High Tea 50/50 sends winner home with $4,945, same total going to St. Joseph’s Home and Carmel Hospice

By Medicine Hat News on April 6, 2022.

St. Joseph's Home site administrator Ryan Wiest presents winner George Kambeitz with a big cheque on March 30 worth $4,945 - half the total pot of Covenant Foundation's recent High Tea 50/50 raffle.--SUBMITTED PHOTO

George Kambeitz took home the Covenant Health Foundation’s High Tea 50/50 grand prize of $4,945 last week, with the remaining $4,945 going to support St. Joseph’s Home and Carmel Hospice.

Nearly 6,500 tickets were sold in the second year of the 50/50 – created in place of the annual High Tea as a result of the pandemic. Half the $9,890 raised will go toward initiatives “from compassionate programs and services to leading-edge research and education, and state-of-the-art equipment,” according to a Covenant release.

“Congratulations to our winner, George, and thank you to everyone who participated in the High Tea 50/50 cash raffle,” Chris Fujita, development and events co-ordinator at Covenant Foundation, says in the release. “We’re incredibly grateful for the tremendous support our raffle received from the Medicine Hat community – it all goes right back to helping patients, residents, their families and health-care teams at St. Joseph’s Home and Carmel Hospice.”

Colleen Livingston took home the raffle’s bonus prize, an Elkwater golf getaway for two.