The Newtown Blue & Gold Booster Club will be holding a raffle on Thursday, June 29, at 12 noon at the Washington Mutual Financial Center and one lucky winner will be winning a trip of a lifetime.

The winner will have his or her choice of going to the Indianapolis 500, the NFL Pro Bowl in Hawaii, a BCS Bowl game, the Kentucky Derby, Daytona 500, Major League Baseball All Star Game, the NHL Stanley Cup, NBA All Star Game, NHL All Star Game, Ryder Cup, NBA Finals, U.S. Open Tennis, U.S Open golf tournament, the World Series, Florida Keys, St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands, Disney World, the Super Bowl or the NCAA Final Four.

Or choose own dream vacation destination (this option must be agreed upon with provider of gift certificate and is not limited to two people).

Tickets are $10 and the trips are valued at $6,500 and generally include eight days, seven nights (although Super Bowl and Final Four are five days, four nights) for two with two round-trip airline tickets, hotel accommodations, breakfast each morning, two reserved seat tickets to the event, car rental, tax & gratuities.

The raffle is a major fundraiser for the booster club, which hopes to raise the necessary money to provide needed improvements (i.e, a turf field, new restroom facilities, new seating and equipment storage space) to Blue & Gold Stadium at Newtown High School. The stadium field sees limited play due to concerns about overuse, but the booster club seeks a situation where the field can be utilized as much as possible.

“The booster club supports the high school athletic department and its reasoning for dramatically reduced utilization,” said B&G president Dan Barrett, “however, the club also sees the need for the school and the town to make the maximum use of every playing field available.”

Raffle tickets are available at Newtown Savings Bank (Main Street main office and Sand Hill Plaza branch), Village Barber, Sandy Hook Wine & Liquor, Newtown Deli, Stop & Save Wine & Liquor, Washington Mutual, The Drug Center, My Place Restaurant, Hot Shots Grille, Dr Gellert’s office, Hawleyville Deli, Newtown Florist, Bagel Delite, Andrea’s Bakery, Yankee Liquor, VFW, Coaches Deli, Franco’s Pizza, Berkshire Motors.

Learn more about the project at nhsblueandgold.com or contact Dan Barrett at 270-1927.