… While teacher takes home a new pickup

Michael Casey was not the only one to go home a winner. Today Ordel Swift, a teacher at Holy Redeemer primary school, is the proud owner of a new 2007 Isuzu DMax pickup, thanks to Courts. Swift, who was taken completely by surprise during a special presentation this afternoon, says she was attending a training workshop at the school when the participants were suddenly pulled out of class.

[Ordel being handed the keys to her truck]

Ordel Swift, Winner, Court’s DMax Raffle
“It is the end of our workshop and they told us to come over here at the tennis court to take a group picture. So I wasn’t expecting anything, then I saw my colleagues saying, Mrs. Swift, Mrs. Swift. I was like what? I saw it, I saw the Courts personnel, but I wasn’t thinking anything and up to the point that they came and hug me I was still not thinking anything. It was actually after; I was, okay, something is happening here.”

Jacqueline Godwin
“The next question is, do you know how to drive?”

Ordel Swift
“Yes, I do.”

Jacqueline Godwin
“So this coming in very handy?”

Ordel Swift
“Yeah, very handy.”

Swift says she has spent over three thousand dollars at the furniture and appliance store. The vehicle is valued at forty-four thousand dollars.