Women’s Resource Center of Northern Michigan is raffling a one-of-a-kind paddle board and paddle designed and crafted by Jason Thelen of Little Bay Boards to support life-saving, life-changing services offered to women, children and families across northern Lower Michigan.

The board is handcrafted from knotty white cedar featuring a custom painting by local artist Mary Bea McWatters. The design on the board combines symbols intended to pave the way forward toward a beautiful life. The hollow-core, eco-friendly board is ten feet and one half-inch tall, weighs 27 pounds and is valued at $4,000.

WRCNM will offer 150 raffle tickets at $100 per ticket up until the raffle drawing which will be held during the grand opening of Little Bay Boards Showroom in Petoskey, at 4:00 p.m., Friday, May 19, 2023.

Raffle tickets are available for purchase in Petoskey through WRCNM’s main office, 423 Porter Street; Gold Mine Resale Shop, 1002 Emmet Street; Gold Mine North Resale Shop, 1878 US-31 North; Little Bay Boards Showroom, 355 North Division Road; and WRCNM Board Members.

Due to raffle license rules, tickets are not available online. If 50 tickets are not sold, the drawing reverts to a 50/50 raffle with the minimum prize of $1,000 awarded.

For more information or to purchase tickets by phone, call WRCNM’s main office at (231) 347-0067.

The paddle board raffle drawing will be held during the Little Bay Boards Showroom grand opening and ribbon cutting on May 19, starting at 3pm, with ribbon cutting at 3:30pm and paddle board raffle drawing at 4pm. During the open house, 19% of all sales at Little Bay Boards will support building 43 affordable homes in Emmet and Charlevoix counties by 2025.