While Garry Brewer wasn’t on hand for the major $5000 draw at 10am conducted by member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall (and wasn’t required to be), he and wife Sheree did manage to catch up with organisers a little later in the day to claim his cash card. Mr Brewer earned his entry by purchasing gardening material from Glen Industries, managing to turn dirt into cash.

He also nominated Gillian Watson for her good customer service in the transaction, earning Mrs Watson the $1000 customer service award.

The draws then went on to reward those shopping locally that day, with draws at 1pm, 2pm and 3pm from entries dated December 21 only. There was no need to jackpot the $1000 winnings – or even to set the stopwatch – with those named on the first entry drawn on hand to claim their cash card in each case.

The three winners were Adam McPhillips, Lyn Meehan and Peter Campbell, who coincidentally all won with a receipt from Schafer’s Newsagency, despite all the participating businesses represented in the entry barrel.

Neil Grennan (with the aid of his two sons Wade and Nate) was able to see what didn’t belong in all of the 28 shop windows participating in the Spot the Window competition, earning $50 Celtic Cash for his efforts. The Bee’s Knees took out best Christmas window display, with Zoe McAllister winning $50 Celtic Cash for being one of the nominees.

All Spend in Glen entries will now go to Glen Industries for staff to collate the statistics on the local sales represented by the shopping dockets, but organiser Nicole Schafer said the committee had received a lot of good feedback, both from participating businesses and from customers.

“People kept commenting that the streets have been busier, particularly on the Saturday, so the campaign was really working,” she said.

“Customers are really seeing (the campaign) and saying what a good thing it is, and that’s the tell-tale sign that it’s working.”