Best Tennis Town Contest
This is a message from Dale Sumersille:
What is Best Tennis Town? Does your town or city have what it takes to be the Nation's Best Tennis Town? Tennis is played from coast to coast in small, rural towns, large, urban metro areas, and everywhere in-between. The United States Tennis Association wants to know if your community has what it takes to be named Best Tennis Town! The grand prize for the 2009 Best Tennis Town will receive the following:
* 2009 Best Tennis Town title and trophy
* First Place receives $100,000 to be used for community wide programming or facility enhancements that the winning entrant endorses, as approved by the USTA.; second place receives $50,000 and third place received $25,000. Places four through ten receive $2,000.
* The community will receive the 2009 Best Tennis Town award during the 2009 US Open, at a date to be determined.
* Second place receives $50,000 and third place received $25,000. Places four through ten receive $2,000.
The USTA's Best Tennis Town contest is looking for the community that best exemplifies the passion, excitement, community spirit and impact tennis brings to members of the community.
“OJAI NEEDS YOUR VOTE! Ojai has been entered into a Best Tennis Town Contest put on by the USTA and has been selected as one of the top ten towns in America. With a grand prize of $100,000- to be used towards facilities and programs, we now we need your vote to become the number one tennis town. Please go to www.besttennistown.com to vote, every valid email address equals one vote. Voting begins July 16 and ends July 26th. Please spread the word! For questions, please email crazyjmom@mac.com or sumersille@ci.ojai.ca.us
Thank you for your support!
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Comments (11)
Like who cares??
Comment #1 Posted by: violetrose | July 15, 2009 05:14 AM
I WILL VISIT THE SITE AGAIN
WHEN THE VOTING BEGINS
ON JULY 16TH!
Come on VioletRose, help get out the VOTE!
"First Place receives $100,000 to be used for community wide programming or facility enhancements that the winning entrant endorses, as approved by the USTA.; second place receives $50,000 and third place received $25,000. Places four through ten receive $2,000."
With such a long tennis history, Ojai deserves to win!
Comment #2 Posted by: Suza | July 15, 2009 07:18 AM
Every year the Ojai Tennis Tournament has been held here for the past 109 years. If you can't be supportive of a community activity then please don't be discouraging.
Comment #3 Posted by: Demitri | July 15, 2009 08:12 AM
Just received this e-mail from the City:
Hi all:
“OJAI NEEDS YOUR VOTE! Ojai has been selected as one of the top ten towns in America by the USTA. With a grand prize of $100,000- to be used towards facilities and programs, we now we need your vote to become the number one tennis town. Please go to www.besttennistown.com to vote, every valid email address equals one vote. Voting begins July 16 and ends July 26th. Please spread the word! For questions, please email crazyjmom@mac.com or sumersille@ci.ojai.ca.us
Please vote for Ojai as "Best Tennis Town". If you have multiple e-mail addresses, please use each one of them to vote! Voting period starts tomorrow, July 16.
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Katrina Rice Schmidt, AICP
City Planner, City of Ojai
Comment #4 Posted by: Suza | July 15, 2009 09:04 AM
Congratulations!
Comment #5 Posted by: Anonymous | July 15, 2009 10:08 AM
Congratulations!
Comment #6 Posted by: Anonymous | July 15, 2009 10:08 AM
I love tennis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSgUnKh4QPk
Comment #7 Posted by: Jock Doubleday | July 15, 2009 10:11 AM
I voted. it's very easy.
Comment #8 Posted by: Didj | July 16, 2009 01:09 AM
When I went to vote I clicked on the Ojai icon.
Then I saw an icon that said leave e-mail address
I entered my e-mail and clicked submit.
I thought I had voted but then realized I had only signed up for a newsletter.
So I clicked the Ojai icon again and read the page more carefully.
This time when I entered my e-mail my vote was confirmed.
But even with that mistake it was easy. Click on the link in the above article and VOTE!
Comment #9 Posted by: Suza | July 16, 2009 03:56 AM
Wow! Great video by Jill Cox, Tony Luboff and Rick Thompson! Thank you! (I love my town, too, even though I'm not a tennis freak!) Vote, then be sure to check your email and click (you vote will not be counted unless you follow through on the email they send you!) Thanks, for posting, Demitri!
Comment #10 Posted by: judy k | July 16, 2009 10:25 AM
By the way, you don't have to subscribe to anything to participate, just unclick the box that asks you to subscribe to the newsletter. Please encourange everyone you can to vote, this would be great not only for the tennis community, but Ojai's economy. Every valid email address is eligible, be sure to confirm via the email they send you back when you vote as others have noted.
Comment #11 Posted by: Tennis Nut | July 16, 2009 11:53 AM