Williamson County Chamber: One Month Left To Enter And Win Up To $1,500 In Brentwood's Best Ash Contest

Press release from Williamson County Chamber:

August 9, 2021

Brentwood, TN – The City of Brentwood and the Brentwood Tree Board have a contest currently in place that could allow you to win up to $1,500. Brentwood’s Best Ash is a photo and mapping contest designed to help educate the community about the invasion of the Emerald Ash Borer and its attack on Ash Trees. Contest prize winners can win up to $1,500 and t-shirts are randomly given away each week. Anyone is eligible to win.

City Commissioner and Tree Board Member Ken Travis said, “the Brentwood Tree Board is excited to remind you that you could win up to $1,500 by submitting a photo of an Ash Tree and identifying locations of Ash Trees in Brentwood. This contest is designed to help educate the community about the invasion of the Emerald Ash Borer and its attack on Ash Trees.” Commissioner Travis added, “come on Brentwood – who wants to win $1,500? Submit that winning photo and those locations!”

Brentwood Tree Board Member and contest manager, Brian Evans, said, “we need your help to spread the word about the contest but more importantly the devastation caused by the Emerald Ash Borer. We encourage you to look around the community and your property for ash trees, which would be helpful information for the City of Brentwood to know for the future.”

To date, the board has received more than 250 entries. There are two judging categories for entries, which include the photo and location of an Ash Tree. Photo entries will be judged on artistic expression, originality, creativity and demonstration of the theme, Brentwood’s Best Ash. The second category is for Ash Tree location, and winners are determined by the total number of unique locations submitted per entrant. For both categories, the tree must be an ash species tree and located within the Brentwood city limits.

Brentwood’s Best Ash Contest is open to anyone who lives, works, or attends school in Brentwood. Employees of the City are not eligible to win. Deadline to enter is midnight on September 6, 2021 and winners will be announced on the City’s social media pages. All photographs submitted become the property of the City of Brentwood and, as such, may be published elsewhere (including social media pages) without the express written consent of the entrant.

Special thanks to our sponsor, State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Company, or SVMIC for the donation of prizes and t-shirts for this contest. See official rules on the City of Brentwood website and learn more on how to submit your entries at www.BrentwoodTN.gov/BrentwoodsBestAsh

This press release was produced by Williamson County Chamber. The views expressed here are the author’s own.