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News Room
For immediate release
- May 2, 2007
Winners of the 2007 Ottawa Hospital Lottery Announced
Foundation thanks community for “stepping
up to the plate” for cancer care
(OTTAWA, ONTARIO) – The Ottawa Hospital
Foundation today announced Terry Ansari of Ottawa,
(ticket number 28169), as the lucky grand prize winner of the 2007
Ottawa Hospital Lottery.
The announcement of the grand prize winner marks the official close
of this year’s Lottery. Despite a slow start, the Lottery
was able to generate a healthy return for cancer facilities and
care at The Ottawa Hospital.
“I’m very impressed with how The Ottawa Hospital’s
friends in our community – including former patients, suppliers
and the media – stepped up to plate,” said Susan Doyle,
President and CEO of The Ottawa Hospital Foundation. “They
reached out to their friends and contacts, they handed out Lottery
brochures, they bought an extra ticket or they simply talked up
the importance of The Ottawa Hospital to anyone who would listen.
Thank you, Ottawa!”
Mr. Ansari now has a tough choice to make – he will have
to choose from:
- Option #1, worth more than $1 million and featuring a fully
furnished European-styled town home in the Byward Market, a 2007
Mercedes SL550 convertible, a 7-day European canal cruise and
$300,000 cash
- Option #2, worth more than $1 million, which includes a 3,200
square-foot country home on a golf course near Kemptville, a 2007
Eddie Bauer Edition Ford Explorer, a South African safari, and
$350,000 cash
- Option #3, also worth more than $1 million and featuring a 2007
luxury Winnebago, a 2007 Dodge pick-up truck, and $500,000 cash
- Or take the $800,000 cash
Other lucky winners of this year’s lottery include:
- Tim Fletcher of Orleans (ticket number 021406)
won an ultimate home makeover from M-Y- Home worth $150,000.
- David Short of Ottawa (ticket number 014725)won
a PGA fantasy golf vacation for four in Ponte Verda, Florida,
worth over $27,500.
- Orville Lahey of Kemptville (ticket number
021238)won a Napa Valley wine tour for four worth over $16,500.
- Angela Silver of Nepean (ticket number 028085)
won an Eco Adventure in Yellowstone National Park for two worth
over $14,300.
Other prizes awarded in The Ottawa Hospital Lottery include 500
rounds of golf for two at The Marshes, 1,500 pairs of Bluesfest
tickets, and 22 fitness packages from the Ottawa Athletic Club.
A complete list of lottery winners will be published in the May
8 editions of The Ottawa Citizen and Le Droit. The names of the
winners will also be posted on The Ottawa Hospital Lottery Web site
at www.ottawahospitallottery.com
Proceeds from this year’s Lottery will support cancer care
at The Ottawa Hospital. New facilities include the new Cancer Assessment
Clinic at the General Campus, and new operating rooms currently
being built in the Critical Care Wing (the majority of surgeries
to be performed there are cancer surgeries).
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. For more information, visit 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 www.ohfoundation.ca.
For more information, please contact:
Robin Percival
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation
Media & Public Relations Officer
Tel.: 613-798-5555, ext. 18718
Cell: 613-614-8755
rpercival@ottawahospital.on.ca
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