The Cars for Christmas Lottery ticket sales are closing at 11:59 p.m. Friday, December 29th, and the Rotary Clubs of Grande Prairie are making on final push.
Cars for Christmas Lottery Coordinator, Jessie Urness says lottery ticket sales “have been going strong” and they hope that residents will continue to support the lottery until the end. Urness adds the Rotary Clubs of Grand Prairie are hoping in the final push they can raise “as much as possible” for the 11 non-profit groups that the funds will support.
“Considering the challenges many organizations are facing with a significant gap between escalating costs and available funding our Rotary Clubs and Lottery committees are working diligently to provide that much-needed funding.”
Urness says though the campaign is a ways from selling out the hope is this last push will bring them closer, as each of the non-profit groups will rely on the funds raised through the lottery to “continue important charity work here in our community.” The community groups receiving funding from the ticket sales, include Big Brothers Big Sisters of Grande Prairie and Area, the Grande Prairie Storm, GPPSD Education Foundation, Tiny Hands of Hope, Centre of Creative Arts, Grande Prairie Gymnastics and Cheerleading, Swan City Rotary Club, Rotary Club of Grande Prairie, After Five, Rotary Club of Grande Prairie, Sunrise Rotary Club of Grande Prairie.