Legion draw clarified

Staff

The local Legion won’t be holding a 50/50 draw for the month of January due to a changeover in its executive.
The Legion currently has a licence to run 50/50 draws for November through April.
But Legion Br. #29 president Noris Piccinato explained that since the current executive is changing in January, the current executive, including himself, did not want their names on a lottery licence, which would be in effect under the new executive, because of any possible liability.
Instead, the current executive decided the new one should get a new licence under their own names.
Since the new executive won’t be able to apply for a new licence until Jan. 2 at the earliest, and then subsequently have tickets printed, it’s not possible to have 50/50 draw for that month.
But Piccinato said the Legion should be able to have the 50/50 draw in February.
He added that, to his best recollection, this type of situation only has happened once before.
That was when the Legion was raffling off a Polaris ATV, and could not get a licence to do that and get one to do a 50/50 draw at the same time.