The four winners of the Lacombe and District Chamber of Commerce Passport to Christmas were announced this morning.

Over 7,000 passports were turned in with $2.15 million dollars spent in the community.

Helen Peck with the Chamber says that's almost double the amount of money spent last year.

“It’s just really exciting to see these numbers come back. We’ve just had so many people shopping local and exploring those 64 businesses that we had participate. It’s been fantastic.”

Peck adds they also had five businesses from Bentley participate this year and says the response was overwhelming for them as well.