A Very Vintage Christmas Annual Christmas Cookie Tour of Inns Nets Thousands for Charities 4th

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Amish Country, OH – Recipes of Christmas past spiced up the 4th Annual Christmas Cookie Tour of
Inns during A Very Vintage Christmas event on December 4 and 5, 2011. Visitors from across Ohio
and adjoining states toured the Amish Country Lodging Council’s 4th Annual Tour, a two-day charity
event, which sold 1,200 tickets, and raised more than $13,000 net profits for recipients, Hospice
of Holmes County and the Love Center Food Pantry. In addition to benefiting charities, the event
awarded hospitality providers a stage to showcase their award-winning and unique properties.

Amish Country’s finest inns and bed and breakfasts prepared classic delights from the recipe book
Festive Favorites and served them up with 1940’s flare. Festive Favorites, a compilation of over 350
delectable cookie recipes, features classic treats bound by country proverbs. Festive Favorites editors
Char Kellogg and Fran Mast offered baking tips and a book signing at the Berlin Hotel and Suites.

The twelve inns showcased on this year’s tour were: the Barn Inn, Berlin Grande Hotel, Berlin
Hotel and Suites, Carlisle Inn Sugarcreek, Carlisle Inn Walnut Creek, Comfort Inn Millersburg,
Donna’s Premier Lodging, Guggisberg Swiss Inn, Hannah’s House Retreat, Hilltop Manor B&B, Hotel
Millersburg, and Zinck’s Inn.

Visitors on the tour enjoyed seeing how each inn incorporated the 1940’s theme. Vintage holiday
décor, Christmas trees dressed with tinsel, and Christmas cards from the 1940s decked the halls and
guestrooms of the inns. Nick Biggens from Cleveland Heights, who purchased tickets as a surprise for
his wife, said that when they walked into the first inn they were overcome with nostalgia. “Visiting the
inns was like reading a good storybook that you want to read again,” said Biggens following the tour.

Hospice of Holmes County and the Love Center Food Pantry will each receive a check of more than
$6,000. “Oh, the power of a cookie,” said Mark Rohrer, co-director of the Love Center with wife
Dorothy. “This contribution has come at the right time, when we are providing food to more and
more people who have fallen into hard times.”

The Amish Country Lodging Council, operating under the auspices of the Holmes County Chamber of
Commerce is dedicated to excellence in hospitality, and “embraces the concept of giving back to the
community,” stated Loretta Coblentz, chairperson. “The tour will continue to be an annual fundraiser
for highly valued charities. On behalf of our hospitality partners, supporting businesses, vendors, and
volunteers, we thank you for your contribution to this very worthy cause.”

A limited number of 1st edition copies of the Festive Favorites cookbook are still available
and can be purchased at the Holmes County Chamber of Commerce office or by visiting
www.christmascookietour.com.