The St. Jude Dream Home, located in Southern Land Company’s Westhaven community in Franklin, will open for free tours on Saturday, May 17. The house will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. every Sunday, May 17 until June 15.

Visitors to the house can register free for a chance to win a $5,000 shopping spree with American Signature Furniture. A limited number of $100 tickets for a chance to win the $700,000 home, constructed by SLC Homebuilding, will also be available during free tours of the house.

The tour will begin on Friday, May 16, and end on Sunday May 18. On Friday, the tour will be open from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.; on Saturday from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.; and on Sunday from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Tickets for the tour will be $10 per person with all proceeds benefiting WAVES Inc., a 35-year-old non-profit agency that provides a wide range of support and services to adults and children with developmental disabilities in Williamson County. To learn more about WAVES Inc. please visit www.wavesinc.com.

Ford Custom Classic Homes, one of Southern Land Company’s premier builders, was named the 2008 “Favorite Home Builder” by the readers of Nashville House & Home & Garden magazine.

For 46 years, children with life-threatening illnesses have arrived at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, hoping for a cure. The hospital does its work quietly, day in and day out, not only finding new ways to treat diseases, such as leukemia, but also finding new methods to fund the treatments that insurance won't cover.

One of the most popular fundraisers for the hospital takes place this year in the Westhaven community of Franklin, where a $700,000 home will be raffled with virtually all proceeds going to fund lifesaving research at St. Jude.

Take a tour of seven private gardens in the Westhaven neighborhood Friday through May 18 with the third annual Courtyard Garden Tour.

And while you're in the neighborhood, stop in this year's St. Jude Dream Home, where tours open to the public that weekend as well.

Westhaven Town Center continues to expand as two new businesses: The Spectacle Shoppe and Townsend Academy, commit to the quaint and growing commercial village in the heart of one of Williamson county’s most successful communities; Westhaven.

Tickets for the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway are on sale now. Almost 5,000 tickets have already been sold to win the St. Jude Dream Home¨ house built by Southern Land Company in the Westhaven Community!

Tickets are available at Nashville area Regions 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.

This campaign is about doing something good. It's about looking cancer and other horrible diseases in the eye and staring them down. It's about sacrifice and the enlightenment that accompanies helping someone that you may never even know.

The Westhaven Residents Club will be used as a new voting precinct for more than 2,400 residents in western Franklin, including those who live in the Westhaven, Willow Springs and Franklin Green subdivisions.

With less than three weeks to go, time to purchase early bird tickets is running out to win the St. Jude Dream Home house built by Southern Land Company in the Westhaven community.

Almost 5,000 tickets have already been sold and those who reserve their ticket before April 15 will be entered to win the early bird prize of $2,500 worth of groceries courtesy of Stites & Harbison.