Thank you to the dozens and dozens of readers that participated in our blog’s recent contest for the free 1 year Family Membership to the Essex County Turtle Back Zoo!

We had almost 100 entries, including some across the Twitterverse.

But the contest deadline of November 15th has come and we are now able to pick the winner of the free zoo membership.  In order to work towards transparency in picking the zoo contest winner, here’s the video selecting the winner:

Congratulations to our winner!  Thanks for participating to all our readers. 

Watch out for another contest coming up real soon at www.FingerClickingGood.com/livingston

Get over to www.WinAWildParty.com and make the easy 1-page entry.

Don’t believe that it’s that easy?  Check out the video tour I made of the contest entry page it’s really just one page!

And while you’re in the freebie mode, enter our Free Zoo Membership contest here on http://www.FingerClickingGood.com/livingston for a full year membership for you and your family members to the zoo!

This week, we announce a great new contest exclusive to www.FingerClickingGood.com/livingston

The Essex County Turtle Back Zoo will give away a ONE YEAR Family Membership to the Zoo for FREE to one lucky winner here!

Entries must be made by midnight November 15th, 2009 eastern time, one entry per person.

Also, if you want a 2nd chance at the contest, just tweet about this contest here at www.fingerclickinggood.com/livingston via Twitter with the hashtag #turtlebackzoo

1. Contest is open to U.S. residents only unless otherwise noted.

2. Enter the contest by leaving a comment on the post with the name of your favorite zoo animal. Read below to see how to increase your odds of winning!

3. Entries must be submitted by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on the contest deadline. Winner will be notified by email (so be sure to give us a valid email).

4. Prize delivery will be arranged by Essex County Turtle Back Zoo management after we contact you and collect your address.

5. The winner will have 3 days to claim their prize after being notified by email; otherwise, a new winner will be chosen.

6. Winner will be chosen using Random.Org’s True Random Number Generator.

7. We will not share your information in any way!

8. Increase your chance of winning with up to two additional entries by:
a) sending a message over Twitter about this contest with the hashtag #turtlebackzoo
b) publishing a blog post with a link back to this site and then posting a comment with the URL of your blog post in the comment section below

9. We reserve the right to cancel this contest for any reason at all.

10. Essex County Turtle Back Zoo is supplying the 1 annual family membership prize.

11. Value of prize if $75.00.

Here’s details of a new contest from the Essex County Turtle Back Zoo.

I don’t know when the last time you visited the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange (behind the Codey Arena at South Mountain), but it is not the same zoo your dad brought you to when you were a kid.

The Turtle Back Zoo is now an officially accredited zoo in NJ. They’ve added a bunch of great new exhibits and residents. There’s a great BIG carousel and playground for the kids. The bird aviary is definiately one of my kids’ favorite areas. And you have the good ol’ standby classic – the choo choo train that takes you around the lake at South Mountain in the back of the zoo grounds.

The Zoo is giving away a free party for you and 25 if your friends. They’ll even throw in a $250 gift card so you can be a super host and look like a star.

The contest entry requirements are so easy that you have no excuse NOT to enter for the party price worth $675!

Get on it, because the deadline is October 15th!