News Room
For immediate release - March 19, 2007
Ottawa Hospital Lottery Early Bird Deadline This Friday
Scotiabank to match tickets sold this week
(OTTAWA, ONTARIO) – The countdown is on!
The deadline to buy tickets for this year’s Ottawa Hospital
Lottery Early Bird Draw is Friday, March 23 at midnight. The Early
Bird winner will have a choice of three amazing prize packages worth
$82,000 each – the largest early bird of its kind in Eastern
Ontario.
For every Ottawa Hospital Lottery ticket sold this week, Scotiabank
will make a matching donation up to a maximum of $10,000. So every
ticket sold goes a long way!
Included in one of the packages are his-and-hers Harley-Davidson
motorcycles – a 2007 Electra Glide and 2007 Softail Deluxe.
A second option features a great Canadian rafting adventure on the
mythic Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories, a diamond necklace
and $50,000 cash. The third option includes Honda all terrain vehicles,
a Polaris snowmobile and an 18K Gold Sapphire Diamond Ring. There
will also be 2,000 draws for free tickets for the final draw.
It’s important to remember that all proceeds from The Ottawa
Hospital Lottery stay right here in our community.
Funds will go to key cancer projects at The Ottawa Hospital, including
operating rooms at the General Campus. That’s important because
one in three people in Eastern Ontario will be diagnosed with cancer
in their lifetime; and 80 per cent of them will require surgery.
Since The Ottawa Hospital is the hub of cancer care in our region,
most cancer surgeries will take place at the General Campus.
The 11th edition of The Ottawa Hospital Lottery features more than
5,100 prizes in total worth more than $2.3 million.
Each ticket costs $100 or 3 for $250. Only 43,700 will be sold.
Tickets are available by calling 613-783-9550 or 1-800-853-6955;
in person at the Civic, General or Riverside campuses of
The Ottawa Hospital; or at any of Ottawa’s major chartered
banks.
Complete prize information and lottery rules are available at www.ottawahospitallottery.com
The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) is a multi-campus, academic
health sciences centre, serving 1.5 million residents of Ottawa
and Eastern Ontario, both in English and French. It provides care
for more patients than any other hospital in Canada, and is one
of the largest acute care hospitals in the country. It boasts specialty
centres in cancer, heart, kidney and vision care, as well as rehabilitation
services. Working together with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute,
the University of Ottawa, and other partners, TOH is gaining national
recognition for high-quality patient care, teaching and research.
It ranks as one of the most efficient teaching hospitals in the
country. For more information, visit The Ottawa Hospital Web site
at www.ottawahospital.on.ca.
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation’s mission
is to inspire and enable people to support the highest quality health
care at The Ottawa Hospital and lifesaving research at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. For more information, visit
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation Web site at www.ohfoundation.ca.
For more information, please contact:
Robin Percival
Media & Public Relations Officer
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation
Tel.: 613-798-5555, ext. 18718
Cell: 613-614-8755
rpercival@ottawahospital.on.ca
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