Home and Away Draw ~ Winners
The Home and Away Draw held by the Rotary Club of Portage la Prairie and the Portage Plains United Way took place at Canad Inns.
Matthew Newham is president of the board for the United Way, and says the fundraiser was a great success.
"We're very grateful and we're very excited at the results here -- $6,000 on each side that will go toward helping our community, along with our ten agencies as well. We just want to say a very big thank-you to Portage Rotary for partnering with us. And we had a lot of fun with it. You know, the funds are going to stay in our community, which is absolutely huge."
Jeff Dubois is co-chair of the Home and Away Draw, and names the winners.
"I'm very excited that we just had the final two prizes of our Home and Away Draw. We gave away a $2,500.00 Total Travel gift certificate, and I want to thank Total Travel for being a sponsor and working with both of us on this draw. And the winner of that was Sheldon Verspeek. And he has $2,500.00 to get away somewhere. And then we drew for a $5,000.00 Rona gift certificate here in Portage. And the winner was Roger Jackson."
Dubois adds, "I just want to thank Rona and Total Travel for partnering with us, and we're very excited that we partnered with United Way. And the money that we raised -- there was just over 1,100 tickets sold. And the proceeds will be split between Rotary and United Way. And Rotary will use those to the projects they are putting toward like the Disc Golf and Rotary Republic Park."