New Orleans native wins $250,000 home in a raffle
New Orleans CityBusiness, Aug 9, 2004 by Staff
New Orleans native Dawn Marie Harvey bought a $100 raffle ticket and walked away with a newly-built $250,000 house.
The grand prize was part of the first St. Jude Dream Home giveaway in New Orleans.
For a cost of $100 per ticket, 7,500 people participated in the contest, raising more than $752,000 for research and treatment at St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. St. Jude's, founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, is one of the world's leading pediatric cancer research centers.
Harvey's new home is in Harvey and was built by Willow Inc., a residential construction firm in Harvey. Other prizes donated by local businesses included a Kawasaki four-wheeler and a diamond necklace.
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
Most Popular Business Publications
Content provided in partnership with
