, Events on Main, the Daily Grind, Bliss, Ace and the Cougar Foodmart.