There is a new CKUA raffle on, likely to be our biggest one yet! You can buy your tickets here. More about that later, but first, we want to properly introduce you to Zlatko, who won our June 50/50 raffle.
Zlatko P. had won a lot of money. He just wasn’t ready to believe it yet.
“I didn’t think it could be true, not at all,” says the Calgarian. The CKUA phone calls weren’t coming through and he received two emails before he decided something might be up. It was a phone call from Adam Mitchell, CKUA’s Chief Operating Officer that finally did it.
“I said, ‘Oh my gosh, this is real,’” Zlatko says. It felt strange, he adds. “I was never expecting anything. I never won anything in my life.”
He called his wife and they were both speechless. They plan to be very careful and judicious with the sum they received.
It’s too easy for money to just vanish if you start spending it, he says.
“We’re not doing anything exciting,” he says. “We are not going to buy a car, we are not going to be flying anywhere, we are going to do what we usually do.”
He’s glad to have more security and to be able to better help support his parents in Bosnia.
Zlatko and his wife came to Canada in 1995, after enduring three years of the Bosnian War. In 1996 their daughter was born.
It hasn’t always been easy, he says. They came with very little money and arrived in the middle of a Canadian winter. Their daughter had some serious medical concerns. “Everything is hitting you, hitting you,” Zlatko says, “and you are just working, working, working.”
“And then some nice things happen and somebody calls you and you get 157,000 bucks and you drop down and you’re speechless, you don’t know what to say.”
He bought the raffle tickets because CKUA enriches his life, he says.
“For example, I go to the gym at 5am every morning and I listen to Bob Chelmick. It is so calming, it’s something spiritual, almost like you met the Dalai Lama,” he says. “It makes it feel like a good day, like something good is going to happen.”
He encourages everyone to buy a CKUA 50/50 raffle ticket.
“CKUA gives the opportunity to people to express themselves through their music, poetry, whatever it is. Supporting CKUA is like giving back to the community.”
“I think most people can spare 20 bucks, 50 bucks, 100 bucks,” for tickets, he says. “To me, you’re not giving to radio, you’re giving to the community where you live, through the radio.”
As mentioned, we have a raffle currently running! It’s an exciting collaboration with KDays in Edmonton. You can read all about it here.
Zlatko’s song selection as a pick-me-up if things are feeling heavy: “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” by Neil Young:
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