Saturday, December 15, 2012
Did you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your local school district and $500 to pay your electric bills!
We’re launching our annual Deck the House Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America—the best “decked” house in the country—the one home so spectacularly decorated that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center’s. If this sounds like your Avon or Avon Lake house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16. Only residents of Patch towns are eligible to enter. We’ll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand prize winner. Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local school district. Our contest is right around the corner, so now’s the…
Friday, September 7, 2012
Get up to $50,000 of supplies for your school. Hurry, contest ends Sept. 14
Looking to help out your Avon or Avon Lake school district? Avery School Supplies will be giving away a total of 500,000 Box Tops for Education® coupons, $50,000 worth of durable Avery school supplies and $5,000 in gift cards to winning elementary schools. The top 5 vote-getting schools will receive: The 25 runner-up schools will each receive10,000 Box Tops for Education coupons. 10 random winners with more than 100 votes will receive 5,000 Box Tops for Education coupons. You can vote once per day per email address after signing up at givebacktoschools.avery.com. But hurry, the contest ends Sept. 14. Participating are from Avon (with links to voting sites): and Avon Lake: According to the contest website, Henry Elementary, in Franklin …
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Win a weekend for four at Great Wolf Lodge in Sandusky
Submissions are now closed for this contest. Is your little one a Little Fan with big team spirit? You know: The daughter who loves to get decked out in orange and brown. Or the son who's the rowdiest spectator at the high school game. We're inviting you to share your children's (ages 12 and under) best display of team spirit on Patch! Show off your kids in their baddest team logo clothes or their most colorful game day face paint. Is your child's bedroom decorated entirely in team colors? Or maybe you have a great game photo of your kids cheering on the home team. The team, sport or professional/amateur status doesn't matter: It could be your favorite pro or college team, the Heights High Tigers football squad or the Avon Eagles girls' …
Monday, July 25, 2011
People used their wit to come up with some fun submissions
Here are some of the other submissions for the "It's So Hot in Avon..." contest: From Rolland Bryar: "It's so hot in Avon that I wish someone would waterboard me." From Stephen Beard: "It's so hot in Avon, they're changing the city's name from AVON to NOVA. The joke being that a nova explosion occurs at around 20 million degrees kelvin --- pretty frickin' hot." Two from Grant McCarthy: "It's so hot in Avon, the ice cream man is handing out straws with all of his products!" And "It's so hot in Avon that the cacti are heading north in search of cooler temps!" From Becky Boden: "It's so hot in Avon, you could make bacon and eggs right on the sidewalk." From Tracy Boden: "It's so hot in Avon, Betty White and the girls are renaming the show …
Thanks to all who submitted!
Thanks for all the wonderful, witty and whimsical entries in the "How Hot is It?" contest! With the summer heat reaching near-record temperatures last week, we gave you a place to vent about the heat. People used everything from pop culture to food to news to make their point. And while there was some good-natured grousing, not one person wrote about missing winter. It was hard to choose a winner, but it had to be done. And the winner is... Maryjane Edgar! Her response to "It's so hot in Avon" was "My hot flashes cool me down." Simple, evocative and something many can relate to. Congratulations, Maryjane! You get a $25 Caribou Coffee gift card! Email me at melissa.hebert@patch.com and we can make arrangements to get you your prize. Thanks …
Friday, July 22, 2011
Winner gets a $25 Caribou gift card!
It's so hot in Avon. How hot is it? Put your wits to work on that question and you could win a $25 Caribou Coffee gift card! Start with "It's so hot in Avon ..." and finish the sentence. Nothing profane, please, in spite of how grouchy the heat's making you. The best response gets the gift card. Sign up at Avon Patch and post your submission in the comments, tweet your submission to @AvonOHPatch with the hashtag #howhotisit, post a reply on our Facebook page, or email your submission to melissa.hebert@patch.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Saturday. A smoothie or iced coffee would be a nice treat on a hot day. And, with temperatures expected to be way up in the 80s for the next week, you'll have plenty of chances to put the gift card to use!
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Friday, June 3, 2011
Students make winning poster to encourage recycling and being environmentally friendly.
One of Troy Intermediate School’s fifth-grade classes won an Earth Day competition and were rewarded with a rare tour of Ford's Ohio Assembly Plant June 1. Students in Gina Plow's class, Ola Abuhamdeh, Kate Balthaser, Macey Buchanan, Morgan Carlin, Bailey Crawford, Ian Harris, Ellie Lemanowicz, Faith Lengen, Katie Michlovic, Emily Nusbaum, Hailey Radcliffe, Grace Stevenson, Edgars York and Grace Zaubi, were all awarded certificates for helping with the poster. Plow said the students worked for days on the poster. The entire class toured the plant and heard a talk on sustainability. They were also treated to a pizza lunch and met plant manager Alex Maciag. More than 80 posters from classes in grades K- 8 in Avon Lake and …
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
City sponsoring contest to locate 6 stormwaters banners located at local businesses.
With the warmer weather comes the inevitable: Car washing, cleaning out the garage and basement. City Engineering Manager Joe Reitz knows it’s tempting to dump old gasoline, paint down the sewer in the street, or let the runoff from cleaning your car with harsh detergents flow down the drain. He’s hoping a scavenger hunt will help raise awareness that dumping in the storm sewers in streets will only result in polluted creeks, harming the wildlife that call them home. That same water will eventually drain into Lake Erie, harming fish and other creatures that call the great lake home. Reitz is using Avon Lake’s “AL the Alligator” to help residents get the message about managing the city’s valuable water resources, like Lake Erie, through …
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
MacKenzie Bates' logo will be used to represent the Environmental Affairs Advisory Board.
Four students were named finalists recently in a contest to create a logo for the Environmental Affairs Advisory Board (EAAB) with Avon Lake High School junior MacKenzie Bates’ logo selected as the winner. Bates' design will be used to represent the EAAB. The EAAB advisescity council on a number of environmental issues from cancer studies to deer population. Troy Intermediate School’s Lindsay Clemens earned second place. Also earning accolades were Erieview Elementary School’s Jackie Rush and Westview Elementary’s Caitlyn Hill. Bates said he gave consideration to how his suggestion would fit in with other city logos. “When I was starting, I thought of how other city logos and logos in general look,” he said. “I came to the conclusion …
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Carol Murphy
2:11 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Great way to offset the cost of your electric bill. Even better for your local school district. Have seen many decorated homes that could claim the prizes! more ›