Moosomin Shriners holding Wings & Winners fundraiser October 24
August 25, 2025, 9:49 am
Kara Kinna
After 13 years of hosting large annual fall concert events, the Moosomin Shrine Club have decided to do something different as their annual fundraiser this year, and will be hosting at Wings & Winners fundraiser on Friday, October 24 at the Moosomin Sportsplex.
The fundraiser will consist of 100 tickets sold for $100. For that $100 you will get all you can eat wings that night, plus a shot at winning 12 large prizes.
The prizes range from Pipestone Hills Golf Club package for a golf party to hind quarters of beef, a generator, a smoker, a Winnipeg Jets package and $500 worth of daycare.
The grand prize is a travel package for anywhere WestJet flies plus a $5,000 ground package for a trip valued at between $7,000 and $8,000 depending on where you choose to go.
Proceeds from the fundraiser will be split between Playfair Daycare for their new daycare building in Moosomin, as well as the Shrine Club’s patient travel fund.
There will also be a silent auction, 50/50 draw that night and live entertainment.
For those who just want to come out and enjoy the evening without a shot at the big prizes, $25 tickets will also be on sale. Each $25 ticket gets you all you can eat wings, and the chance to bid on the silent auction or participate in the 50/50 draw, as well as enjoy the live entertainment.
Moosomin Shrine Club member Bill Thorn said last week the club felt it was time to change things up.
“Our club has fewer members and older members, and we are trying to hold something we can handle better,” he says. “Also it’s very expensive to bring entertainment in that appeals to a lot of different people. I think we’ve done 13 of those concerts so we thought it was time to change.
“Half the proceeds are going to the new daycare facility and half are going to our patient travel fund. Plus we have $15,000 worth of prizes that will be shared that night amongst the various winners.
“There will be 100 tickets sold of $100 each, and it’s an elimination. We pull the numbers off a board and every number will have a name on the back side of it, and as your number is pulled out of the drum, your name comes off. There’s winners for the first person, the 99th person, and the 100th person gets the big prize, but every 10th one in between gets a prize as well. So there are going to be 12 feature prizes.
“We have really good support from the local businesses.
“As your number comes out there is a wheel we will spin and it will land on one of the prizes, and that is the prize you will get.
“We are also going to have a silent auction and a 50/50 as well.
“If people just want to come for the evening and the entertainment and so forth and take a chance on the silent auction, $25 gets you in the door and you can have all you can eat wings for $25 plus take part in the entertainment, but you don’t get a chance at the big prizes.
“We think the 100 tickets are going to sell fairly quickly. And we would like to end up with 150 to 200 people in the building.”
Thorn notes that people might win a prize they are not interested in, and in that case they will find a way to ensure that prize goes to someone who does wants it, whether it is live auctioned, or given out in another way. He says that will be part of the entertainment, and the Shrine Club is still ironing out some of the details.
“We think it’s going to be kind of a fun night,” he says “At our other events, we tried to sell 350 tickets. This is 100 tickets plus we are hoping to sell another 50 at least of the $25 tickets and have some good prizes and have some fun.
“Fenton Martens is going to do a little entertaining at the end of the night. It will be more of a social than it will be a concert.”
The event starts at 5 pm and runs until midnight. Thorn says people can contact him on his cell phone at 306-435-9790 for tickets. Seating is limited and he is encouraging people to get their tickets early.
