Kids & Family
Contest Seeks First Leap Year Day Baby Announcement
The first person to post a birth announcement for a baby born on Feb. 29, 2012, on Yorkville, Oswego, Montgomery, and Naperville Patch will receive a $50 gift certificate to Target.
Bridgette Thurmond was the first “Leap Year Baby” of 1984 in the Chicago area, according to her profile on The Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies website.
She says that she still has the newspaper and the photograph of her and her mother, and she’s counting down the years until 2016, when both she and her daughter will be 8 years old.
With that spirit, Patch is looking for the first Leap Year Day Baby in our neck of the woods. So, we’re having a little contest.
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The first verified birth announcement posted on the Naperville, Yorkville, Oswego and Montgomery Patch sites announcing a baby born on Feb. 29, 2012, will receive a $50 gift card to Target. You have until Monday, March 5, to post the birth announcement, but the prize goes to the first announcement actually posted.
To recap:
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- Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
- To enter, post a birth announcement on Naperville Patch, Yorkville Patch, Oswego Patch or Montgomery Patch.
- All entries must be received by noon Eastern Time on Monday, March 5, 2012.
- You may enter once per baby.
- One winner will be selected, and the information in the announcement will be confirmed. The winner will receive a $50 Target gift card.
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Instructions for posting an announcement on Patch:
First, make sure you are a registered user of your Patch (if you aren't, click on Sign Up in the top right corner of the home page). Once you are logged in, scroll to the bottom of the home page and under Contribute on the right side, click "Announce something to everyone."
In the announcement template, fill out all the fields, and make sure you choose birth as the category. The fields with stars after them are mandatory, while the others are optional. When you are done, you can add photos and video of your graduate to make the post really special.
Then scroll to the bottom and click "Post my announcement." There you are!
If you have any trouble, contact Yorkville Patch Editor Jillian Duchnowski at jillian.duchnowski@patch.com or 630-390-0273.
