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THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 • MERRITT NEWSPAPERS
THE CUTTING EDGE Fifty-two-year-old Horst Lehman, from Hefley Lake north of Kamloops, tries his hand at competitive slalom water skiing at the Grasslands Open on Saturday. The two-day competition, held on Shumway Lake halfway between Merritt and Kamloops on Highway 5A, attracted skiers from as far away as Prince George and Calgary. Merritt’s Dawson Sulz also took in the competition. He and his two daughters have joined the Kamloops Water Ski Club. Full story on page 22. Ian Webster/Herald
Merritt woman wins Kamloops dream home By Michael Potestio THE HERALD
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Merritt resident Sally Wong was in Kamloops on Tuesday to tour and receive the keys to her new house after winning the $588,000 top prize in the Kamloops YMCA-YWCA dream home lottery. Wong toured the house, located on Rockcress Drive in the Dufferin area of
Kamloops, with her sister Rhonda and nieces Jasmine and Adair. The modern, 3,000-square-foot home was conscutructed by the Thompson Rivers School of Trades and Technology and CHBA-Central Interior. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom house also has a 1,000 square foot basement. Wong described the initial feeling of winning the home on July 5 as “unreal” — and
a feeling that hasn’t quite sunk in yet. “I didn’t know the magnitude of the prize. I would have settled for a car,” she said with a laugh. “It doesn’t happen to people every day.” Wong currently lives in Merritt but commutes to Kamloops every day for work at the Ministry of Ctizens’ Services and Open Government. She said the commute gets exhausting,
especially in the winter. Wong said she will be living in her new home in Kamloops and has no plans to sell the house. She told the Herald she was out of town when the dream home was awarded, visiting her brother in the Lower Mainland. She was initially tipped off after listening to a voicemail from a co-worker. Wong said she then received many text mes-
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sages congratulating her on winning. The final confirmation was when she checked the Kamloops YMCAYWCA website and saw that she had won. Wong said this year was just the second time she has bought a ticket for the Y dream home lottery and only purchased a single ticket. “I guess that’s why they call it the lottery, because it’s just the luck of the draw,”
she said. The Kamloops YMCAYWCA house draw sold all 10,500 of its available tickets. The odds of winning were just one in 10,500. Wong told the Herald she’d like to acknowledge the tradespeople who worked on the construction of the home and thank the Kamloops YMCA-YWCA, its supporters and sponsors and said the home is a generous prize.
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