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Split The Pot returns as a monthly lottery supporting local healthcare foundations

A 50/50 draw that helps support dozens of healthcare foundations across Alberta is returning as a monthly lottery.

Funds raised through the Split the Pot Lottery will be split between the participating organizations, including the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital Foundation, Grimshaw/Berwyn & District Hospital Foundation, Hythe Nursing Home Foundation and Fairview Health Complex Foundation. The money will be used by these organizations to help support health care in these communities.

According to organizers, with the lottery is moving a monthly structure, ticket purchase deadlines will be every Wednesday and draws happening every Thursday, with the Grand Prize deadline and draw falling on the last Wednesday and Thursday of the month. As well those who purchase tickets can direct where they want the net proceeds of their ticket purchase to go, whether to a specific foundation or equally among all 34 partner foundations.

Over $1 million has been donated to hospital and healthcare foundations through the Split the Pot Lottery and over $620,000 was split between 51 winners.

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Tickets range in price from $15 to $100 and more information can be found here.

Kass Patterson
Kass Patterson
Born and raised in Calgary, Kass, from a young age, developed a love for learning people's stories and being able to share them with the community (or her family, or whoever would listen). In addition to working in communities like Okotoks and Calgary, Kass has also spent her summers travelling with the World Professional Chuckwagon Association since 2019, to help provide a peek behind the barn door into the world of chuckwagon racing. Outside of work and anything horse related, Kass is a reader and an avid country music fan, and most likely can be found with the biggest cup of coffee possible.
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