TD.com Raffle Ticket Give Away...Winners Announced...

We are doing a special give away (Raffle Ticket for chance to win $10,000) to help out Grace House of New Orleans. Before I get to the give away part:

As some of you know, my family has been involved with helping out the Bridge House and Grace House charities in New Orleans for a number of years. Both of these charities (which merged together a few years ago) serve as substance-abuse treatment centers of last resort (Bridge House for men, and Grace House for women). They accept and treat those to whom most other institutions deny admission: the homeless and indigent drug and alcohol abusers of our community.

As you can imagine, charitable donations go down in tough economies, so TD.com is trying its best to help these two charities raise some much needed money to help fund their operations.

I encourage anyone with the means to consider donating to their causes. I know some of you have donated to these charities in the last fews weeks, and we truly appreciate it.

Website Info:
bridgehouse.org
gracehouseneworleans.org

Now, for the give away. Grace House has a fund-raising event coming up called the Gumbo Gala. The Gumbo Gala will be held on October 9, 2009 at Southport Hall from 8pm to midnight and includes the chance to win a $10,000 raffle.

The Gumbo Gala will feature gumbo from numerous New Orleans fine restaurants and chefs, including beverages and an evening of musical entertainment.

It costs $100 for you and a guest to attend the event. This $100 also gets you an entry into the $10,000 raffle. You don't have to attend the event to enter the raffle, so you out-of-towners can donate $100 and still get a chance to win.

TD.com will give away five raffle entries. In order to qualify for the give away, you just have to post in this thread. I will randomly pick five winners on Thursday, October 8th at noon. If you are announced as a raffle entry winner, please be prepared to send me your contact info so I can pass it along to the event coordinator. Please note that posting more than once in the thread does not increase your chances of being picked.

UPDATE: The following users were picked:
1. sfurnish
2. tigervet4
3. tsjennin
4. panama city tigerfan
5. nicklsu

The five raffle tickets were purchased in my name. I have asked them to put 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 next to each one, to correspond to the names above. If one of you happens to win, I will contact you to get your information.

They are only selling 300 raffle tickets and the last ticket drawn of the 300 will win $10,000.00 (it's a reverse raffle).

Once it gets down to the final five raffle tickets, the people left can choose whether to split the pot, or keep going. If at least one person remaining has specified that he/she wants to go all the way, they will eliminate another raffle ticket.

I have already specified that each of the TD.com raffle tickets will opt to split the pot if given the chance.

Click here for more info on the Gumbo Gala. If you have any questions about the event, please feel free to contact Michelle Gaiennie at (504) 899-2423 ext.11 or mgaiennie@gracehouseneworleans.org.