REGINA – The Hospitals of Regina Foundation is offering something new for their Spring Home Lottery: a grand prize show home in Emerald Park for the first time.
The show home is located on 1 Huber Bay in Emerald Park and is valued at $1.8 million, the highest ever for the Home Lottery. The winner of the show home also gets $50,000.
Hospitals of Regina Foundation CEO Dino Sophocleous Is excited about the show home location in Emerald Park, after several years of offering grand prize show homes in The Creeks area of Regina. The reason they are not offering the showhome in The Creeks this time, he said, was because they ran out of space there.
“We simply ran out. So we had to find another spot,” Sophocleous said. “Emerald Park is a fantastic location.
And we especially like the location of this house. It’s right across from the golf course. So if you happen to win it and you like golf, yeah, you know, this is pretty much perfect.”
He said the reaction from the Emerald Park community to having the showhome built there has been enthusiastic.
“You know what? We had a bit of an open house for our members on the last Friday, and the comments were fantastic.
And we also had a few people who live in the neighborhood who came back in. One of them said, it’s about time you came to Emerald Park. I’m pretty sure I’ll find someone from North Regina who’ll say, wow, why did you go to Emerald Park? But at the end of the day, we go where we think there’s value and where we can find actually lots that can accommodate the size and the design of the house that we want to put in the market for our purchases.”
The neighbourhood in Emerald Park has a similar feel to the Creeks, albeit a little less crowded. “It’s certainly less crowded. I think the fact that there’s a golf course across guarantees pretty much that nobody will ever build across from you… and you’ll notice that the windows are all panoramic. I think that adds a lot to that feel of the view.”
Overall, there are about $3 million worth of prizes being offered in the Spring Lottery. Other prizes being offered are the BMW and Bahamas Early Bird Prize, or $100,000 in cash, with a deadline of midnight April 17; the Lexus Luxury Bonus of a 2026 Lexus RX 350, or $75,000, with a deadline of midnight Friday, March. 20, 2026; and the Experience Italy VIP Prize with a trip to Milan, Lake Como, and Verona, or take $20,000, with a deadline of midnight Feb. 27.
The final deadline for the grand prize showhome is midnight May 1. That is also the deadline for the Membership Loyalty Prize of $10,000.
The 50/50 Add-On is back as well, which exceeded $1 million in their last lottery, as is the weekday winning add-on, which offers $5,000 every weekday in June.
While those are the deadlines, Sophocleous said the best time to buy a ticket is right now.
If “one wants to be in for everything, now’s the time,” Sophocleous said at the lottery launch event Wednesday morning. “And we are 30% sold already… which, by the way, is a great start to this lottery. So we’re very pleased with that.”
The proceeds from the lottery will help the Foundation deliver on its 2026 commitments, Sophocleous said, which totals $5.6 million.
Those include investing $1.8 million to support maternal and pediatric programs, including $750,000 for the NICU at Regina General Hospital and also an additional $500,000 for the labour and birth unit.
There are also investments in surgical programs including a $230,000 high-tech surgical platform for complex eye surgeries at Pasqua Hospital; $735,000 in the Dilawri Simulation Centre, which supports training for clinicians and medical students; $300,000 in an inpatient adult mental health unit at the Regina General Hospital to enhance the comfort and safety of patients and staff, replace furniture, and upgrade the space; $500,000 will be invested in the cardiac program including $250,000 for the electrophysiology lab; $200,000 in helping the province train and retain specialists in Regina; and almost $350,000 in new surgical systems to make brain surgery less invasive and more effective.
Kerri Hysuick, Executive Director of Tertiary and Surgical Services, Integrated Regina Health for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, spoke at length about that new technology to “make our brain surgery safer and more effective.”
The devices include BrainPath, which “allows surgeons to perform minimally invasive neurosurgical technique that accesses complex tumours or other conditions located in the deep brain structures by navigating through the brain’s naturally occurring grooves rather than cutting through functional brain tissue. This method reduces trauma, protecting areas of the brain responsible for critical tasks like speech, movement, sensation, and vision during surgery.”
The second piece of technology is the NICO Myriad Handpiece. “It is used in conjunction with BrainPath, which is used to move tissue out of the way, and the NICO Myriad Handpiece is used for safe, automated brain tumor and blood clot removal… Both technologies together will help our neurosurgeons develop the best care possible to our Southern Saskatchewan community.”
Sophocleous said the needs in the hospitals “never goes away. Technology has changed.:Delivery of healthcare has certainly changed.,,, I’m sure Kerry will agree with me. So what it really means for us is one more way to allow this community to help with that, to show their support, to come on board and take a bit of ownership of how healthcare is developed, how it’s delivered, and how current we stay. We take great pride in providing to the best of our ability the technology that our medical teams need.”
When asked what motivated people to buy tickets for the Hospitals of Regina Foundation lotteries, Sophocleous believes most view it as a way to give back to the community.
“I think the great majority of the purchasers of the lottery view this as their way of supporting the foundation and our healthcare teams and our hospitals. I think they view the fact that they could win as a bonus. And we’re okay with that.”
