By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

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Red Deer, Halkirk residents win big in 2019 Hospital Lottery

Jul 5, 2019 | 1:50 PM

Two central Albertans are pinching themselves after finding out they’ve won the grand prizes for this year’s Red Deer Regional Health Foundation Hospital Lottery.

Draws were held at the dream home (68 Larratt Close) Friday morning for the lottery which sold around 80 per cent of all tickets available for the house, and sold out for the 50/50.

Gary Green, a 20-year Red Deer resident, is the winner of the $840,000 Sorento Custom Homes abode.

“I didn’t really believe it. I didn’t know what to say because I thought the draw was tomorrow,” he admits of taking the call from the foundation.

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“I buy tickets on pretty much all the dream homes here. The hospital needs some more upgrades and whatever they can get there. I had a heart attack in 2003 and never stayed in there, but my dad did and so did my father-in-law.”

Green says he has to speak with his wife first before deciding whether or not they’ll move in.

Meantime, Doris Cordel, a lifelong resident of Halkirk, a village east of Stettler, is this year’s winner of $250,000.

“The first thing I thught was why is Red Deer Hospital calling me? Then it was oh my goodness, that doesn’t sound possible. It’s just a shock to win. I was thinking I must’ve won something, but to win that large of a prize is amazing,” she says, although she has no idea what she’s going to do with it just yet.”

“If we need a big hospital, Red Deer is going to be where we go. Stettler would be our first stop, but if we need anything else we’d be in Red Deer. Most of my family has at one time been in Red Deer Hospital.”

Funds raised from this year’s lottery will go towards the purchase of automated medication machines called Pyxis Medstations.

Full results will be available soon at reddeerhospitallottery.ca.