Scott Resident Wins Dormont VFD Car Raffle

Another raffle season has come to an end and three lucky winners took home prizes courtesy of Dormont Volunteer Fire Department.

The grand-prize winner of the 2013 Dormont VFD car raffle is Rich Porchiran of Scott Township. As the grand-prize winner, Porchiran had the choice of taking either the car, or the $18,000 cash equivalent.

Porchiran was not available for comment at the time of this publication, but Dormont VFD Chief Jeff Arnold said Porchiran chose the cash equivalent.

This year’s car was a 2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe. VFD member Dan Stocker sold the winning ticket.

The second place winner is Thad Weitershausen of Corsica, Pa. Weitershausen won $2,000, and third-place winner Paul Marsili of Beechview won $1,000. VFD member Rick LaGamba sold both the second and third-place winning tickets.

Arnold said VFD members plan to meet Wednesday, July 10 to finalize the numbers from the department’s largest annual fundraiser.

“It was better than last year,” Arnold said. “There are no final numbers on it yet, but we’re meeting Wednesday to finalize all that. It definitely turned out to be better this year than last year. Our residential returns for ticket sales were a lot higher this year, which is a really good thing.”