| Pigeon
Forge, TN – April 2015 / Newsmaker Alert / Pigeon
Forge, Tenn., a long-time advocate for family vacations, is looking
for one special student who will win a complete family vacation and $5,000
for his or her school.
The Pigeon
Forge Super Students promotion asks parents, teachers and friends to
nominate students ages 8-14 who stand out by setting good examples and
going the extra mile to benefit others.
“We have no preconceived
notion of what makes a winner. Perhaps it’s a child who mentors peers,
perhaps it’s one who created a recycling program, perhaps it’s one who
is the glue that holds a family together. That’s the fun of this,” said
Leon Downey, executive director of the Pigeon
Forge Department of Tourism.
Online nominations will be
accepted through May 3 at PFSuperStudent.com.
Nominators must be at least 18 years old.
“We’re challenging nominators
to explain a child’s special behavior carefully and briefly. There’s a
100-word cap on the supporting message,” Downey said.
A panel of judges will evaluate
the entries to select a top winner and four other winners.
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The top winner will earn
a Pigeon Forge vacation for his or her immediate family that includes lodging,
meals and admission to attractions such as Dollywood, the Lumberjack Feud
and the Titanic Museum Attraction.
That student’s school will
receive an unrestricted gift of $5,000.
The other four winners will
receive family passes to approximately 20 of Pigeon Forge’s most popular
attractions, and their schools will receive $1,000.
“We are quite aware that
every school could use extra cash for many, many purposes. We want the
Super Students’ good works to have a direct impact on their schools,” Downey
said.
Pigeon Forge has a long record
of advocating for family vacations and organizing activities that have
rewarded families.
It once gave away a tanker
truckload of gasoline during a fuel shortage crisis, it saluted a military
family prior to the dad’s deployment to Afghanistan with a vacation that
included meeting Dolly Parton and it once organized a family’s first-ever
vacation.
Pigeon Forge is a gateway
city to Great Smoky Mountains National Park and home of approximately 80
visitor attractions, more than a dozen theaters and scores of restaurants
and shops.
“Providing a family-friendly
destination is our goal. We want the Pigeon Forge SuperStudents promotion
to reward some very special young people, their families and their schools,”
Downey said.
More than 10 million people
a year visit Pigeon Forge, and more than 2 million of them stay over night
in the 14,000 hotel and motel rooms, cabins, condos and campground site
in the city.
Visitor information about
Pigeon Forge is available at MyPigeonForge.com
and 800-251-9100.
Contact:
Tom
Adkinson, APR
for Pigeon Forge Department
of Tourism
615-341-8796 |
