Hagersville Lions running “Catch the Ace” in support WHHHF and food bank

By Dan Matten, Hagersville Lions President

To The Haldimand Press

HAGERSVILLE—After months of preparation and working with the AGCO, the Hagersville Lions have received our lottery license for the “Catch the Ace” raffle. The Hagersville Lions, in partnership with the Hagersville Chamber of Commerce, is holding this lottery in support of the West Haldimand Hospital & Healthcare Foundation and the Hagersville Food Bank.

Catch the Ace is a variation of a 50/50 raffle. In this case, 50% for the winnings are split with 20% for the winner of the weekly draw and 30% for the progressive jackpot; the other 50% is for the supported causes.

In preparation for Catch the Ace, we took a new deck of 52 playing cards and put each card into a separate envelope. After tumbling them in a raffle drum, we pulled them out individually and numbered the envelopes from 1 to 52. This verifies that no one knows what card is in each envelope.

On tickets purchased, players must choose a number between 1 and 52 – with the exception of numbers already chosen in previous week’s draws (as displayed on our play-board). All tickets sold go into the raffle drum with the draw for the winning ticket to be held at 8 p.m. each Thursday.