Where’s Waldo? Find Him for a Chance to Win!

Where’s Waldo?

Waldo will be hiding in more than a dozen downtown Champaign businesses. Find him and win prizes! Photo by Minta Herold

We’ve been asking ourselves that question for 25 years. To celebrate this milestone anniversary of the red-and-white striped sweater-wearing literary lurker, Jane Addams Book Shop in downtown Champaign is sponsoring a contest to find as many Waldos as possible between July 1st and 31st.

So, seriously, WHERE’S Waldo?

A special Waldo figure will be hidden in each the following stores, all of which are in the downtown Champaign area, during the month of July:

• Copasetic Consignments
• Aroma Cafe
• indi go Artist Co-op
• Christopher’s Fine Jewelry Design
• Champaign Surplus
• The News-Gazette
• Furniture Lounge
• Kessler Optical
• G-Mart Comics
• CV Lloyde
• Austin’s Sportswear
• Carrie’s
• Exile on Main Street
• Merry Ann’s Diner
• The Art Theater
• Orpheum Children’s Science Museum
• Dandelion Vintage and Used Clothing Store
• Skins N Tins
• Ten Thousand Villages
• Jane Addams Book Shop

Visit Jane Addams Book Shop if you’d like a special check-off sheet of the stores and their locations.

When your crew spots a Waldo in a store, let the clerk know and you will receive a card confirming your sighting. Collect these cards and turn them in ASAP — the first 100 spotters to turn in 8 slips to Jane Addams will receive a special Waldo button.

When you collect 16 cards, turn those in for a button AND to be entered into a drawing for a 6-book set of the Where’s Waldo? series and a lot of other great prizes.

And, plan to attend the Waldo Grand Celebration and prize drawing on July 31 at 6 p.m.!

See you on the hunt for Waldo…

Rachael McMillan just took part-time job number 5,482: teaching sixth- and seventh-grade history at Campus Middle School for girls. She also tutors at The Reading Group and serves as the education coordinator for Ten Thousand Villages, a fair trade retailer in downtown Champaign. She is totally in love with her Chambana life, which she shares with husband Scott, kindergartner Kate and first-grader Jack.