Families win big with Boys & Girls Club contest

Four local families recently won a total of $17,000 in the first early bird drawing for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme's House of Ten Thousand Dreams Home Raffle.

Tai Kim of Oxnard was the top winner, taking home $10,000 just before Christmas to his wife and two small children, who he says will be future club members.

Tifney Bertram of Ventura won $5,000, and Oxnard residents Rebecca Branscome and Richard McDonald each won $1,000. Three other California residents were also winners of $1,000 each.

Another early bird drawing will take place on Thurs., Jan. 31, and the final drawing is Mon., March 31.

The grand prize is the House Of Ten Thousand Dreams, a new water-view home in the Seabridge community at Channel Islands Harbor, or $1 million cash. Second prize is a 2007 HarleyDavidson Fat Boy motorcycle.

For information or tickets, call (866) 720-2582 or visit www.tenthousanddreams.net.

For more information on the Boys & Girls Clubs, visit www.positiveplace4kids.org or call (805) 815-4959, ext. 203.