Winning Y Dream Home par for the course
Fourteen years of buying the $100 Y Dream Home lottery ticket finally paid off for a Logan Lake couple.Bruce and Della Campbell are the grand-prize winners of an almost $700,000 home at Sun Rivers Golf Resort.
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Updated: July 03, 2009 2:13 PM
Fourteen years of buying the $100 Y Dream Home lottery ticket finally paid off for a Logan Lake couple.
Bruce and Della Campbell are the grand-prize winners of an almost $700,000 home at Sun Rivers Golf Resort.
Bruce wasn't in attendance for the draw.
Instead, he was on a fairway at the Shuswap Lake Estates Golf Club when the marshal told him there was a phone call he should take.
Y CEO Colin Reid was on the line to give Bruce the good news.
"I was just plain excited. For the next three holes, I couldn't even concentrate on hitting the ball," Campbell told KTW. "I was shaking. But, after the adrenaline rush wore off, I was back to normal."
Della was notified at Canada Post headquarters in Logan Lake, where she works.
"I'm confused, anxious and nervous," Della said frantically during a phone interview on Thursday evening. "I'm all out of breath, I don't even know what to say."
She is now pondering joining her husband in retirement as a result of their luck.
The Campbells have yet to decide if they will keep or sell their new acquisition.
They may be swayed to hold onto the property, however, as one of their granddaughters has already booked a sleepover in the 4,300-square-foot home, which overlooks the Thompson Valley.
Y Dream Home marketing director Bryce Herman deemed the event a complete success.
"It's always a great day when you're able to give away just under a million dollars in prizes," he said "We've had a great morning."
But it wasn't just the Campbells and other prize-winners who benefitted from the lottery, according to YMCA/YWCA Kamloops CEO Colin Reid.
"This is the largest fundraiser that the kamloops YMCA/YWCA does," Reid said.
"This year, the dollars are being used to help families who are less fortunate, young children in the Y youth program and, in particular, to help with the Y's summer camp, Camp Dekka."
Reid praised the hard work of all who were involved in making the event a success, including the Thompson Rivers University trades and technology students who helped design and build the home.
"This is a win for everybody that's involved — for the homebuilders, the students, the business community and the charitable community.
"We couldn't do this project if we didn't have the support of all of those components."
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