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THE OAKVILLE BEAVER I W U U U H U U Ji O f Q Wednesday, November 8, 2000 u> 0 EDITION / The best house you can buy for $40 x B y W ilma Blokhuis OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF H arry and Sherrill Southern are still all smiles at their good for tune. Last year, Harry bought his wife the ultimate birthday gift, three tickets for the Oakville Great Dream Home Lottery for $100. One of them made Sherrill a winner. It was the best birthday pre sent she's ever received. "You know, it works both ways," he teased his wife at Thursday's unveiling of the state ly house to be won in this year's sixth annual Oakville Great Dream Home Lottery. Last Easter, the couple moved from their north Oakville house, they purchased six years earlier into a beautiful Mattamy W ideLot Dream Home on Oakhaven Drive. W ith them came their two adult children, Darren, 28, and daughter Lori, 25. "They're still home," quipped Sherrill. And, spending more time at home is Harry, who retired from the Solicitor General's office at the end o f October after 35 years. `T m still working," says Sherrill, who also works for the Solicitor General. "W hen we were moving, our neighbours on both sides didn't know we won the house," said Sherrill. "The place is great, just won derful," said Harry. "I can't believe I had bought a house for $ 100." Other than their good fortune, which allowed them to sell their previous home and become v t. , ,M;a Photo by Barrie Erskine On hand to officially open the sixth Oakville Dream Home were (left to right) Paul Hill, Chair of the Lottery Building Committee, Peter Gilgan, President and CEO Mattamy Homes, Dan Ferrone, Oakville Great Dream Home Lottery Chair, and the winners of the 1999 Dream Home Lottery, Sherill and Harry Southern. Dream Home lottery ticket sales hit 85% m ark The sixth annual Oakville Great Dream Home Lottery is 85% sold out That means, about 59,000 of the 70,000 tickets to be sold have already been purchased. Tickets are $40 each or three for $100. Cut-off date for ticket sales is Nov. 17th at 9 p.m. Proceeds from this year's lottery will bene fit the OTMH (Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital) Charitable Corporation, the Wellspring Cancer Support Foundation, and the Capital Campaign of the Oakville YMCA. Over the past five years, the lottery has raised more than $3 million. The final draw for this year's Dream Home is Nov. 24th, 7 p.m., at Glen Abbey Mattamy Homes Sales Pavillion at 1388 Dundas S t W., at Proudfoot Lane. In addition to the Dream Home, there are 4,400 prizes to be won, including: a seven-day cruise for two to Tahiti, a $20,000 shopping spree at The Bay; a 14 c t sapphire and diamond ring, Kawasaki jet ski, Air Canada vacation for two to Jamaica; home theatre system. Blue Jays sports box, Jones Apparel gift certificate. Bell Mobility phone package, pair of Atomic JR skis, pair of platinum Maple Leaf tickets and framed hockey print, three mountain bikes, 10 web site design packages, 50 JVC audio sys tems, dinner and theatre tickets, 250 cordless phones, golf packages, 100 Sony portable Disc mans, and 2,000 $50 smart cards, among others. The draw for the early bird prize, a canary yellow Dakar 2000 BMW Z3 roadster convert ible valued at over $50,000, is on Nov. 17th at Budd's BMW at 6 p.m. - ticket sale cut-off was Nov. 3rd. Tickets can be ordered at participating Lansing Buildall stores, Mattamy Homes sales offices, Milton District Hospital, the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, the Oakville YMCA, Wellspring Halton-Peel, the Community Foundation of Oakville Lottery Office or call 845-2010. mortgage free, "we're just ordi nary people," noted Sherrill. "Winning hasn't changed us. "We moved Easter Monday, and our new house is just beauti ful, absolutely gorgeous." The couple were among the first to see the new Dream Home at Pine Glen Road and Proudfoot Trail in Upper Glen Abbey, a Mattamy WideLot home on a 60 foot comer lo t And similar to the Southerns' new home, it's located near the Sixteen Mile Creek ravine and walking trails. This year's 3,350 square foot Dream Home valued at $379,268, is a "unique, one-of-akind design," says Peter Gilgan, president of Mattamy Homes. It's the third home his compa ny has built for this lottery. The house was designed by Mattamy's contracted architec tural firm, "which donated its services as did many of the other contributors who either donated their services, material and work, or gave it to us at a reduced cost," said Gilgan. "This lottery is the culmina tion of a lot of peoples' contribu tions," said Gilgan. 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