If you’d like a new home this year and you like buying lottery tickets, the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) kicked off it’s annual lottery January 16, this year offering up four show homes located in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, and Lethbridge.
The lottery is also giving out early bird prizes to people buying tickets before March 5 -100,000 in cash, a 2014 BMW 435i xDrive, and a vacation in Las Vegas for three nights plus five thousand dollars.
Cam Heke with STARS Communications said one million, one hundred thirty three thousand tickets have been printed.
STARS operates 7 days a week, 24 hours a day from three bases in Alberta - Calgary, Edmonton and Grande Prairie. The organization is charitable and non-profit, and they say their lottery is their single largest source of funding in Alberta.
“In 2013 STARS responded to more than 1,600 emergencies from our three bases in Alberta,” said STARS president and CEO Andrea Robertson. “The funds we raise through the STARS lottery are vital to keeping STARS in the sky.”
The STARS lottery is also offering 10 vehicles, 30 vacations, over 1,900 electronic prizes, and over one thousand other prizes that include cash, furniture, jewellery and luggage.
Tickets are available by phone at 1-888-880-0992 or visting their website www.starslotteryalberta.ca
The new STARS helicopter recently visited the Drumheller Airport on Friday, January 24.
