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Whatever Happened in the Deck the House Contest?

A family in Davis won $100,000 for its local school district by getting thousands of people to vote online. Here are some follow-up photos.

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So, what was the result of Patch's nationwide Deck the House contest, the one that earned $100,000 for a local school district based on votes for a decorated holiday house in a Patch neighborhood?

A won, and here is a shot of the winning house.

is what the district plans to do with the cash.

Check out during a halftime of a Davis High basketball game.

Next year, Novato will have to rally behind one local decked-out house and get hundreds of people to vote online every day. Kudos to the effort made by Sylvia Barry to get people to vote for the famed Rombeiro Christmas House this past season.

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