What Is Happening Today On Gather - Wednesday August 13 2008

 I hope each of you are having a wonderful week. It has been a tad chillier here this week. I would love to hear about your week thus far.

It   has been brought to my attention that many of you are having problems finding the Today post.  If you will click on the "explore" link at the top of any page-it will take you to the page where the Today On Gather icon can be found. It is way at the bottom of the page. Just click on that icon and you will find the Today post. If it is not the most current post, just click on my name and you will find the current page.

 Also the gather daily poll is found on that same page at the bottom. I hope this helps you to stay on top of things while you are at Gather.

WHO WON THE INVITE-A-THON TODAY

 Pam Johnston  has announced the first group of winners in the Invite-a-thon.  You just have  to go to her article and watch the video of them choosing the winners.

Today's winning invite-a-thon members are:

Jennifer H. (sweeetdestiny) and her friend Maxine H. (sweetmuffit77)

Teresa T (vision2win) and her friendHailey Licciardello (haileygirl)

Sue S. (rokusan) and her friend Dawn Morse (dawnee)

Holly K. (hmkoct5) and her friend Chris K. (zergdragoon)

Selene S. (seleneskye) and her friend Norm (normcowie)

Find out more about the Gather Invite-a-thon! 

Congratulations to all the winners.  Each winner will receive 500 Gather points.  Wonder who will win tomorrow. Will it be you?

Gather's 1^st ever Invite-a-thon

Don't forget about Gather's 1^st ever Invite-a-thon!  You can read more about that here. 

 Here is a quick summery:

Aug 4: Invite-a-thon begins

Aug 4- Aug 15: Official invitation period

Aug 11- Aug 15: Five friend pairs announced daily @ 5pm ET in the Gather Picks section of the Explore page. Points will be distributed to winners by 5pm ET the following day.

Aug 15 - Gather announces Grand Prize Winners @ 5:30pm ET

Aug 15: Invite-a-thon ends

So invite those friends and you could win big time.

Several of the following contests end this week.  So make sure you enter them if they sound like something you are interested in?

WHO WON THE TWO NIGHTS STAY AT WESTIN HOTEL

Now for the news that we have all been waiting for. Who won the two night stay at Westin Hotel?   And the winners are:

April H. will be staying at the Westin Arlington Gateway on August 16^th and 17^th.

Priscilla (wishing I was in Costa Rica) ~. will be staying at The Westin Stonebriar Resort on August 28^th and 29^th.

Congratulations to both of you. I am sure there are lots of Gather members who will take your place if you decide not to go. LOL To read more about this click here.

What is Your Child's Favorite School Subject? Win a Subscription to StudyJams! and CDs!

All you have to do is leave a comment in this article by  Stefanie Plum, Gather Partner Team .  Leave your comment by August 13^th. Gather will  be drawing one member to win a year long subscription to StudyJams! and three members to receive StudyJams! Karaoke CDs!

YOU COULD WIN A BOOK JUST BY MAKING SOMETHING WITH YOUR CHILD.

Nancy Ellwood has submitted a discussion titled Make a Glam Bag from Old Pants - Tell Us About Your Projects for a Chance to Win "Make It!"  Will you set aside an hour during your day to complete this project with your child? She gives the directions on how to make this really cool bag from your old jeans.  Post your pictures of it to Parenting.gather.com.

Tell us what craft projects you've made from clothes by Thursday, August 14th. We'll choose two members to receive a free copy of Make It! from DK Publishing. Post your comments in the comment area of Nancy's post.  

Who's Your Favorite Star of the 70s? Win a Free DVD!

Do you remember the wonderful shows of the 70's.  Whatever happened to those cool shows? For a chance to win a DVD, answer the following question in the comment field of  the article that can be found here.

Who is your favorite movie star from the 1970s?

Responses must be posted by August 15^th. Gather will randomly select five members to win a copy of Starsky and Hutch.

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE A $200. AMERICAN EXPRESS CARD!!

The dinner table is a place where special family moments may happen. What memorable moments do you recall from a meal you had with your family?

Tell  about a moment that matters to you! Your story could earn you a $200 AMEX gift card that could be used towards purchasing your next set of groceries - and in turn, more dinnertime moments! Click here for all the details!

All entries must be received by 11:59pm ET on August, 15, 2008. The Gather Editorial Team will choose the Grand Prize Winner, who will receive a $200 American Express Gift Card.

ARE YOU THE NEXT WINNER?

 Are you going to be the next winner? Don't forget that you can have a chance to win 1000 points until Aug 31. Free points is just like free money!  Have you joined the Relax group yet? You are going to love this offer. You can win 1000 points. Yep, you heard me right. They are going to be giving away 1000 points each week.  All you have to do is be a member of the Relax group.  Christine M. Team Gather  has written an article with more details in it. Click here to read the article. This group is owned by Westin Hotels & Resorts . So if you want more points, hurry on over and join the group. This promotion will last  will run until August, 31.

Have you checked out the  group called Nourish Your Morning? They have this really cool contest going on right now.  

Heidi G., 3-A-Day  has published an article called Enter the "Start Your Day with Dairy" Contest for a Chance to Win a Cookbook!  All you have to do is Submit your best dairy breakfast recipe to win a customized Nourish Your Morning cookbook from TasteBook^TM, featuring recipes from 3-A-Day^TM of Dairy and YOU.  The open submission period for this contest ends Sept 30 2008 @ 11:59 PM  EST

YOU COULD GET 1,000 GATHER POINTS

Balanced Living is sponsoring a Balanced Living Journal.  It is so easy to participate. All you have to do is keep an online healthy living journal between August 12^th and August 20^th. You do have to submit this journal to the Balanced Living group.

At the end of the challenge, Gather will select five members who posted at least five journals between the specified dates to receive 1,000 Gather points.

To learn more- you can read Stefanie Plum, Gather Partner Team  post here.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO WIN SOME MUSIC

Do you ever wish you could have your own theme song for when you walked into a room? What would it be? Maybe a soul-funk tune like "Shaft"? Or something a little heavier with guitar rifts like "Welcome to the Jungle"?

Tell Gather what  your theme song would be . You could win a prize pack of music goodies.

Click here for more details. Comments must be posted by August 24^th. Gather will randomly select three members to receive one of the prize packs listed in the article. You can enter multiple comments, but each member will only be entered into the drawing once.

Todays individual spotlight is shared by two wonderful gather members. 

 Janet "Jax" B.  is a wonderful compassionate person. She always has a kind word for everyone.  She is always thinking of others before herself.  Her latest article is My Memorable Dinner Moment....It Can Only Happen to Me....         Congratulations Jax!

Bob B.  is always keeping us up todate with the Amber Alerts. He is great to offer free tax advice and is just an all around good guy. Bob's latest article is Freebies For Today: 08/12/08  Congratulations Bob!
 

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