FRANKLIN —A Clarksville man won a $650,000 home in Westhaven on Sunday, helping Southern Land Co. and media partners WZTV-Channel 17 and WSIX-FM raise $1.6 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a new fundraising record.

This is the fourth year that St. Jude has operated a campaign in Middle Tennessee and the fourth year that a Westhaven home has been the grand prize. According to a press release from the Memphis hospital, the volunteers' and community sponsors' participation and amount of money raised are unprecedented on a national scale.

In their 30 years of marriage, Julie Tarrents has always had more of a knack for winning tickets than husband David.

But that changed Sunday when David's $100 ticket purchased online was drawn as the winner of the Nashville St. Jude Dream Home contest. 

The Clarksville couple won a new home valued at $650,000 in the Westhaven community of Franklin.

The Westhaven Realty sales team moved into their new offices in the Westhaven Town Center on June 18th. Located at 1001 Westhaven Blvd., Suite 100, just a few steps from the Vanderbilt Medical Group Offices and The Spectacle Shoppe, the new office is up and operational! Be sure to stop by on your next visit to Westhaven!

Tickets are still available for a chance at winning the St. Jude’s Dream House constructed in honor of Murfreesboro resident Ally Cameron.

The goal of the 2008 St. Jude Dream Home campaign is to raise $1.6 million for the internationally known research hospital dedicated to finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases.

There is still time to purchase a ticket for a chance to win the St. Jude Dream Home, which will be given away Sunday. The four-bedroom home is in Westhaven and is valued at approximately $650,000.

Fewer than 2,000 tickets remain for the Middle Tennessee Dream Home — one of 34 in the country — to raise $1.6 million for the children's hospital, making it the nation's largest Dream Home campaign to date.

A new retirement community aimed at the music industry is planned for Westhaven Town Center in Franklin to provide a community for musicians and entertainers in their senior years.

Blakeford Development Services Inc. will build and manage the community, which will have independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing beds.

Time is winding down and tickets are running out for your chance to win a more than half-million dollar home in Franklin.

It's the final full-weekend before the 2008 Saint Jude Dream Home Giveaway.

Tickets still remain - they are 100-dollars each.

Saturday was a scorcher. But hundreds of people still turned out to pound the pavement, dine on cookout fare and listen to live music for the second year of the Life is good Festival & 5K.

About 700 adults and 300 children registered to take part in the foot races through the Westhaven subdivision while many more were there just to take part in other activities that included a tongue-in-cheek World's Greatest Backyard Athlete competition, event co-chairwoman Melonee McKinney Hurt said.

The Life is Good Dinner kicked off the weekend's festival and 5k run at Green's Grocery in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee on June 6th, 2008. The event benefited the Boys and Girls Club of Williamson County and the Life is Good Kids Foundation.

"Life is good® Festivals bring communities together to feel good and do good. Fully 100% of festival funds raised are donated to the Life is good Kids Foundation. The Foundation donates every penny received from festivals to extraordinary charities helping kids who face unfair challenges, including the trauma of violence and poverty.”

Running a 5K in Tennessee summer weather can become a tricky proposition.

Heat avoidance and a later start for the Life is good Festival's runs, which meander through the Westhaven subdivision neighborhood, gives participants a jump on other activities pre-race.

"This year, we're moving around the scheduling a bit because we found that the runners didn't want to stick around for the festival after the race, and also it got really hot during the day," said event co-chair Melonee McKinney Hurt.

Last year, the morning 5K attracted almost 1,000 runners who raised about $30,000. Those funds were split evenly between the Boys & Girls Club of Franklin and Williamson County and the Life is good Kids Foundation, which distributes money to nonprofits that support children in need. This year's goal is $50,000.