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VANCOUVER, BC, May 11, 2022 — Don’t miss out on your chance to win BIG for Mental Health, get your Coast Mental Health Foundation 50/50 tickets now! The jackpot is getting bigger and you could still win up to $120,000!

Tickets start from just $10 for one, $25 for 3, $50 for 10 tickets, or $100 for 25. The anticipated jackpot prize of $240,000 will be split with the winner!

When you play the Coast Mental Health Foundation 50/50 Raffle, you provide urgently needed support for people living with mental illness here in BC and you have a chance of winning up to $120,000!

Your tickets can help folks like Wing.

“I feel a sense of gratitude to have this space here for me to work with supportive people. I don’t know where I’d be without this place,” says Wing a former Coast Mental Health client and Peer Support Worker.

Peer support works because it gives specialized training to people who have learned to manage their mental health challenges. Participants understand the struggles that come with experiencing mental illness because they have lived it themselves and have learned to manage it.

Get your 50/50 tickets today and you can help open the door to recovery for other people like Wing and you have the chance to take home up to $120,000!

Programs like these are a critical resource for people living with mental illness. You can help.

Tickets start from just $10 – don’t delay, purchase now before they run out.

About Coast Mental Health

As a non-profit organization, Coast Mental Health is BC’s largest provider of community-based services for people living with mental illness. Thanks to supporters like you, we provide the critical link between hospital services and our communities. We are an established leader in our field, known for high quality, innovative programs and research.

Each year, we provide essential services to nearly 6,000 people living with mental illness so they can find their meaningful place in our communities – a place to live, a place to connect, and a place to work.

Thank you for supporting people living with mental illness!

 

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Order Today to Win a Welcome Bonus

VANCOUVER, BC, Wednesday, May 11, 2022 — The bonus deadline is Midnight, this Friday May 13! Get your Hometown Heroes Lottery tickets today to win a prize draw worth over $26,000 – and much, much more.

Every ticket ordered this week will be automatically entered in the Welcome Bonus Draw, and the winner will choose one of three prize options: a 2022 Mazda 3 GX MT, a 2022 Toyota Corolla Hatchback, or $22,000 tax-free cash.

As well, you’ll be entered in the Heroes Bonus Draw (worth over $26,000), the Summer Bonus Draw (worth over $31,000), and the Early Bird Draws (worth over $145,000; 51 winners), as well as the Grand Prize Draw – to win one of 10 multi-million dollar options, including a home package worth over $2.7 million or $2.2 million cash!

The Hometown Heroes Lottery is BC’s most affordable hospital home lottery. Tickets start at just 3 for $75, and there’s millions in prizes up for grabs.

Don’t forget to get your tickets for this year’s two extra games: the Daily Cash PLUS also returns for 2022 – with 105 days of winning and $310,000 in total cash prizes – and the 50/50 PLUS jackpot could reach $2.4 million.

Winner takes half. Last year’s 50/50 winner took home $1,103,932. This year, it could be you!

Every ticket changes a life

They’re there when you need them… now it’s your turn to be there for them.

BC’s Hometown Heroes come to the aid of people in life-threatening situations every day. From rescue to recovery, BC’s front-line workers and first responders – our fire fighters, along with the doctors, nurses, and health care teams at Vancouver General Hospital – are always on duty for critically ill and severely injured British Columbians. When you need help, these heroes respond.

Your Hometown Heroes Lottery ticket purchases support VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, raising essential funds for specialized adult health services and research at VGH and UBC Hospital, GF Strong Rehab Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and Vancouver Community Health Services for all British Columbians. Ticket purchases also support programs of the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund, including burn survivor support services and resiliency programs for fire fighters.

HOW TO ORDER

Get your tickets online at Heroes Lottery 

By Phone: 604-648-4376
Toll-Free: 1-866-597-4376

Tickets are also available for purchase in-person at London Drugs stores throughout British Columbia.

Tickets cost 3 for $75 / 7 for $125 / 21 for $300 / 40 for $500

  • 50/50 PLUS tickets are 2 for $15 / 6 for $30 / 20 for $60 / 40 for $80
  • Daily Cash PLUS tickets are 2 for $25 / 6 for $50 / 12 for $75

50/50 PLUS and Daily Cash PLUS tickets can only be purchased if a 2022 Hometown Heroes Lottery main ticket has been purchased.

Where a prize winner has an option(s), they will choose one prize option; the other options will not be awarded.

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Tickets are Going Fast; Enter Now.

CAMPBELL RIVER, BC, May 10, 2022 — The Because You Care Hospital Lottery, presented by the Campbell River Hospital Foundation is their largest annual fundraising event including a 50/50,  and a travel based raffle with the Grand prize of: $20,000 Cash; second place – two tickets to anywhere in the world that WestJet fly’s  and $1,000 Cash;  and third place is two nights at Crystal Cove Resort in Tofino and $1,000 Cash.

With your ticket purchase, it will help them reach their $2 Million Dollar goal to build a Just Like Home Adult Lodge for patients and their loved ones from remote and North Island communities to stay when travelling to Campbell River for medical care that they are not able to receive in their communities. 

This Lodge with help patients Heal Faster, Stay Together, Bond with others, and reduce travel needs and costs.

For more information on how to give your support, please contact us at 250-286-7164.

Thank you to WestJet, The Travel Place/Travel Plus, The Raven 100.7, Peninsula Co-op, and Crystal Cove Resort.

There are only 2,750 tickets, at $40 each or sets of 3 for $100, the can be purchased online at becauseyoucarelottery.com or by phone at 250-286-7164.

Winners will be drawn June 17, 2022.

 

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Hurry, Only Two Days Left!

Vancouver, BC, May 10, 2022 — Help support youth in your community. Play BIG BC Lotto 50/50 to help Big Brothers Big Sisters, and you could win BIG!

2 days left! Get your 50/50 tickets now. The jackpot is currently over $20,000!

Tickets are 3 for $25, 8 for $50, 20 for $100.
Draw date: Friday May 13 at 12 p.m.
Odds are 1 in 16,600!

Big Brothers Big Sisters believes that creating connections between a caring adult and a youth facing life’s challenges ultimately helps them reach their full potential. Mental Health challenges are at an all-time high for youth.  Big Brothers Big Sisters is on the front lines helping youth and their families navigate the mental, economic and educational impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Research shows that a $1 investment in mentorship has an $23 return on society – that is a BIG reward.  

Your support gives young people the chance to have a caring mentor in their lives and realize their full potential. Buy tickets now and support local communities in a BIG way.

Visit www.bigbclotto.ca to buy your tickets!

 

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BC’s Most Affordable Hospital Home Lottery

VANCOUVER, BC, Sunday, May 8, 2022 — You could win multi-millions when you get your Hometown Heroes Lottery tickets – starting at just 3 for $75. It’s the hottest ticket in town! Happy Mother’s Day!

Order today to beat the Welcome Bonus deadline, and you’ll be automatically entered to win a prize draw worth over $26,000. Win and choose a 2022 Mazda 3 GX MT, or a 2022 Toyota Corolla Hatchback, or $22,000 tax-free cash! (Deadline: Midnight, Friday, May 13, 2022.)

With your tickets, you’ll also be automatically entered in two more bonus draws (worth over $57,000 total), the Early Bird draws (worth over $145,000), and of course the Grand Prize Draw – to win and choose a South Surrey home package worth over $2.7 million, a home package worth over $2.5 million in Lake Country, Penticton, Courtenay, Sooke, Langley, North Vancouver, or Vancouver, or $2.2 million tax-free cash.

It’s the most affordable hospital home lottery in B.C. But, with 10 Grand Prize options and over 3,200 total prizes, this year’s Hometown Heroes Lottery has something for everyone! (Tickets start at just 3 for $75.)

The Daily Cash PLUS also returns for 2022 – with 105 days of winning and $310,000 in total cash prizes – and the 50/50 PLUS jackpot could reach $2.4 million.

Winner takes half. Last year’s 50/50 winner took home $1,103,932. This year, it could be you!

Of course, proceeds from each and every ticket purchase benefit your hometown heroes, supporting VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation and the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund.

“The medical teams at VGH, UBC Hospital and many other health care centres under our umbrella – which support all British Columbians – are empowered to offer world-class health care thanks to the generous support of the Hometown Heroes Lottery,” says Angela Chapman, President and CEO of VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation.

“Lottery funds go towards purchasing cutting-edge, life-saving medical equipment and technology and puts it in the hands of our specialized health care teams. These funds today help support the future of health care – for all of us.”

Ticket purchases also support programs of the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund, including burn survivor support services and resiliency programs for fire fighters.

“As the pandemic has continued to challenge our fundraising efforts, we want to thank all British Columbians who have purchased tickets for the Hometown Heroes Lottery,” says Jeff Sauvé, Executive Director of the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund. “Over the past two years, we have taken our survivor support programs virtual to continue to serve burn survivors of all ages. We depended on funds raised from the Hometown Heroes Lottery to keep these vital mental health programs running.”

Our heroes are there when you need them. Now it’s your turn to be there for them.

HOW TO ORDER

Get your tickets online at Heroes Lottery 

By Phone: 604-648-4376
Toll-Free: 1-866-597-4376

Tickets are also available for purchase in-person at London Drugs stores throughout British Columbia.

Tickets cost 3 for $75 / 7 for $125 / 21 for $300 / 40 for $500

  • 50/50 PLUS tickets are 2 for $15 / 6 for $30 / 20 for $60 / 40 for $80
  • Daily Cash PLUS tickets are 2 for $25 / 6 for $50 / 12 for $75

50/50 PLUS and Daily Cash PLUS tickets can only be purchased if a 2022 Hometown Heroes Lottery main ticket has been purchased.

Where a prize winner has an option(s), they will choose one prize option; the other options will not be awarded.

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Buy your tickets now for your chance to win big!
Early Bird deadline is May 9 at 11:59 pm!

VICTORIA, BC, May 8, 2022 — The Emerge Stronger Hospitals Lottery, presented by Abstract Developments, is the newest way you can support Victoria hospitals. The lottery includes a 50/50 raffle, with a jackpot already over $28,000 (one winner takes home half the jackpot) and a prize raffle. You could be the lucky winner of the grand prize: $20,000 cash and airfare for two to anywhere in the world that Air Canada flies.

Your ticket purchase supports the Emerge Stronger campaign, funding over 200 pieces of priority medical equipment. Having new tools on-hand at Royal Jubilee, Victoria General, and Gorge Road hospitals will help Victoria hospitals recover from the lasting effects of the pandemic, reduce patient referrals to the mainland, and invest in innovative technology and research projects. You are helping transforming healthcare for today’s needs and tomorrow’s challenges. This is also a great way for your friends and family to join you in supporting local hospitals—please help us spread the word! Anyone 19+ in BC can purchase a ticket.

Ticket packs can be purchased here starting at just $10 for the 50/50 and $25 for the prize raffle. In addition to the grand prize, you have the chance of winning two fantastic e-bikes as an early bird prize!

Ticket sales for the early bird prize will end on May 9, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. and the draw will occur on May 10, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Ticket sales for the 50/50 and grand prize will end on June 8, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. and the draw will occur on June 10, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. The winning tickets will be drawn using Random Number Generator software and the winner will be contacted by phone by the Victoria Hospitals Foundation.

Please note that no tickets will be purchased by Victoria Hospitals Foundation staff or its Board of Directors or any employee involved with the conduct and management of the ticket raffle. Rules of play are located here.

Should you need any assistance, please call us at 250-519-1750 or email us at [email protected]. We are happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you to Abstract Developments, Air Canada Foundation and Cit-E Cycles, who have made this lottery possible. We also recognize CFAX 1070, Virgin Radio, CTV Vancouver Island, Black Press Media and Used.ca for their generous support.

Thank you and good luck!

Tickets may be sold and purchased only in BC. Chances are 1 in 165,000 (total tickets for sale) to win the 50/50 prize. BC Gaming Event Licence #132883. Chances are 1 in 26,000 (total tickets for sale) to win the Raffle prize. BC Gaming Event Licence #132884. Know your limit, play within it. 19+ to play. Problem Gambling Help Line 1-888-795-6111.

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Buy tickets now for the BIG BC Lotto 50/50!

Vancouver, BC, May 6, 2022 —Help support youth in your community. Play BIG BC Lotto 50/50 to help Big Brothers Big Sisters, and you could win BIG!

The jackpot is currently over $15,500!

Today is YOUR lucky day. Big Brothers Big Sisters organizations across BC are hosting the third Big BC 50/50 Lotto. Get your 50/50 tickets now!

Tickets are 3 for $25, 8 for $50, 20 for $100.
The more you buy – the more chances you have to win.
Draw date: Friday May 13 at 12 p.m.
Odds are 1 in 16,600!

Tickets are 3 for $25, 8 for $50, 20 for $100.
Draw date: Friday May 13 at 12 p.m.

Big Brothers Big Sisters believes that creating connections between a caring adult and a youth facing life’s challenges ultimately helps them reach their full potential. Mental Health challenges are at an all-time high for youth.  Big Brothers Big Sisters is on the front lines helping youth and their families navigate the mental, economic and educational impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Research shows that a $1 investment in mentorship has an $23 return on society – that is a BIG reward.  

Your support gives young people the chance to have a caring mentor in their lives and realize their full potential. Buy tickets now and support local communities in a BIG way.

Visit www.bigbclotto.ca to buy your tickets!

 

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Last Weekend to Buy for the Welcome Bonus!

VANCOUVER, BC, Friday, May 6, 2022 — It’s the last weekend to buy for all of this year’s biggest draws!

Order your Hometown Heroes Lottery today to beat the Welcome Bonus deadline, and you’ll be automatically entered to win a prize draw worth over $26,000. Win and choose a 2022 Mazda 3 GX MT, or a 2022 Toyota Corolla Hatchback, or $22,000 tax-free cash! (Deadline: Midnight, Friday, May 13, 2022.)

With your tickets, you’ll also be automatically entered in two more bonus draws (worth over $57,000 total), the Early Bird draws (worth over $145,000), and of course the Grand Prize Draw – to win and choose a South Surrey home package worth over $2.7 million, a home package worth over $2.5 million in Lake Country, Penticton, Courtenay, Sooke, Langley, North Vancouver, or Vancouver, or $2.2 million tax-free cash.

It’s the most affordable hospital home lottery in B.C. But, with 10 Grand Prize options and over 3,200 total prizes, this year’s Hometown Heroes Lottery has something for everyone! (Tickets start at just 3 for $75.)

The Daily Cash PLUS also returns for 2022 – with 105 days of winning and $310,000 in total cash prizes – and the 50/50 PLUS jackpot could reach $2.4 million.

Winner takes half. Last year’s 50/50 winner took home $1,103,932. This year, it could be you!

Of course, proceeds from each and every ticket purchase benefit your hometown heroes, supporting VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation and the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund.

“The medical teams at VGH, UBC Hospital and many other health care centres under our umbrella – which support all British Columbians – are empowered to offer world-class health care thanks to the generous support of the Hometown Heroes Lottery,” says Angela Chapman, President and CEO of VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation.

“Lottery funds go towards purchasing cutting-edge, life-saving medical equipment and technology and puts it in the hands of our specialized health care teams. These funds today help support the future of health care – for all of us.”

Ticket purchases also support programs of the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund, including burn survivor support services and resiliency programs for fire fighters.

“As the pandemic has continued to challenge our fundraising efforts, we want to thank all British Columbians who have purchased tickets for the Hometown Heroes Lottery,” says Jeff Sauvé, Executive Director of the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund. “Over the past two years, we have taken our survivor support programs virtual to continue to serve burn survivors of all ages. We depended on funds raised from the Hometown Heroes Lottery to keep these vital mental health programs running.”

Our heroes are there when you need them. Now it’s your turn to be there for them.

HOW TO ORDER

Get your tickets online at Heroes Lottery 

By Phone: 604-648-4376
Toll-Free: 1-866-597-4376

Tickets are also available for purchase in-person at London Drugs stores throughout British Columbia.

Tickets cost 3 for $75 / 7 for $125 / 21 for $300 / 40 for $500

  • 50/50 PLUS tickets are 2 for $15 / 6 for $30 / 20 for $60 / 40 for $80
  • Daily Cash PLUS tickets are 2 for $25 / 6 for $50 / 12 for $75

50/50 PLUS and Daily Cash PLUS tickets can only be purchased if a 2022 Hometown Heroes Lottery main ticket has been purchased.

Where a prize winner has an option(s), they will choose one prize option; the other options will not be awarded.

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The Spring Canuck Place 50/50 starts today – buy now for your chance to win half the jackpot!

VANCOUVER, BC, May 4, 2022 — Today you can purchase your tickets for the Canuck Place 50/50, presented by RE/MAX Agents of the Lower Mainland, to support Canuck Place children and families. Enter for your chance to win half the jackpot!

Tickets are 3 for $5, 7 for $10, 50 for $20 or 150 for $50. The winner will split the anticipated $500,000 jackpot with Canuck Place Children’s Hospice. Your ticket purchase will help provide exceptional care for children with life-threatening illnesses and the families who love them in BC and the Yukon. Odds are you will help families in need, buy your tickets now!

Since 2020, the Canuck Place 50/50 has raised $1,467,780. Half has gone to four lucky winners, and half goes to support exceptional care in Canuck Place hospices in Vancouver and Abbotsford, and in communities across BC and the Yukon.

Your ticket purchases will support exceptional care for Canuck Place children and families across BC and the Yukon

Canuck Place is the only pediatric palliative care provider in BC & the Yukon. Canuck Place Children’s Hospice provides complex pediatric palliative care for more than 800 children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. Since 2015 Canuck Place has seen a 34% increase of children and families requiring complex medical care and a 94% increase in outpatient care. Canuck Place patients are the most medically complex and ill children in the province. Your ticket purchase ensures families have special moments and gives short lives the gift of great days.

Thank you to our sponsors

 

About Canuck Place Children’s Hospice

Canuck Place is British Columbia and the Yukon’s only pediatric palliative care provider for children with life-threatening illnesses and the families who love them. Our team of physicians, nurses, counsellors, therapists, staff, and volunteers provide medical respite care, pain and symptom management, a provincial 24-hour clinical care line, art, music, and recreation therapy, end-of-life care, grief, loss, and bereavement counselling in our Vancouver and Abbotsford hospices and in communities across BC and Yukon. All at no cost to the families.

We are here with love, care, and guidance when and where families need us the most. Your ticket purchase today will help make this care possible.

Ticket Sales End: Wednesday, June 8 at midnight PDT
Draw Date:  Friday, June 10 at 11:00 a.m. PDT
Tickets can be purchased by British Columbia residents over 19 years of age.

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The jackpot is growing!

VANCOUVER, BC, May 3, 2022 — Get you Coast Mental Health Foundation’s 50/50 tickets before they sell out. The jackpot is getting bigger and you could still win up to $120,000!

Tickets start from just $10 for one, $25 for 3, $50 for 10 tickets, or $100 for 25. The anticipated jackpot prize of $240,000 will be split with the winner!

When you play the Coast Mental Health Foundation 50/50 Raffle, people living with mental illness here in BC always win and you could take home up to $120,000, too!

You will provide urgently needed support for people living with mental illness right here in BC.

Your tickets could help provide essential services like Cognitive Remediation to people in BC who need them.

One of the most debilitating parts of living with chronic mental illness and addiction can be the cognitive impact. For many, the ability to carry out simple tasks, to remember, organize, reason and problem solve are severely affected. Thanks to your support, Coast’s Cognitive Remediation program combines  CBT, DBT, brain training and physical exercise to train and re-wire the brain.

This can be life changing and can be the first step toward a more independent and fulfilling life.

Services like these are a critical resource for people living with mental illness. You can help.

Tickets start from just $10 – don’t delay, purchase now before they run out.

About Coast Mental Health

As a non-profit organization, Coast Mental Health is BC’s largest provider of community-based services for people living with mental illness. Thanks to supporters like you, we provide the critical link between hospital services and our communities. We are an established leader in our field, known for high quality, innovative programs and research.

Each year, we provide essential services to nearly 6,000 people living with mental illness so they can find their meaningful place in our communities – a place to live, a place to connect, and a place to work.

Thank you for supporting people living with mental illness!

 

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