You can judge festive town windows and win prizes (From Dorset Echo)

You can judge festive town windows and win prizes

11:00am Saturday 21st November 2009

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VOTE for your favourite festive shop window in a new competition for Weymouth and Dorchester.

The Dorset Echo is holding the Christmas window display contest to lift festive spirits following the canvellation of the Victorian Shownight in Weymouth..

We have teamed up with traders’ groups, the Ta Dyo Adelphia restaurant in St Thomas Street, Weymouth, and the Thai Nakorn Restaurant in High West Street, Dorchester, for the extravaganza.

Readers are being invited to vote for their favourite festive shop or business window in separate competitions for each town.

Pictures of the displays will be printed in the Dorset Echo and readers will be invited to vote for their favourite.

Prizes such as meals, certificates and bottles of wine are up for grabs for readers who vote.

George Afedakis of the Weymouth Traders Group, part of the town’s chamber of commerce, said: “I want to say a very big thank-you to the Dorset Echo for helping set up this event.

“I’ve seen a lot of shops in the town have already begun decorating windows in time for Christmas and I’m very happy with that.

“We want to give a lot of colour to Weymouth over the Christmas period, especially after the Victorian Show Night was cancelled. I would like to see every shop window in the town filled with colour and light this Christmas.”

Dorchester Chamber of Commerce president Denise Addison also expressed her support for the competition.

She said: “The chamber supports anything that will help business to thrive and, of course, shop windows are the first point of call for most customers.

“Well-decorated windows should draw people in and makes the town look festive for the Christmas season in a thriving county town.”

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