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8 | December 5, 2019 | the mokena messenger news
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Contests
Already underway: Holiday Card Contest 2019
Bill Jones, Managing Editor
We hope you weren’t
sleeping on last week’s
Holiday Guide.
Oh? You were “busy”?
You “had some things”?
Well, fine. We hope you
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had a nice Thanksgiving
dinner. We hope more so
that everyone in your family
is still talking. And we
were crossing our fingers
that you scored that discount
television on Black
Friday.
Now, if we can have but
a moment of your time. In
that Holiday Guide, we
officially announced our
Holiday Card Contest for
2019.
That’s right. It’s off and
running.
Yes, right now. There’s
not a minute to waste.
We’re looking for your
custom and creative Christmas
cards, those loud and
proud year-end letters (we
also enjoy the ones that
make us laugh), pictures of
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team, that was one of the
coolest things,” McLaughlin
said of the parade.
They also touched on
how it felt the night before
as the clock hit zeroes.
“It was just surreal,”
Wilson said. “You just
think all the way back to
January and all the hard
work you’ve put in.”
Holiday Card Contest 2019 Prizes
A look at what you can win in this year’s Holiday
Card Contest
Best in Show
• Four $25 gift cards to Bonefish Grill, 15537 S.
LaGrange Road in Orland Park
• Four one-hour passes for racquetball/wallyball
at Silver Lake Country Club, 14700 S. 82nd Ave. in
Orland Park
• A $25 gift certificate for Tazza Italian Ristorante,
14065 S. Bell Road in Homer Glen
• $25 gift card for One Paper Place, 590 Bankview
Drive, Suite B, in Frankfort
• A certificate good for $5 off a purchase of $10 or
more at Pop’s Italian Beef & Sausage, 16600 W.
159th St. in Lockport
Funniest
• A $100 gift card to Urban Air Adventure Park,
19800 S. LaGrange Road in Mokena
• Four $10 gift certificates for The Barrel Club,
4910 W. 111th St. in Oak Lawn
• Two hours of free bowling for up to six people,
including shoe rentals, along with a pizza and
pitcher full of pop, at Laraway Lanes, 1009 West
Laraway Road in New Lenox
• Certificates for four free value baskets at
Culver’s, 18248 Sayre Ave. in Tinley Park
• A certificate good for $5 off a purchase of $10 or
more at Pop’s Italian Beef & Sausage, 16600 W.
159th St. in Lockport
your child’s first celebration,
artistic interpretations
of what the family would
look like if they were actually
happy together for
the holidays, your all-time
favorite Kwanzaa customs
or Hanukkah handwritten
blessings — whatever it is
you send to the people you
love to remind them you
care this time of year.
We want to see your
intricate paperwork. We
want to hear who got a
new job, how they’re
spending the money and
who is being left out (and
why, please). We want holiday
photos, be they riffs
on your favorite National
Lampoon movie or in the
true spirit of the holiday.
Whatever it is you do
to greet people for the
holidays (just the familyfriendly
stuff, please),
simply address these
things to Managing Editor
Bill Jones, and mail
them to 11516 W. 183rd
St. Unit SW Office Condo
3, Orland Park, IL, 60467.
Make sure the items somewhere
include a name and
a phone number at which
we can reach you, should
you happen to win the contest,
as well as your hometown.
We will accept submissions
through 5 p.m. Tuesday,
Dec. 24, because we,
too, wait to do things until
the last minute sometimes.
“You’re lost in emotion
almost,” McLaughlin added.
“You don’t know what
to do, because all of the
work that you put in has
finally like come to a point
and you have nothing other
to do than to celebrate with
the brothers you’ve grown
up with something you’ve
worked toward forever.”
As for how they felt this
team would rank in the
pantheon of East football
The entries must be received
(not postmarked)
Please see contest, 12
teams, they each pointed
to the team’s toughness.
“The defense putting up
a zero in a state championship
game is like truly unheard
of, especially with
the other games where
there was like 37 and 42
[points],” McLaughlin
said. “I definitely think our
grit was one of the biggest
things. ... Just the grit and
toughness that we had was
crazy.”