2008 Holiday Decorating Contest Winners

Sponsored by the Vernon Parks & Recreation Dept., The Dickens’ Day Committee and the Rockville Community Alliance

Best Residential Displays

152 Daryl Drive, Frank Rzeznikiewicz,                  - Most Impressive-tie
64 Center Road, Cheryl Dellaripa,                        - Most Impressive-tie

865 Hartford Tpke., Jeff Schambach ,                 - Most Artistic

29 Scott Drive, Eugene Faultas,                           - Most outrageous!

23 Knollwood Drive, Dave & Michelle Bower,        - Highest + Tallest Display

60 Prospect Street, Liz Stevenson,                     - Best Victorian Display-tie
73 Elm St.    David Lamot                                      - Best Victorian Display-tie

50 Ridgewood Drive, Bernadette Neal                - Most Unusual (Revolving outdoor tree!)

Green, Low Energy Display

684 Hartford Tpke., Laura & Matthew Ryan (recycled branches for decorations for exterior windows, 3 watt bulbs, real candles for lanterns, re-used bows

Best Door Display

5 Eric Circle, Michelle & David Maguda

Best Street - a tie this year

Campbell Ave. (near Rte 84) - tie

Russell Drive & Scott Drive -neighborhood - tie

Best Business

Michelle's Florals & Gift 555 Talcottville Rd, Rte. 83

“Shoe Explosion” & “Things Not Forgotten” West Main Street downtown Rockville

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Vernon holiday decorating contest has judges all tied up

By Max Bakke
Journal Inquirer

http://www.journalinquirer.com/articles/2008/12/25/towns/vernon/doc4952cf4a015ac097199600.txt

Published: Thursday, December 25, 2008 1:17 AM EST

A Daryl Drive man and a Center Road woman have tied for the most impressive holiday displays this year in the town’s annual holiday decorating contest.

Frank Rzeznikiewicz, of 152 Daryl Drive, and Cheryl Dellaripa, of 64 Center Road, tied for the most impressive holiday display, the contest’s top prize, Rockville Community Alliance member Bryan Flint said.

Flint said about 20 households and businesses entered the competition to win bragging rights for their displays, twice as many as last year’s contest.

“We had more entries than ever this year,” Flint said. “Everyone who applied put a great deal of time and effort into their decorations.”

Dorothy Lamot said it took at least 45 wreaths, a dozen bows, and nearly 30 strings of white lights to decorate her and her husband’s Victorian-style home on Elm Street. The Lamots and Liz Stevenson of Prospect Street tied for the grandest Victorian display in this year’s contest.

Lamot said the display, which she has recently started putting up annually in the home she and her husband, David, have lived in for 28 years, took about three days to complete.

“I just keep buying and putting up lights until I was done,” she said. “I just enjoy decorating, that’s all.”

“My husband cringes when I decorate because the light bill goes up, but I pay it, so it’s not a big deal,” she sad.

The contest, sponsored by the alliance, the Parks and Recreation Department, and the town’s Dickens’ Day Committee, invited residents and businesses to compete in 10 categories, including an award for the best display which utilizes little or no energy.

The low-energy award went to Laura and Matthew Ryan for their Hartford Turnpike home, which used recycled branches and bows, 3-watt lightbulbs, and candles for lanterns in their display.

A list of all other winners is available on the contest’s Web site, at http://rockvillect.com