Car raffle raises over $50,000 for Bethell Hospice 

By Zachary Roman 

A woman from Norval and her family are the lucky winners of a brand new Lincoln Corsair SUV. 

Val May bought one of the over 2,000 tickets that were sold in the Bethell Hospice Foundation's (BHF) 2022 car raffle. A Bolton car dealership, Fines Ford Lincoln, donated the Corsair at no charge to the BHF, which raised over $50,000 by raffling it off.  

The raffle was held as part of ongoing fundraising efforts to support the work done at Bethell Hospice, a not-for-profit hospice care home in Inglewood that provides care at no charge to those it serves. It recently received accreditation for a three-year term from Hospice Palliative Care Ontario for providing the highest standards of service and care. 

May and her family were extremely happy and grateful to have won the vehicle, and attended Fines Ford Lincoln for a “handing over the keys” celebration. 

Bob Fines, Dealer Principal at Fines Ford Lincoln; Carlos Martins, the dealership's General Manager; BHF senior manager of Marketing and Communications Kelly Stronach; and Chair of the BHF board, John Sanderson, were all in attendance for the celebration. 

Fines is a member of the Bethell Hospice Foundation's board, and has been since 2017. His second three-year term on it will finish in 2023. Fines helped the BHF out with previous car raffles in 2014, 2016 and 2017 — and some of those winners are still service customers at the dealership. 

May and her family were given a full tour of their new vehicle by Fines Ford Lincoln staff so they'd know about all the features of the car they'd just won. 

More fundraisers for Bethell Hospice are upcoming, including the Golf 4 Bethell Hospice tournament on September 20 and the Diamond in the Hills fashion show on November 13. 

More information about both can be found online at foundation.bethellhospice.org.