RR woman wins $10,000 in Knights of Columbus raffle!

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Editor’s Note: Donna Ivall of Rainy River won 12th prize over the weekend. She won $10,000!

Operating for over 40 years, the Ontario Knights of Columbus Charity Raffle was initially known as the C.A.R.S Raffle and the prizes consisted of 10 cars. The reason for this was that the raffle was instituted to provide assistance to the Canadian Arthritis Society (CARS) and that organization has been the primary recipient of funds from that raffle for every year of operation.
The raffle is provincially licensed under the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission and the license is held by the Knights of Columbus Ontario Charity Foundation Inc. The raffle is administered by the Ontario State Office under the authority of the Foundation’s Board of Directors.
In order to provide purchasing opportunities for as many Ontario residents as possible, tickets are sold by members of the more than 500 local subordinate councils of the Knights of Columbus in Ontario. The councils act as selling agents for the license holder. In consideration of this the councils receive 5% of their gross sales as a commission.
Tickets are normally available for sale from individual knights or at other commercial outlets like shopping malls from November each year until the draw date which always falls on the Sunday of the Victoria Day weekend in May.
The raffle has evolved over the years to its present prize board of 8 vehicles and 13 cash prizes (1 X $50,000, 1 X $25,000, 5 X $10,000 and 6 X $5,000). The recipients of the charitable funds derived from this project has now grown beyond just the Arthritis Society, which is now specifically the Ontario Division of the Arthritis Society in order to abide with the Lottery Commission rules and regulationsIn addition to the donations made by the Foundation, 35% of the gross sales are returned to the local councils for their donations to their local charities which comply with the list of recipients published by the Foundation.