Five days and nights for two at an exclusive lodge in northern B.C. is the prize package in a lottery for the Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation.

Duncanby Fishing Lodge donated the prize package worth $8,400 to Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation for their first ever lottery.

The prize includes airfare to the lodge in River's Inlet in northern B.C., accommodation, and gourmet meals. (For more information on the lodge, go to www.duncanbylodgemarina.com.)

There are 2,000 tickets available and they cost $10 apiece or three for $25.

Tickets are sold at the Billy Miner Pub, The Outpost liquor store, the Witch of Endor liquor store, and at the beer and wine store at The Office.

With the purchase of a ticket, people will get a 10-per-cent discount card valid at the location until the end of March where the ticket was bought.

The draw will be held March 1 at 6 p.m. at the Billy Miner Pub and Ale House.

The Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation is working to provide more than $800,000 this year for health care needs.

Included on their list is a bus for Baillie House residents, three cardiac monitors, patient lifts, and two highly specialized microscopes used for urology and orthopaedic surgeries.