About That Lottery Rant Of Yours . . .
26/09/2008 05:23
Hi Don,
Read your column about the big lotteries. This isn't the first time competition has flooded the marketplace.
The Kinsmen Club of St. Albert used to run one of the biggest home lotteries in the province (I believe it may also have been the first). It raised hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in the early eighties, but then the hospitals and others started to creep into the marketplace hiring big PR and marketing firms to run the lotteries for them.
The volunteers with the Kinsmen couldn't compete and when proceeds dropped dramatically, the Kinsmen Dream House lottery ultimately had to fold.
Just a little St. Albert / Alberta history for you...
Neil Korotash
St. Albert
SINC SAYS:
Now there is something I did not know Neil. Thanks for the edumacation.
