by Penny Reeder
Do you know anyone who would enjoy winning $10,000? Could your local ACB chapter, or the school who trained you and your guide dog, or the organization that provides readers or computer training to you and other visually impaired people in your community, or your church, your library, or your friends, family members, or even you, yourself, use a little infusion of cash? Say, an extra $200, $300, $500, or $10,000?
ACB will hold a drawing for these amounts during the reception just prior to the annual ACB banquet on Friday evening of convention week. Tickets cost $100, and since a maximum of only 300 tickets will be sold, your chances of winning one of the four prizes (including the big enchilada of $10,000) are pretty darned good! You do not have to be present at the drawing to win, and if the fates are smiling in your direction, you could win as much as $11,000 — since we’ll be putting even the tickets of fourth ($200), third ($300), and second-place winners ($500) back into the hat for the big drawing. Up to five individuals can combine resources to purchase a single hundred-dollar ticket, so for an investment of a mere $20, you can be benefitting a worthwhile cause (sending deserving visually impaired students off to post-secondary training opportunities) while taking advantage of the chance to win a substantial sum of money!
Tickets for the drawing which will benefit the ACB scholarship program are expected to go on sale at ACB’s legislative seminar at the end of February. The Northern Virginia chapter of the Old Dominion Council of the Blind came up with this creative fund-raising idea. Our hats are off to NOVA, who, along with the ACB national office are administering this drawing. To obtain tickets for purchase or sale, contact Terry Pacheco, Membership and Affiliate Services Coordinator, in the ACB national office. Terry can be reached at (202) 467-5081, or toll-free between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. at (800) 424-8666. You may also contact her by electronic mail, tpacheco@acb.org.
Don’t delay! Order your tickets for purchase or sale today! Next year’s scholarship winners will thank you, and so will your friends and family, when they, or you, bring home a big prize!