(L-R) Rotary Club of Grande Prairie President Jeff Keddie, Rotary Club of Grande Prairie After Five club President Danielle Bizon, and Swan City Rotary Club President Tab Pollock receive the total proceeds of the 2021 Cars for Christmas lottery. Photo courtesy Pattison Media Staff.

By Jeff Henson

Cars for Christmas officially put wraps on 2021 edition with cheque presentations

Mar 7, 2022 | 12:58 PM

Organizers of the Cars for Christmas lottery got to hand out some hard-earned cash last week to the groups that help[ed them sell tickets for the most recent edition of the lottery.

Thanks to selling 80 percent of tickets for the lottery, which took place late last year, lottery chair Pamela Nordin says they will be able to put $475,000 in proceeds back into the community.

“We had seven partner groups working with us in the lottery – those were the people that you saw at the kiosk selling tickets. We gave each of those groups $10,000. The rest of it go es to the community in allocations through the three Rotary clubs.”

Partner groups that received this funding were the Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools Education Foundation, the Regional EMS Foundation, PARDS, the Centre for Creative Arts, Hythe and District Agricultural Society, the Resource Centre for Suicide Prevention, and the United Way of Alberta Northwest.

The Grande Prairie Gymnastics club received over $70,700 for their assistance with the lottery.

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Nordin says one thing she noticed this year is how these groups helped each other out, especially when it came to pandemic-related illnesses.

“Because of COVID, and if someone tested positive, they could not come and work at the kiosk. We had other groups pitching in. We had partner groups working across partner groups, helping each other out to staff the sales booth. So that in itself I felt was really inspiring.”

Nordin thanks everyone who purchased or sold tickets, and helped them make the lottery such a success.

Nordin called Cars for Christmas a huge success and is excited to launch their Cash and Camping lottery in April.