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The Oakville Beaver, F rida y S e p te m b e r 19, 2003 - 5 Great Dream Home Family Lottery benefit three local charities By Wilma Blokhuis OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF PUBLIC NOTICE Citizen Appointments to the Community Advisory Committee to Petro-Canada You can win a $440,000 Dream Home for just one $40 ticket, but buying three tickets for $100 will increase your chances of winning threefold. Tickets are now on sale for the ninth annual Great Dream Home Family Lottery. At the lottery's launch on Monday to announce the four recipients of this year's proceeds, 3,272 of the 70,000 tickets had already been sold. Sharing lottery proceeds will be the Special Skills Dogs program of the Lions Foundation of Canada, Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital Charitable Corporation, Halton Women's Place and the Community Foundation of Ontario Endowment for Children and Youth in Recreation fund. The Dream Home, a 3,290 square foot four-bedroom Mattamy WideLot home with 3.5 bathrooms including a whirlpool in the master bathroom, a gourmet kitchen with granite countertops and three deluxe appliances, a cold cellar, ceramic tiling and hardwood flooring, is to be built in Upper Glen Abbey West by Mattamy Homes. The prize includes a landscape package. It is the grand prize among 1,795 prizes to be won this year. Other prizes include $50,000 tax-free cash, a Jeep Liberty, Chrysler Sebring convertible, seven-night Disney cruise for a family of four, return airfare for two anywhere in the world, a week for two in Tahiti, a Caribbean cruise for two and a 42-inch plasma screen TV and home theatre system with DVD, VCR and sound system. The prizes will be drawn on Nov. 27 and 28. The last day to buy tickets is Nov. 17. The Dream Home lottery, run under the auspices of the Community Foundation of Oakville (CFO), has injected $5.2 million into the community, said Dan Ferrone, Lottery Chair. "We're hoping to surpass the. $6 million mark this year. Organizations that have benefited from lottery proceeds over the years include the Canadian Red Cross Society, United Way of Oakville, Ontario Special Olympics, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Wellspring, Ian Anderson House, Oakville Heritage Trails and the Oakville YMCA "Since the CFO started in 1994, we have accumulated $8 million in endowment and managed funds, making us the 13th largest community foun dation in Canada," said Adrian Coote, CFO chair. Winsor Pepall of the OTMH Charitable Corporation said the hospital's share of the lottery proceeds will be used to buy new equipment for its diagnostic imaging depart ment. "Our goal this year is to raise $2.9 million to buy equip ment. We receive government funding to cover building and operation costs, but not to buy equipment. Funds to buy equipment must be raised in the community. "OTMH has been the recip ient of $1.6 million in lottery funds and we're very grateful to be included again this year," concluded Pepall. Halton Women's Place (HWP) will use its share of the lottery proceeds to purchase furniture and equipment for its new 20-bed facility that opened in Milton last January. "Since three months after we opened the new facility, we've been operating at 125 per cent of capacity, helping 27 - 30 women at a time and we're having ,to turn people away. Domestic violence is on the rise - at least the reporting of it - and more women are looking for services and safe shelter for themselves and their children, plus education through out outreach pro gram." To order tickets by phone, call 1-877-883-3300 or 416883-3300. For more information, visit www.oakvillelottery.ca. PFTR O CAN AD A' Applications are now being accepted for membership on the C om m unity Advisory Com m ittee to Petro-Canada. T he Com m ittee s m andate is to work cooperatively with Petro-Canada Refinery, in reducing negative environmental impacts on the com -m unity and to investigate com m unity complaints and to make recommendations concern-ing the environmental effects o f Petro-Canada's operations at the Oakville Refinery on the local community. Members o f the public are invited to subm it their expressions o f interest in serving on the Com m ittee, accompanied by a resume o u tlining educational, business, technical, and com -m unity experience. Applicants should please note that meetings are held on the fourth Thursday o f every m onth, at 3:30 p.m. at the Oakville Refinery site. Applications m ust reach the Clerks D epartm ent o f the Town o f Oakville no later than 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, O ct. 1, 2003. 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