Ms. Smith will receive an all expense paid 3 day, 2 night trip to New York this month to have dinner with the 'All My Children" star J. Eddie Peck, who plays Dr. Jake Martin on the ABC daytime series. 

"...I've never won anything before and can't wait for the trip! It will be so exciting to meet Eddie Peck in person", said Smith, who will also be presented with a 52" big screen TV by Rent-Way Regional Manager Roger Reynolds, and Store Manager Mario (Eddie) Pagan.

According to Rent-Way, the "Soap Opera Sweepstakes" generated more than 13,000 entries. Abby Burdick, a representative of Soap Opera Digest and Soap Opera Weekly who coordinated the contest, explained... "Just to give you an idea of the success of this program,...13,000 is almost double the number of entries from any other Soap Opera Digest sweepstakes in 2001". Soap Opera Digest will feature photographs taken from the New York City trip and the presentation of the projection TV in upcoming issues of Soap Opera Digest and Soap Opera Weekly.

Roger Zwingler, Rent-Way's Vice President, Marketing and Advertising..."This promotion provided an excellent opportunity for Rent-Way to continue building name recognition as a leader in the rent-to-own industry. We design these promotions with the goal of creating some excitement among our employees and top-of-mind awareness for customers; I think this sweepstakes did a fabulous job of doing both."

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