St. Jude Home Has TV Giveaway And Appearance By Lauren Alaina

Monday, June 11, 2012
The St. Jude Dream Home
The St. Jude Dream Home

Two weeks remain until the annual St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway takes place on June 24 beginning at noon, live on WRCB-TV. Of the 7,500 tickets available 3,849 have been sold but only one winner will become the owner of a three bedroom, two-and-a-half bath home in the Georgetown Bay subdivision in Ooltewah.

Special events during Father’s Day weekend on Saturday and Sunday include the chance to win a free TV while Dream Home visitors, courtesy of WUSY US-101, will enjoy an appearance by celebrity guest Lauren Alaina on Saturday at 4 p.m.

At the June 10 open house, more than 260 visitors stopped by to view the Dream Home and/or purchase a ticket between noon and 5 p.m. – meaning that a guest was welcomed to the Dream Home roughly a little past every minute of the open house.

Tour the Dream Home from noon to 5 p.m. on weekends through Sunday, noon to 9 p.m. from June 18-22, and 9 a.m.-9 p.m. on June 23.  

Register to win a $5,000 shopping spree at Ashley Furniture HomeStore just for touring the house – no purchase required.  

Dream Home tickets are $100 and include a chance to win 14 other prizes. Tickets can be purchased several ways: on site from ESA volunteers during Dream Home open house hours; online at www.dreamhome.org; call the 24-hour toll-free number 800.750-6962; through the mail via St. Jude direct mail pieces; Regions Bank; Gigi’s Cupcakes, and Ashley Furniture HomeStore.


The great room viewed from upstairs
The great room viewed from upstairs

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