Sarnia-Lambton residents have another chance to "catch the ace" while helping out an area nonprofit.
Habitat for Humanity Sarnia-Lambton has re-launched its first Catch the Ace raffle to support its Home Build Program.
CEO David Waters said they had originally launched the fundraiser before the most recent lockdown came into effect.
"It was unfortunate that we only had a couple days of sales, so we're excited to get it up and running again and see if the community will respond to it and spend some dollars on the program for us," he said.
Waters said tickets are $2, there are just 961 available each week and they can be purchased at Habitat's ReStore on London Line. Draws are held every Monday at 10 a.m.
He said it's not a typical fundraiser for the organization.
"Obviously when COVID hit in 2020, a lot of different nonprofits looked at different ways to fundraise because things we're impacted. All of our fundraising venues and events that we normally held couldn't be held, so like all of the other ones, I think we've been floating this around for months and we just decided to dive in and give it a shot."
Waters said the maximum prize board to be awarded will be $50,000 and they're hoping to raise the same amount.
St. Joseph's Hospice launched its Catch the Ace lottery earlier this month.
Meanwhile, the aforementioned ReStore reopened Friday as Ontario entered Stage One of the reopening roadmap.
Waters said the calls had been fast and furious for weeks about when people can get back in to shop.
"We ran an online store which was fairly successful -- it was something that we hadn't done before -- but we're just excited to have the customers back and see the faces that we generally see on a daily basis."
Waters said shoppers liked the online store, but most prefer in-person shopping.
"The ReStore is sort of a unique place. It's that hidden gem that you find amongst other things, and we can't obviously advertise everything we have in the store online, there's just too many things, so we stick to the major items, like furniture and desks and chairs and stuff like that."
Waters said the ReStore helps generate enough dollars to cover all of their administration costs, and it knocks several hundred-thousand dollars into their build program every year. He said it's the driving force of the organization.
