Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 17, 1995 TAG: 9503170014
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: CODY LOWE
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Jean Jadhon, anchor of the 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts on WDBJ (Channel 7), is getting married later this year and has been doing the normal bride things. Picking china patterns, shopping for clothes, setting up gift registries.
And, she points out, "everywhere you turn, there is another contest to enter."
So, like just about every other bride-to-be, Jadhon puts her name in the pot for all the drawings she comes across. Finally, one of them paid off.
"I hit the jackpot."
Jadhon last month won a seven-day Caribbean cruise, gift certificates for jewelry, wedding attire and wedding stationery, and an oriental rug, all provided by Roanoke Valley merchants.
Downplaying any significance of her celebrity status in town, Jadhon said she entered and won the random drawing just as anybody else might have done.
Except one of the sponsors of this contest was WSET (Channel 13) - the competition from across the market in Lynchburg.
"They were very nice about it," Jadhon said.
"We thought it was funny," said Channel 13 account executive Robin Porterfield, who coordinated the contest.
It was, apparently, a case where the nuptial fates weren't going to let a little competition stand in the way of a free honeymoon.
by CNB