Paddyfest’s Pot o’Gold Lottery
A total of $50,000 in prizes were won this year!
Lottery sales will begin again in November, so stay tuned for your chance to enter.
Paddyfest Charm With a Dash of Listowel Luck
Congratulations to This Year’s Lottery Winners!
Extending our congratulations to the Pot o' Gold Lottery winners from the year’s Paddyfest.
May the Paddyfest luck continue for you!
The Pot o’Gold Lottery Has Consistently Sold Out Since 2016!
Pot o’Gold Lottery Information
All the details so you don’t miss out next year!
All of our draws happen in person at the Listowel Kin Station during an event with results being posted to our social media channels. Be sure to sign up for our Paddyfest newsletter to be informed!
Ticket Sales
The Paddyfest Pot O’Gold lottery ticket sells for $100 each with only 1,000 available. Ticket sales are released in early November with the grand prize draw happening in March at the Meulensteen Tire Homecoming Party.
Early Bird Draw and Main Draw
Two early bird draws consisting of four prizes happen prior to the big draws at the Meulensteen Tire Homecoming Party. One early bird happens in February and one in early March. The Meulensteen Tire Homecoming Party is always on the Saturday afternoon that lands closest to the last weekend of March Break.
Lottery Prizes
The grand prize is either $25,000 cash or $30,000 for a new vehicle at Listowel Car City. There are several prizes packages worth $250 and $2,5000 available to be won each year.
Even if you win one of the smaller prizes, your ticket is re-entered into the grand prize draw, making you eligible for every draw and all the more reason to purchase a lottery ticket!
Don’t Miss Your Chance to Win!
Add your name to our contact list for next year.
Up your chances at a lottery ticket for next year by providing your name through the online form. We will reach out to you when tickets become available for our next Paddyfest Pot o’Gold Lottery! There is no guarantee as it’s first come, first served, but we will reach out with a personal reminder so you don’t miss out.
Supporting Local Causes
This Past Year’s Beneficiaries
The beneficiaries are the foundation that we build all Paddyfest events around. Every year our Lottery Committee selects the beneficiaries for Paddyfest by looking into the projects, who will benefit from the donation, and how the money will be spent.
Let's look at our chosen beneficiaries for this past year's Paddyfest.
North Perth Westfield Playground Improvement
Cystic Fibrosis
United Way
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Community Betterment
Looking Back at Donations Over The Years
Previous Paddyfest Donations
$150,000 to retrofitting the Kin Park
$125,000 Steve Kerr Memorial Complex
$140,000 to Cystic Fibrosis research
$75,000 for the current Olympia
$50,000 for Kin Station Renovations
$25,000 to the Kinsmen Pool
$20,000 to North Perth Schools
$16,000 to the Kinette Splash Pad
$12,500 to the Listowel Memorial Hospital – CT Scanner Project
$12,500 to the United Way Youth Mental Health and Addictions Program
$12,000 to the Daycare
$10,000 to the North Perth Hospice
$10,000 to Sports for Kids fund
Thousands of dollars to other organizations
Looking Back at Our Pot o’Gold History
A “Believe it or not” Moment
When the lottery first came to be, a ticket was $10, and the prize was an ounce of gold. Then, around 1986, the Listowel Kinsmen took on a major project, committing $250,000 to renovate the local arena.
With the need for significantly more money, the decision was made to change the lottery ticket price to $100, with only 1,000 tickets printed. That year the grand prize was a Green Cadillac with personalized “Paddy1” plates.
Tim Haines, the dealership selling the Cadillac at the time, had an inquiry to purchase the green Cadillac leading up to the draw date. Promising they would be able to get another green Cadillac in time for the draw, the Club agreed to the dealership selling the prize to the inquirer under the condition they bought a Pot o’Gold lottery ticket themselves, jokingly of course!
In the end, the ticket that the dealership bought was in fact the exact ticket that won the car! This news was so unbelievable that several newspapers, including the Toronto Sun, called to verify the story before printing it as a “believe it or not” story.