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25 | Thursday, December 15, 2016 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Woman finds housekeeper on wish list at supermarket by Julia Le Oakville Beaver Staff Andree Uhlig won't be lifting a finger to clean her condo for the foreseeable future. The 80-year-old Oakville resident won $2,500 worth of housekeeping services through Food Basics' I Want It All contest, which has been granting seven Ontarians' wishes just in time for the holidays. With her grocery list and weekly flyer in hand Monday (Dec. 12), Uhlig was surprised with the news by Food Basics staff. Uhlig had been told she had won $250 worth of free groceries and was doing some shopping with it when staff approached her with the giant cheque for the cleaning services. She was among more than 900 people from across Ontario who had submitted a short video clip during the summer at Food Basics stores, sharing what they would do if they didn't have to worry about purchasing groceries for a year. Uhlig, who shops regularly at the Food Basics grocery store on Dundas Street at Neyagawa Boulevard, said she would hire a housekeeper to help around her home. "Now that I know I don't have to clean, it' s perfect," she said, smiling ear-to-ear as she was reminded of the "wish" she had made during the summer. These days, her cleaning routine entails tackling one task or room in her home each Andree Uhlig, right, won a $ 2 5 0 shopping spree at Food Basics, at Dundas Street and 3 Boulevard, by entering a video last summer a s part of the Food Basics I Want It All Contest, but she didn't know until partway through her shopping spree that she had also won a year's worth of free housekeeping. Pictured, Uhlig reacts to seeing the large cheque, stating she'd won the year's worth of housekeeping. Beside her is Food Basics representative Marija Rapaic. | Graham Paine/Metroland day, such as her bedroom one day and the kitchen on the next. "I don't do it all in one day like I used to," she said. She's looking forward to someone else having to clean all the dirty spots on her laminate floors, her least favourite task, Uhlig added. With her newfound time, she'll spend it reading, she shared. Uhlig also expressed how lucky she feels to win the contest and to be living in Oakville. She moved to the community from Oshawa two and a half years ago and says it's a place she's fallen in love with. "It's beautiful. I like the trees and the landscaping," she said. "This morning, I had never seen it with the snow on the trees and I don't like the roads and all of this, but the snow on evergreens this morning was absolutely gorgeous." The senior said she's looking forward to purchasing holiday treats and sharing it with her daughter in Carlisle over Christmas. Others who have been awarded by the grocery chain include a grandmother from Ajax, who wants to go to England to see her grandchildren for the first time; a couple from North Bay that has been given a travel voucher to go anywhere in the world to celebrate their 50th anniversary; and, a single mother in Sudbury, who was given money so her child could play h° ckey Ir r e s is tib le G if t s o f th e Se aso n 'JlrfCulatl' MILK fo llo w us: o o w alkerschocolates.ca H a m ilto n | B u rlin g to n | O a k v ille