Opinion: Support our Lions – win Christmas cash

In the next month and a half you are going to see the Tofield Lions Club at a number of events with a table set up to sell its Cash Draw tickets.

Buy one. If you can afford it, buy several.

Tofield Lions Club will be having its draw on Dec. 10 for cash prizes in the amounts of $15,000, $7,000, $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000.

With the small amount of tickets they have been able to sell so far, the ticket buyer presently has roughly a one-in-160 chance of winning one of the above five draws.

Now if you divide the total amount of cash by the five draws, a ticket purchaser has a 1/160 chance of winning $5,600. Eight tickets means you have a 1/20 chance of winning $5,600.

That’s the good news.

The bad news is that the Tofield Lions Club, 22 members strong, has a chance of losing between $15,000 and $20,000 on the entire project not including a whole lot of blood, sweat and tears.

Considering our Lions donate some $12,000 a year mostly to childrens and youth projects with little to no acclaim, it might be nice for the community to rally around them and sup- port this draw as it rounds the corner for the home stretch.
Kerry Anderson