Who’s going to catch the ace of spades this time?
In any case, it will help with health care in Madawaska Valley.
St. Francis Valley Health Care Foundation is about to start its sixth Catch the Ace lottery. The funds raised will go to new equipment at the Barry’s Bay hospital.
Catch the Ace is a popular lottery system, in which people buy tickets with a portion of funds going for a weekly prize and another portion going to a charity. But, another portion of funds goes into a jackpot that gets bigger and bigger for up to 52 weeks.
Each weekly winner draws a card and if the ace of spades comes up, they win the jackpot.
Five-dollar tickets are being sold at various stores in Barry’s Bay; people can watch for posters.
Foundation Director Erin Gienow said the lottery system has been remarkably successful.
The previous Catch the Ace program, which ended in August, raised more than $120,000 for St. Francis Hospital. The money funded a wireless x-ray machine.
And a jackpot of more than eighty-two thousand dollars went to a Barry’s Bay woman.
The five previous Catch the Ace lotteries have combined to raise more than a half million dollars for local health care needs.
Weekly draws will begin to take place on Thursday afternoons. Winners will be announced through the Foundation’s social media.