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Colorado woman wins $1.2 million house in $50 raffle

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 01/24/09

A Colorado woman got a great deal on an Edgewater home yesterday; she bought the 4,400-square-foot house on Poplar Point Road for only $50.

Paul W. Gillespie - The Capital
Tom Walters, right, holds one of the five raffle numbers that helped a Colorado woman win a house in Edgewater. Michael McFarland, 8, pulled the balls from the hopper to give Karen McHale the winning ticket.
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Karen McHale, of Idaho Springs, Colo., won the FiftyDollarHouse raffle yesterday, held at Westfield Annapolis mall. She will receive the house - which appraised for about $1.25 million in December - free of mortgage or liens and will not be required to pay any closing costs.

"I can't believe it," said Mrs. McHale, a chemical engineer, volunteer firefighter and mother of two. "I never win anything."

Michael McFarland, an 8-year-old boy from Annapolis, drew Mrs....

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