PHOTO: ABC raffle winner

The second annual Rhinelander Athletic Booster Club/Shoeder’s RV and Marine raffle concluded Friday, Feb. 9 as the grand prize winner was drawn during halftime of the Rhinelander High School boys’ basketball game against Lakeland at the Jim Miazga Community Gymnasium.

Kelsey Kuczmarski was the lucky winner who had her ticket drawn from roughly 2,100 entries and took home the grand prize of a 2024 Viaggio Lago pontoon boat with a 60 HP Suzuki Motor, and an MSRP of more than $25,000, courtesy of Shoeder’s. Twenty-dollar tickets were sold throughout the fall and winter by Rhinelander area high school, middle school and youth sports teams, with teams keeping 100% of the proceeds from the tickets they sold. 

During the presentation, the ABC board member Jeremy McCone announced that more than $42,000 was raised from this year’s raffle, and that more than $80,000 has been raised in the two years of the program. 

“On behalf of the Athletic Booster Club, we’d like to give big thanks to Scott and Ali for their continued support toward our second annual raffle,” McCone said. “All teams have the opportunity to sell the tickets and 100% of all the funds raise go directly back to those teams that sold the tickets.”