Photo courtesy of Townsend Smith Hospice Foundation Facebook page
The elusive ace of spades in the Townsend Smith Hospice Foundation (TSHF) Catch the Ace raffle is STILL up for grabs.
Each week, a winner is given a card from a deck. They automatically win the weekly pot, but could win the jackpot if they pull the ace of spades. With 52 cards in a deck, there are now 21 cards still left to be picked.
William Russell pulled the four of diamonds on Friday to win $430. Events Coordinator for TSHF Mallory Crippen says Russell had his weekend already planned.
Russell’s mother is actually a volunteer for the Townsend Smith Foundation, which is how he found out about the raffle.
Crippen says that she’s always amazed at the weekly interest in the event as it just shows how far the Foundation has come within the community. She calls the TSHF a grassroots organizations, and she’s happy to see people vying for that jackpot each week.
The Foundation feels the community would be better served by having palliative and respite care available in either Milton or Halton Hills.
The hospice might end up going in the recently announced Wilfrid Laurier University-Conestoga College joint campus, to be located off Tremaine Road by the Milton Velodrome. Learn all about that here.
This is the second go-around for the Townsend Smith Foundation and the weekly 50/50 draw. Some of the previous winners this year have been:
- Walt Anderson
- Carmen Alexander-Nash
- Paulo Vieira
- Katie Bianchi
- Kelly Dennis
- Pauline Russell
- Kevin Riley
- Wendy Neal
- June Nyholt
- Donna F.
- Lili Rushton
- Jennifer Schornagel-Jones
- Ellen Luccock
The jackpot is now at nearly $27,000, with the weekly pot already over $280 (at the time of writing). The draw will be Friday, August 13th at 12:00 p.m.. To participate and buy your tickets, click here.
