It was 'time to end on a good note,' co-ordinator says, as popular Sudbury home lottery winds down

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 11, 2025 5:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

The Sudbury Kinsmen is ending its fashionable location lottery aft 40 years, with the Kinsmen Showcase Sweepstakes co-ordinator citing mounting costs to physique homes arsenic good arsenic aging members.

Mary Jane Drury, who has been co-ordinating the sweepstakes for the past 22 years, says the nine conscionable doesn't person capable members to support going. 

"You've got a nine of 7 members, aging members … costs are rising, people's disposable income is becoming little with the outgo of everything going up, truthful it was clip to extremity connected a bully note," Drury told CBC News.

"It's been a travel that the Kinsmen person enjoyed taking with the public. We can't convey the nationalist capable for their support."

'It's important for the charities'

The Kinsmen nine has been giving radical a accidental to triumph a location successful their yearly Showcase Sweepstakes for the past 40 years, raising a full of $15 cardinal for section charities. 

"It's important for the charities that are receiving the funding. All the nett raised from the location and the 50/50 [draw] spell to section charities each year," Drury said.

"I was looking backmost [and] there's been implicit 50 section charities and astir apt much — I tin lone spell backmost connected my database that I person from 22 years, but I'd accidental astir apt 100 section charities person benefited greatly." 

She added that it's been a joyousness co-ordinating the sweepstakes.

"I emotion to spot the people's faces erstwhile they travel in. I admit being capable to interact with them. I similar to perceive what they like, what they don't like, you know, however we could hole what they don't like," Drury said.

In January, the nine shared a statement of the location that is up for grabs this year. Located connected Nottingham Avenue, crossed from Hazelton Drive, the radical says the location is "a stunning sanctuary." 

"This elegant slab-on-grade location embodies the cleanable blend of modern convenience and timeless comfort, implicit with in-floor heating for cozy, year-round living," the radical posted connected societal media.

The location volition beryllium opened to the nationalist connected Saturday astatine 11 a.m. with the gully scheduled for June 8. 

Drury says each twelvemonth she looks guardant to calling the winner.

"It's phenomenal," she said. "The idiosyncratic connected the different extremity of people doesn't judge us. We invitation them of people to telephone back. It's the champion feeling for everybody."