Hip-hip, hooray.
Mark Hippe of Prince George is the winner of the 43rd annual Spruce Kings Show Home Lottery, claiming a fully-furnished 865-thousand dollar home on 2958 Links Drive in the Aberdeen Glen subdivision.
Hippe bought his ticket on Wednesday at Canadian Tire located in College Heights.
Spruce Kings Business Operations Manager, Kyle Anderson told the media that the yearly lotto is crucial given they are a community-owned team.
“We spend more nights in hotel than anyone in our league. We spent 39 nights in hotels this year – that is two players to a room and we book 16 hotel rooms every trip across the province and every hotel night is equal to about three meals.”
“We want to be part of the community with everything we do. We do school visits and community events when we are not on the road. We want to be in the community because they have supported us for so long. To be community-owned, is essentially the community supports with tickets sales for game nights and then our corporate sponsors as well as our lotteries.”
Anderson selling 1,000 home lottery tickets during the final 48 hours was a bit of a blur.
“I wasn’t sure what to expect when I came here Wednesday morning when I decided to do a Facebook live video and say we are trying to set a record of 1,000 tickets in a day and to get to 796 is a rush is probably the best word to describe what that felt like.”
The Spruce Kings yearly hockey operations budget is roughly one-million dollars each year.
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