Kelowna family wins $1.75 million Lake Life dream home

Anokha Babu and her family "struck out" on finding a home within their budget multiple times in Kelowna, but the family of four will finally move out of their apartment thanks to the Lake Life Lottery.

The Babus were found out they were denied an offer on a home just one day before the Dec. 15 grand prize draw.

“This is an incredible blessing for our entire family,” Babu said in a Lake Life Lottery news release.

They'll move into the $1.75 million Lake Country home, which hosts four bedrooms and four bathrooms.

“We’ve struck out finding a house within our budget so many times over the last year that my son has been praying for a place to call our own every night," Babu said, who will soon move out from a two-bedroom apartment with her husband and two young children.

“We would also like to thank residents from every corner of our province who purchased tickets to Lake Life Lottery,” Allison Ramchuk, CEO of Kelowna General Hospital Foundation, said in the news release. “We are moved by your support for this valuable cause.”

The Lake Life Lottery was organized to benefit both the hospital foundation and the YMCA of Southern Interior B.C.

Babu doesn't usually purchase lottery tickets, but she wanted to support the lottery cause in this case, according to the news release.

“We want to congratulate Anokha and her family, and all of the other prize winners, who have enjoyed life-changing wins over the course of our 2022 lottery,” president and CEO of the Southern Interior YMCA, Allyson Graf, said.

The home is the grand prize, but the lottery also included a luxury speedboat, Mustang convertible, and holidays to New York, Hawaii and Europe.

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