{"id":56723,"date":"2016-12-13T07:33:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T13:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=56723"},"modified":"2016-12-14T08:48:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:48:30","slug":"unique-christmas-sweepstake-blesses-winner-and-local-branson-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2016\/12\/13\/unique-christmas-sweepstake-blesses-winner-and-local-branson-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Christmas Sweepstake blesses winner and local Branson charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"161212When Mrs. Onyinye Elochukwu, of Sacramento, California, went to open her email on the morning of December 12, she certainly didn\u2019t expect to find out that she had won Branson Tourism Center\u2019s 2016 Ozark Mountain Christmas Sweepstakes<\/em>. She said, \u201cWhen I opened my email and found out that I had won I was so excited! I read it twice before I even grasped that I had won.\u201d<\/p>\n

Onyinye, a stay at home mom taking care of a two-and-a-half-year-old son, entered the contest through Facebook and really didn\u2019t think she had a chance to win. Now that she\u2019s won, she said, \u201cI\u2019m so grateful. It couldn\u2019t have come at a better time; what a wonderful Christmas gift!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo us at the Branson Tourism Center, Christmas is all about giving, so in keeping with that spirit, we decided to have a special Christmas Sweepstake centered around the joy and spirit of Christmas giving,\u201d said Tammy Johnson, the Vice President | General Manager of the Branson Tourism Center. \u201cWe offer our congratulations to Mrs. Elochukwu and share her excitement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson also points out that another important element of the Sweepstake was that the Winner was empowered to brighten the Christmas of a local Branson charity by designating it, from those listed, to receive a gift of $500.00 from the Branson Tourism Center. Onyinye, who has never visited Branson, but hopes to do so someday, selected the American Red Cross of Southern Missouri because she is more familiar with the Red Cross saying,\u201d I see what they do on TV, on-line, and in social media and I like what they do to help people in times of need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stacy Burks, Executive Director of the American Red Cross of Southern Missouri said, \u201cWe\u2019re so grateful to Mrs. Elochukwu and the Branson Tourism Center for thinking of the American Red Cross during this season of giving. Our volunteers are ready to go when disaster strikes whether home fire, flood, or tornado and this donation will help provide relief and help to community members during their time of need.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Mrs. Onyinye Elochukwu, of Sacramento, California, went to open her email on the morning of December 12, she certainly didn\u2019t expect to find out that she had won Branson Tourism Center\u2019s 2016 Ozark Mountain Christmas Sweepstakes<\/em>. She said, \u201cWhen I opened my email and found out that I had won I was so excited! I read it twice before I even grasped that I had won.\u201d<\/p>\n

Onyinye, a stay at home mom taking care of a two-and-a-half-year-old son, entered the contest through Facebook and really didn\u2019t think she had a chance to win. Now that she\u2019s won, she said, \u201cI\u2019m so grateful. It couldn\u2019t have come at a better time; what a wonderful Christmas gift!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo us at the Branson Tourism Center, Christmas is all about giving, so in keeping with that spirit, we decided to have a special Christmas Sweepstake centered around the joy and spirit of Christmas giving,\u201d said Tammy Johnson, the Vice President | General Manager of the Branson Tourism Center. \u201cWe offer our congratulations to Mrs. Elochukwu and share her excitement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson also points out that another important element of the Sweepstake was that the Winner was empowered to brighten the Christmas of a local Branson charity by designating it, from those listed, to receive a gift of $500.00 from the Branson Tourism Center. Onyinye, who has never visited Branson, but hopes to do so someday, selected the American Red Cross of Southern Missouri because she is more familiar with the Red Cross saying,\u201d I see what they do on TV, on-line, and in social media and I like what they do to help people in times of need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stacy Burks, Executive Director of the American Red Cross of Southern Missouri said, \u201cWe\u2019re so grateful to Mrs. Elochukwu and the Branson Tourism Center for thinking of the American Red Cross during this season of giving. Our volunteers are ready to go when disaster strikes whether home fire, flood, or tornado and this donation will help provide relief and help to community members during their time of need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Mrs. Onyinye Elochukwu, of Sacramento, California, went to open her email on the morning of December 12, she certainly didn\u2019t expect to find out that she had won Branson Tourism Center\u2019s 2016 Ozark Mountain Christmas Sweepstakes. She said, \u201cWhen I opened my email and found out that I had won I was so excited! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}