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Hospital foundation launches car lottery

The St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation has launched its new fundraiser for this year. It has purchased a 2018 Fiat 124 Spider Abarth from Power Dodge at below cost.
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St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation interim executive director Travis Frank stands next to the car that is the grand prize in the upcoming lottery.

The St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation has launched its new fundraiser for this year.

It has purchased a 2018 Fiat 124 Spider Abarth from Power Dodge at below cost. The sports car will be the grand prize in a lottery that will take place this summer and into the early fall.

“This is actually the first one they have sold in the city, and it's a brand-new designed car, so nobody else has ever really bought this before (in Estevan),” said St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation interim executive director Travis Frank.

Tickets are $75 each, or three for $195. A total of 2,000 tickets will be available. The tickets will go on sale within the next two weeks. 

Furniture, televisions, Power Dodge Estevan Bruins season tickets and other prizes will also be available through the lottery.

There will also be an early bird draw in mid-to-late July for $2,500, and a 50-50 draw.

“This is a plan to move into a much bigger style of fundraiser going into the future. This is our first attempt at it, and hopefully we'll be able to continue it in the next couple of years to make even more money for our hospital,” said Frank.

The foundation has been consulting with the Hospitals of Regina Foundation and the STARS Air Ambulance about their fundraising lotteries and how they run them. Both of those lotteries have big prizes.

“We’d like to grow this to the point where we can give away a house, but that’s not realistic in year one, obviously,” said Frank. “So we wanted to start with a really great car, and see if we can make this a big success.”

There have been various vehicle raffles in Estevan previously, but the hospital foundation wanted to have a sports car for this first edition.

All tickets for the lottery will be sold online.

The draw for the grand prize will be in late September.