The Health Foundation is starting a new venture, and one lucky winner will have a new place to call home thanks to it. The Health Foundation’s first home lottery has begun.
The lottery is happening thanks to Jack Wruth and Doris Shank of Re/Max Blue Chip Realty. While the Health Foundation has explored the idea of a home lottery before, Ross Fisher, executive director of the Health Foundation says that there was too much risk involved if the Health Foundation itself was going to responsible for the home.
“We are very appreciative of Re/Max’s very generous contribution, because it’s really the only way that we could undertake a home lottery in this fashion, by having the cost of that first prize, a very expensive first prize, donated.”
Having a house donated also means that more of the money spent by ticket holders in the lottery will go to Health Foundation projects.
The home up for grabs is a 1,484 sq. ft. three bedroom, two bath ready-to-move home. It’s built with basement access in mind, as well as a garage. The home is valued at $169,900.
“It’s the kind of house that I think most people would want to live in,” Wruth said.
Secondary prizes will push the total prize package to $250,000, and there will also be a 50/50 draw as part of the lottery.
The choice to donate a ready to move home was made in response to the large area which the Health Foundation serves, Wruth explains. Given that the reach of the foundation extends outside of city limits, it made sense for the prize to be something that can be used by someone who is settled in Esterhazy, for example. The prize home can be put anywhere there is a foundation.
One of the goals in donating the home is to generate more interest in the Health Foundation and its projects, explains Wruth. He believes in the work that the foundation does, but also thinks that by doing new projects and generating excitement around the Health Foundation’s activities, it will make people more inclined to support the different causes which the foundation raises money to support.
“We’re very excited about it because it helps bring to light more about the work that we do, how our work benefits people and improves health care in our local area,” added Fisher.
This year the focus is on Yorkton and area’s newest residents, babies. The number of births in the area has doubled, and that means there is an increase in the number of at risk babies born in the Yorkton Regional Health Centre. Much of the equipment purchased from the home lottery will be used to buy new maternity ward equipment to allow more children to be treated in Yorkton.
Wruth and Re/Max have been long-time supporters of Health Foundation projects, and they’re glad to be a big part of this lottery.
“We’re working with professional people who make us look good.”
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