President's Message- Annual Raffle

Posted by Bill Kany 
on Sep 30, 2015
 
 
It is raffle time again.  Yes, it’s time for Earl and Carl to wow us with their salesmanship, but we should all make an effort to do our part.  We sell 250 tickets and there are 65 of us in the club.  Let’s do the math.  If we all sell 4 tickets we have sold them all and then some.  I am guessing that some of you are saying, but I don’t know 4 people willing to part with $100 even if the odds are 1 in 250 (more on the great odds in a minute).  That may be true, but do you know 16 people willing to part with $25.00?  Remember these tickets can be sold to multiple people.  Let’s make a concerted effort to take the burden off of Earl and Carl while selling all the tickets. 
Here are some helpful sales points.
  • Purchasing a raffle ticket helps the Biddeford Saco Rotary Club fund many wonderful causes including $21,000 in scholarships.
  • Purchasing a raffle tickets entitles you to go to the awesome raffle night on November 12 at Duffy’s where you can see Earl pull the winning balls.
  • You have a 1 in 36 chance of winning a prize and a 1 in 250 chance of winning the big prize of $5,000.00.
  • I have to sell my tickets or Earl will hurt me.
Think just about those odds.  For a person with a lifespan of 80 years, the odds of getting struck by lightning are 1 in 10,000 over the person’s whole life.  Your odds of winning the big PowerBall prize are around 1 in 175 million.  The odds of dating a supermodel for most of us (excluding Joe Moreshead) are 1 in 88,000.  Your odds of winning an Olympic Gold Medal are 1 in 662,000.  The odds of finding a 4-leaf clover are 1 in 10,000.  So having 1 in 36 odds or 1 in 250 odds are pretty darn good.
So, help out the club and stretch a little and sell an extra ticket or two, and don’t wait, get them sold and then join us on November 12 to hear your name or the name of one of your buyers drawn.