CARIBOU, Maine — The Caribou Rotary Club has started selling tickets for the 2015 Cash Draw — the service club’s biggest fundraiser of the year.
“We’re off to a great start,” said Austin Bleess, the Caribou Rotary Club president-elect and chair of the 2015 Cash Draw.
The Cash Draw not only awards sizable cash prizes to ticket-holders, but also assists in a myriad of community projects. In past years, the club helped sponsor the High School Ski Building, dugouts for the Sincock Street Ballfield, and the recently installed playground equipment at Hilltop Elementary School.
Donations help the Rotary Club continue their support of the Caribou Recreation Department, the Caribou School System, Caribou Little League, and to provide bicycle helmets to third-graders in Caribou and four of its surrounding communities each year.
“If you live in Caribou or the central Aroostook region,” said Bleess, “chances are very good that you or someone you know has benefited from a Rotary project or donation.”
The Rotary Club sells no more than 1,000 tickets and offers 50 cash prizes, meaning that each ticket-holder has a one in 20 chance of winning. Each ticket also includes admission to the Dec. 12 drawing and dance, held at the Caribou Inn and Convention Center at 6:30 p.m.
First prize is $6,000, second is $5,000, and third is $4,000. Additionally, there is one $1,000 and $500 prize, five $250 prizes, and 40 $100 prizes. There is also a $500 Early Bird Drawing for tickets paid for by Nov. 14.
“Currently we have 322 tickets sold,” said Bleess on Monday, “which means we have 678 left to sell.”
Anyone interested in buying a ticket can obtain one for any Caribou Rotarian or by going online and visiting www.caribourotary.org.
