Friends of Library 100th anniversary raffle rolls along

The year 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Rochester Hills Public Library! It’ll be a year with many special events to celebrate a treasured community resource and one of the biggest is the Friends of the Rochester Hills Public Library 100th Anniversary Raffle!

Over the years, the Friends group has donated well over $1 million to support library needs and Year 100 is an opportunity to raise that tote in a memorable way by designing our raffle to keep interest up throughout the entire year!

Here’s how it works: Tickets are $100 each; you can buy your tickets online at rhpl.org/friends-of-rhpl/. Tell friends and family about this chance to make 2024 especially lucrative.

Why act as early as you can? There are six early bird drawings for $100 from the pot; two have already taken place. Remaining $100 draws are April 23, May 28, June 25 and September 24. Note: Winning tickets from each of those drawings will remain eligible for all subsequent drawings and therefore have the potential to be a multi-drawing winner. Drawings will take place at the beginning of the Friends board meeting at 7 p.m. at 500 Olde Towne Rd. in Rochester.

Want to wait until later in our celebration? You can do that too, right up until the fall.

Then on Oct. 24, there will be a grand prize drawing at the Friends Annual Meeting at 6 p.m. at the Library for 40% of all ticket revenue minus $600 (early bird winnings).

Winners need not be present for any of the drawings.

So, for example, if the Friends sell 1,000 tickets by the Oct. 24 drawing, the final lucky winner could walk away with almost $40,000 (minus withholding taxes) with $60,000 (minus printing expenses) going to the Friends to support the Library. Fewer tickets sold? Smaller prize and less money for the RHPL. But someone will be rewarded for helping us out and you might be the lucky person who laughs all the way to the bank.