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From: Keith Latta <>
Subject: ... little house on the prairie
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:36:56 -0700


...just testing whether LATTA-L is still alive and well - it's a slow day, folks ...

(This article was published in a local paper recently. The name Govan, Sask., caught my attention as branch 13 Lattas virtually founded the prairie town and lived there for generations. The most notable was Samuel Latta, my father's cousin, who was Minister of Education in Saskatchewan for over 20 years. It's likely that this little house on the prairie was once owned by a Latta.)

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>Free concert tickets, hats and compact discs are standard fare in radio
>station giveaways, but a Victoria station went one better Friday by
>awarding a three-bedroom, two-storey house. But, since the offer came from
>a popular rock station known for its crazy contests and gimmicks, you knew
>there had to be a catch.
>
>Although Victoria is one of Canada's most expensive real estate markets,
>where an average house costs close to $400,000, the prize house was a ramshackle, prewar model in Govan, Sask., population 276--a 19-hour drive from B. C.'s capital.
>
>"I've just been laughing all day at the whole situation," said the winner,
>Melanie Alexander of Victoria. "From the very beginning, I thought the
>house would be in Victoria, but everybody kept saying, 'There's no way
>somebody would give away a $250,000 house.'"
>
>For five weeks, the station promoted its "free house" contest but failed
>to mention it was a little house on the prairie--a $5,000 farmhouse in
>Govan, 104 kilometres northwest of Regina.
>
>"We have no budget," said Rick Everett, program director at 100.3 The Q.
>"Five grand doesn't buy anything here in Victoria, so we had to go a bit
>farther out. So we ended up finding a lovely place in Govan... The five
>finalists took it great."
>
>Rather than take the house, Alexander opted for a $9,000 cash payment.
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Keith Latta
Victoria, BC
Branch 13

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