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Drouin came home to his house on fire in late July. The house will be torn down. (Daniel Drouin\/Facebook)<\/p>\nA western P.E.I. man who lost his home in a fire earlier this summer has miraculously won a raffle for a new cottage.<\/p>\n
Alberton’s Daniel Drouin\u00a0recognizes the wild stroke of luck,\u00a0one that couldn’t have come at a better time.<\/p>\n
“It’s life-changing really,” he said Saturday. “It’s just such a weird coincidence that \u2026 I get picked out of that many people.<\/p>\n
“And then all the circumstances that’s happened with me and my family in the last month, and then you go and win the house. You know, it’s, what are the odds?”<\/p>\n
There were about 14,000 tickets sold for the draw. The grand prize winner could choose between the pre-fabricated cottage and $150,000.<\/p>\n
Drouin came home to his house on fire in late July. The house will be torn down. (Daniel Drouin\/Facebook)<\/p>\n
Drouin is a musician and had to perform on Friday night. The phone rang as he was settling in for an afternoon nap.<\/p>\n
He had purchased a $50 raffle ticket for the Big Brothers, Big Sisters draw before the house fire. He said he was reluctant at first, but his girlfriend encouraged him.<\/p>\n
A video posted by Big Brothers Big Sisters captures the moment Myron Yates, executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Prince Edward Island, called Drouin to let him know he won.<\/p>\n
Drouin at one point asked if this was a practical joke. “It’s not, seriously,” said Yates. “We wouldn’t do that to you.”<\/p>\n
Drouin\u00a0said he was in shock.<\/p>\n
“I thought it might have been a prank call\u2026 but it wasn’t. After he gave me all the details, he called me back just to make sure I understood it was not a prank,” he said.<\/p>\n
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These pictures, which were posted on the Big Brothers Big Sisters Facebook page, shows the inside of the cottage. (Big Brothers, Big Sisters\/Facebook)<\/p>\n
The cottage doesn’t come with a piece of property. Drouin isn’t sure yet where he’ll put it.<\/p>\n
He said he’s been living apart from his two children. He’s been living with friends. One of his children is with a friend\u00a0and one with grandparents. He said the cottage gives the family a chance to reunite.<\/p>\n
It was around 2 a.m. on a dark July night\u00a0when\u00a0Drouin\u00a0learned his house was on fire. It was his son who called to give the news.<\/p>\n
“[He] called the fire department and woke everybody up and got everybody out of the house,” Drouin said.<\/p>\n
He said his house will have to be torn down.<\/p>\n
He said he plans to go to Charlottetown on Monday to check out his new cottage\u00a0and take care of some paperwork.<\/p>\n
“It means a fresh start really, I mean, yeah, and a fresh start for the kids, too, and everybody will be back together,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A western P.E.I. man who lost his home in a fire earlier this summer has miraculously won a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":205836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-205835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115159212142168495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}