What's cooking with the PNE Prize Home? Try an extra kitchen
Credit to Author: Susan Lazaruk| Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 14:00:13 +0000
The 2019 edition of the PNE Prize Home, the fair’s 85th house lottery, has something that none of the other 84 homes had: A second kitchen behind the show kitchen.
“Everybody likes to party in the kitchen,” so the hosts will need a separate area just for prepping, said the PNE’s Jeffrey Strickland.
The extra kitchen has extra pantry room, its own sink and a second dishwasher.
The 3,159-sq.-ft. three-bedroom “modern farmhouse” is also equipped with a spacious mud room at the back entrance that includes a small shower for cleaning outerwear or muddy pets.
The actual house on display at the PNE fairgrounds will be dissembled and relocated to a housing development called Kirschner Mountain, about a 15-minute drive from downtown Kelowna, and has views of Lake Okanagan and the valley.
The grand prize package with other goodies, including Yaletown Interiors furnishings, Kitchen Aid and Whirlpool appliances, plus gazebo and outdoor hot tub is worth about $2 million.
One of two kitchens in the 2019 PNE Prize Home.
Lisa Jung of Vancouver waited for more than 30 minutes on Tuesday to tour the house on the PNE fairgrounds after having bought her 15 tickets online.
She’s been buying tickets for about a decade and wasn’t employing positive thinking in the lineup.
“No, I don’t think I’ll win, but the proceeds go to charity,” she said. “But if you don’t try, you can’t win. I’ll be happy for whoever wins.”
Linh Diep is back at the PNE for a second year selling tickets for this year’s Prize Home. ‘It’s really fun because you’re facing a lot of different people,’ she says. ‘I think I’ve become a better speaker.’
Ticket seller Linh Diep is back for a second year hawking the tickets, reminding potential buyers that if they win one of the several early bird draws, the winning ticket goes back into the drum for the final draw and they could win up to 15 times with 15 tickets.
The East Vancouver 21-year-old enjoys the two-week job and will use the earrings to help pay for her fourth-year kinesiology courses at Simon Fraser University.
“It’s really fun because you’re facing a lot of different people,” she said. “I think I’ve become a better speaker.”
Fancy a cuppa? The tearoom in the 2019 PNE Prize Home.
The prize home lottery has been an important fundraiser and popular attraction of the PNE’s for decades, said spokeswoman Laura Ballance.
She said it earns the fair between $2 million and $2.5 million every year, money that is used to fund other programs, such as the 4H club activities.
“It’s an important part of the fair being able to do what we do,” she said.
They print 798,000 tickets but they’ve never sold out, said gaming manager Cynthia Kwon.
The master bedroom in the 2019 PNE Prize Home, a 3,159-sq.-ft. three-bedroom ‘modern farmhouse.’
Now here’s some room! The master closet in the 2019 PNE Prize Home.
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