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Area woman flying high after Tulip Day win
Egmondville
woman wins
Lung
Association's
province -
wide Tulip
Day contest
By Holly Jones
Beacon -Herald Staff
An Egmondville woman
and her husband will get a
second opportunity for a
relaxing honeymoon after she
won a provincewide Tulip
Day contest through the Lung
Association.
When the bunch of brilliant
yellow tulips was delivered to
Cheryle Harris's office at the
Community Care Access
Centre in Stratford March 1,
she noticed a card attached
showing a website where she
could enter to win a trip to
anywhere in North America
that Northwestern Airlines
flies.
She had a
couple of
minutes left
in her lunch
break and
decided to
quickly go to
the website
and fill in the
f or m,
thinking she'd
never hear
anything of it
again.
"I never
win anything,
really," she
said at the
Lung
Association's
Stratford
office when
she stopped
by to claim
her prize
Wednesday.
THE LUNG
ASS() ATION
Robin Wilhelm photo
Cheryle Harris, right, of Egmondville, was flying high recently after she won a provincewide Tulip Day contest through the Lung Association. Presenting the
award was volunteer and fund development co-ordinator Chris -Kilpatrick, left.
job and with her husband
busy setting up a new make -
your -own
wine
business,
the pair had
Quoted
`We're really very
excited that Cheryle
was the winner from,
across the province.
She was one of
potentially
thousands who
entered the contest,
so the odds of
Huron -Perth having
a winner (were not
high),' -
Lung Association's
volunteer and fund
development co-ordinator
Chris Kilpatrick
The trip will be a second
belated honeymoon for her
and her husband, whom she
married in August 2003.
Having been busy at her
their destination
with misadventures that
ranged from a forgotten birth
certificate to car troubles to
and from the airport to flight
opted to
delay their
honeymoon
until
February of
this year.
They
decided on
a nice,
relaxing
winter
vacation in
Florida.
While the
time they
had in
Florida was
enjoyable,
their travel
to and from
was riddled
delays.
"That was in February,"
Harris recalled. "We found
out about this a month later.
It'll make up for a bad flight."
It was difficult for Ms.
Harris to speculate on where
she wanted to go; however,
she thought Nova Scotia
would be a nice or perhaps
somewhere warm for next
winter. She has a year in
which to take her flight.
The Lung Association's
volunteer and fund
development co-ordinator
Chris Kilpatrick was
particularly pleased that
someone in the Huron -Perth
district won the prize out of
all the people who entered
online in Ontario.
"We're really very excited
that Cheryle was the winner
from across the province,"
she said. "She was one of
potentially thousands who
entered the contest, so the
odds of Huron -Perth having a
winner (were not high)."
The prize was donated by
Northwestern and KLM
airlines.
ATTENTION HURON EAST
BUSINESSES & RESIDENTS
You are invited to attend these
three public meetings
at the Mennonite Community Church
250 Princess St., Brussels
Wednesday, April 27
Brussels Business Group
12 noon
Brussels First Impressions Exchange
with Watford, Ont.
12:30 p.m.
Ministry of Municipal Affairs
Brussels & Huron East Marketing Study
7 p.m.
Sponsored by Huron East Economic Development
& Huron East Chamber of Commerce
Three new free vaccines have been introduced into your child's
immunization schedule. These vaccines are for chicken pox,
meningococcal rneningit is and pneumococcal diseases. For more
information. talk to your doctor or local public health unit. Visit:
www.health.gov.on.ca. Or call 1-877-234-4343, TTY 1-800-387-5559.
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