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Vote and Help Town Center Park Get a $100,000 Grant!

Santee's premiere community park is rising in the ranks in a contest to win serious cash to improve the park, and they just need you to vote. It's up to #12!

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Help win a $25,000 to $100,000 grant by voting in the America is Your Park contest at LivePositively.com.

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Abut a month ago, when we started tracking this, Town Center Park was at #538 on the list. And, as of August 25, it is up to #12 on the list with about 132,000 votes!

The currently top ranked park, Oak Park, has over 2,625,000 votes, so Town Center needs to catch up!

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The contest is being put on this summer by Coca Cola to promote active, healthy living in American cities. The top vote getter will receive a $100,000 grant, second place $50,000 and third gets $25,000.

You can vote three ways, and vote as often as you'd like:

  1. By going here and simply voting for Town Center, which gives one vote.
  2. By going here and uploading a photo of the park, for five votes.
  3. Or, by going here and checking into Facebook while you are at the park, which is another five votes.

Town Center Park "includes , baseball, soccer and football fields, play grounds, walking trails, picnic areas, an , City of , the , and USA," according to the City of Santee website. You can check into Facebook at any of these spots.

“We’re asking people to be ‘digital’ by voting online for their favorite park and then get ‘physical’ by getting out and having fun this summer” said L. Celeste Bottorff, Vice President, Living Well, Coca-Cola North America. The grants will help restore, rebuild or enhance recreation areas in parks where people can play and be active.

People attending Santee's Family Fest on August 27 at Town Center Community Park are encouraged to check in and vote at the event.


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