{"id":3250,"date":"2006-08-01T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2017-12-14T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T22:25:33","slug":"post-dispatch-cant-hang-it-on-sengheiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/post-dispatch-cant-hang-it-on-sengheiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Dispatch Can’t Hang It On Sengheiser"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned previously<\/a>, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> earlier this year had a mad-on for the local charity Gateway for a Cure, run by Lou Sengheiser (sample article here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Now, another charity that wanted to raffle off a house has run into trouble<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A new $175,000 home or $125,000 and 40 smaller prizes guaranteed to make the $100 ticket at least pay for itself would have seemed a temptation for even a non-gambler.<\/p>\n

But the Waterloo Sports Association’s idea of making someone lucky person’s dream come true while raising substantial funds for its youth sports programs fizzled.<\/p>\n

The Waterloo City Council approved the WSA’s idea last November and for weeks the house raffle was the talk of the town.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, people were just talking, not buying tickets.<\/p>\n

“We had 3,500 tickets, and we finally gave up when we couldn’t even sell 300,” said Rich Grove, who headed the WSA fundraiser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We at MfBJN are waiting with bated breath to see if the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> goes after the Waterloo whomever as crooks, or if Lou Sengheiser was just lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned previously, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch earlier this year had a mad-on for the local charity Gateway for a Cure, run by Lou Sengheiser (sample article here). Now, another charity that wanted to raffle off a house has run into trouble: A new $175,000 home or $125,000 and 40 smaller prizes guaranteed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18623,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/18623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}