Christmas Scrip loans up for first time in three years

The amount of Christmas Scrip loaned out last year is up by almost 10-percent after being down for three years in a row, according to Christmas Scrip Chairman Don Nevrivy, and the program remains a vital program to the Malta Merchants with Christmas programs.

“Finally, we got off the schneid,” said Nevrivy.

The total amount of Christmas Scrip loaned out in 2015 was $276,163, up from last year’s $254,410. Nevrivy said he wasn’t sure why the increase occurred, but thought it might have had something to do with merchants running deeper discounts earlier in the season.

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