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Win free travel book by taking quick Vallejo Community Examiner quiz

Labor Day weekend ...a good time to stay off the road and do some fall cleaning.  The Vallejo Community Examiner's office could stand a good cleaning and we found a travel book that could use a new owner.  If you would like to be that owner, stick around today and take a short quiz.  You may win this travel book!  Nothing to buy and shipping is courtesy of the Vallejo Community Examiner So  follow the instructions below and have fun!            

 Contest Instructions:

1) Find  answers for  numbers one through five (below) by clicking on  the questions and retrieving the answer.  (No tricky questions or answers here!)
 
 
3) Only one entry per email account owner
 
4) Winning entry is the first entry submitted  with the most right answers.  The Vallejo Community Examiner will post the correct answers once the contest is over.
 
5) Vallejo Community Examiner will notify the winning entry owner  by replying to  the same address from where the answers were sent.
 
6)  Deadline for email entries is:  Monday, September 7th, 2009
 
About the contest prize
 
Author:  Alan Cheuse 
 
Cheuse is a novelist, teacher and book reviewer who appears regularly on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and occasionally on NPR's "Weekend Edition Saturday" and the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."   His book reviews can be found in a host of publications that include The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune and The San Francisco Chronicle.  In Trance, Cheuse gives his readers fascinating glimpses of life in such places as Bali, New Zealand and Mexico in a lyrical narrative style that is both fresh and intimate. 
 

Now here's your quiz!
  1. Where was the jellyfish video recorded? 
  2. Where is Vallejo's nearest bocce ball court?
  3. What is the name of the Resort mentioned in this posting?
  4. What is the name of a hot place in Vallejo to boogie?
  5. What are the names of the two 'great' Vallejo swimming pools?
GOOD LUCK!

            

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Patricia Kutza is a San Francisco Bay Area-based journalist. When not writing, she can be found mastering her camel-spin on ice, photographing outdoor murals, or catching halibut in San Pablo Bay. She welcomes feedback at pkutza@pacbell.net.. Patricia also contributes to CBS Local, and can be...

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