Best of the Blue Ridge - Vote Today on Your Choice!
Posted by Nancy Craun on Sun, Oct 16, 2011 @ 08:39 AM
Join Go Blue Ridge Travel and VOTE on the Best of the Blue Ridge Photography Naming Contest beginning October 17th.
Voting starts each week on Monday and ends on Sunday night. The photo with the most votes wins and winners will be chosen by raffle from this winner’s choice. Winners are announced on Monday and the next week is also posted. There will be five winners each week as well as 5 Grand Prize Winners.
WEEK ONE - OCT 17th WEEK TWO - OCT 24th WEEK THREE - OCT 31st
WEEK FOUR- Nov 7th WEEK FIVE - Nov 14th WEEK SIX - NOV 21ST
WEEK SEVEN - NOV 28TH WEEK EIGHT - DEC 5TH WEEK NINE - DEC 12TH
WEEK TEN - DEC 19TH
This contest runs for ten weeks with the grand finalist winners chosen on the tenth week. The goal of the contest is to brand the northern Blue Ridge Shenandoah Valley as a great place to visit, shop, dine and play or hold your corporate event or have your romantic wedding.
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Week One - October 17th - 24thbegins with two sets of Tasting Tickets from Breaux Vineyard and Wolf Gap Vineyard.
Thank you to the following sponsors for Weekly Prizes -
is a fine art and fine craft gallery in the beautiful Piedmont Virginia area. Featuring hand-made items from artisans in the U.S. including paintings, pottery, jewelry, glass work, fiber arts and more. A Primary Sponsor prizes will vary each week - Week One's choice is 'Two sets.jpg)
of boxed note cards by the Piedmont's premier landscape artist, Tom Neel.' One box includes 3 of each of 4 images of the Piedmont. The second box includes 10 images of a most popular painting of “Flower Cart”. Made in USA. (Value $33.00 )
,the former home of U.S. Senator and Virginia Governor Harry F. Byrd, Sr., was once a respite for U.S. Presidents and the Washington D.C. elite. After 13 years of careful restoration, Rosemont Manor and its park-like 60 acre grounds are now open to the public for overnight accommodations, afternoon teas, weddings and other special events. 
Located just 45 minutes outside of the beltway in the quiet haven of Berryville, VA, Rosemont is the perfect place to enjoy the best that the Blue Ridge has to offer. Their weekly prize is Free Afternoon Tea at Rosemont (value $44).
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is located in Downtown Winchester, Virginia. A Historic Wyndham Grand Hotel, the George Washington is a wedding-vacation destination in the Shenandoah Valley. Their weekly prize is a Gift Certificate to the Dancing Goat Restaurant in the hotel. Once you have enjoyed dinner, then come upstairs to the Half Note Lounge for after dinner drinks and great music. (value $25)
specializes in the new Calendar Girl Pre-Parties ideas. 
Weekly she is rotating a $25 Gift Certificate and a Frame A Name Gift.
Other Prizes include -
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is a premiere vacation timeshare outside of Harrisonburg, Virginia. From golfing, to skiing, to a huge inside Waterpark
, Massanutten offers something for all ages including great hiking paths and kayaking and canoeing on the Shenandoah River. The are offering an adult ticket covering the entrance fee to your choice of skiing, golfing, or their indoor Water Parks. (Value $66.00)
offering one of the Grand Prizes - We will help bring your pictures to life with the creation of a unique, one of a kind slideshow. Be it a wedding, class reunion, Sweet 16, birthday party or corporate event, we will take your pictures and, using music as a backdrop, give everyone in attendance a trip down memory lane. You will get the slide show as both a digital file and a DVD, which can be played through any DVD player. (Value $125.00)
is another great Pre-Party idea. 
Sponsoring the Best Nightlife Week, you will receive a Massage Mitten and Creamy Massage Oil. ($25 value).
This is just a Preliminary List of prizes being awarded each week of the contest. More prizes will be posted with the Grand Finale Prizes being posted as the Best of the Blue Ridge contest moves into the upcoming weeks. Give us your comments on What is the Best of the Blue Ridge?