FRANKLIN, TN–With less than three weeks to go, time to purchase your early bird tickets is running out. Fewer than 4,200 tickets have been sold to win the St. Jude Dream Home® house built by Southern Land Company in the Westhaven Community! Reserve your ticket before April 17th to be entered to win the Early Bird prize; $2500 worth of groceries courtesy of Stites & Harbison!
Tickets are available at Nashville area Regions and AmSouth Bank locations, American Signature Furniture and the Westhaven Residents’ Club. For more information about the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway or to reserve a ticket with a major credit card, call 1-800-746-6713 or visit www.stjudedreamhome.org. Reserve your ticket before April 17th to be entered to win the Early Bird prize; $2500 worth of groceries courtesy of Stites & Harbison! "Stites & Harbison is very honored to be a part of the 2007 Dream Home team,” said Bryan Echols, an attorney in Stites & Harbison’s Franklin office. “Like the other participants, we have a long history of service to our community."
Organizers have set a limit of only 14,000 $100 tickets for this year’s giveaway, raising $1.4 million for St. Jude. Winners of the St. Jude Dream Home house and other prizes will be drawn during a live broadcast on WZTV Fox 17 Sunday, June 17th. In addition to the house, local sponsors have donated prizes for the give-away, including a 2006 Pontiac Coupe GTO, $1,000 gift card courtesy of The Factory at Franklin, his and her watches courtesy of Crown Jewelry, a custom Club Car golf car courtesy of Tennessee Golf Cars and Club Car Inc., bedroom set courtesy of American Signature Furniture and a host of other prizes. One in 500 entrants will win a prize!
Amy Grant and Vince Gill are the co-chairs for this year’s Dream Home giveaway. “Vince and I are excited about being involved in the Dream Home campaign,” said Amy Grant. “St. Jude is an amazing organization and Westhaven is a unique community. For the two to come together and provide a home for a family while raising money for St. Jude is a win/win for all.”
Westhaven is a Traditional Neighborhood Development located on Highway 96 West in Franklin (www.westhaventn.com). The 2007 $600,000 Dream Home is being constructed by SLC Homebuilding and marks the company’s third Dream Home to be raffled in the Nashville area. Proceeds will go directly to St. Jude to provide life-saving treatment for children stricken with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. “We are very proud to be the builder of the St. Jude Dream Home in Middle Tennessee,” said Chris Bove, EVP of Southern Land Homebuilding. “It’s a great honor to be working with Amy and Vince. We think that with their help, we can meet this goal and raise more money than ever before for the hospital.”
Stites & Harbison, PLLC, is a regional business and litigation firm with attorneys in Alexandria, Va.; Atlanta; Jeffersonville, Ind.; Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington, Ky.; Nashville and Franklin, Tenn.; and Washington, DC. Fifty-six Stites & Harbison lawyers are named in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, and nearly 70 percent of all members and counsel to the firm are listed as AV-rated in the current Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory®. The firm traces its origins to 1832.
Founded by Danny Thomas in 1962, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has treated more than 20,000 young cancer patients at no cost to their families and is the first institution established for the sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research into childhood catastrophic diseases.