Patch, Local Businesses Give a Hand to Food Bank

We're donating ad space for every Directory listing claimed in March

Posted Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:18 am ET|Updated Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:25 pm ET

Strongsville Patch is happy to donate $100 in free ad space to the .

The donation was made possible by local businesses that "claimed" their listing in Strongsville Patch Directory.

Patch donated $5 in free ad space for every listing claimed in March.

A number of local businesses, including , , , , and , claimed their listings in March.

And special thanks to Strongsville's Recreation Director Bryan Bogre, who dropped what he was doing March 30 to claim the listings for the city's parks before the deadline.

Once a listing is claimed, a business can add or change information, upload photos and even run notices of special deals or sales.

Check it out, business owners -- it takes only about three minutes, start to finish, to claim your listing. The short video shows how.

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