50/50 Ticket sales start June 25 and run until July 4 at 7pm when the parade starts.
To purchase 50/50 tickets look around Bessemer for 50/50 ticket sellers in the red shirts or stop by the tent in Bessemer VFW Lot on US2. Tickets are sold for $1 and the prize is split with 50% going to a winner and the other 50% supporting the Bessemer 4th of July.
Selling Dates:
- June 25 – July 4 7:00PM
Drawing Held:
- 7:15PM July 4
Winning Numbers Will Be Announced in the Following Places:
- Last Float in the Parade
- On the website bessemer4th.com by the following day
- Bessemer 4th of July Facebook
- Bessemer 4th of July Mobile App
- Ironwood Daily Globe & Wakefield News/Bessemer Pick & Axe
- Local Business Billboards
To Claim Prize:
- Call Mark at 906-364-0420 or the Gogebic County Federal Credit Union at 906-663-4011
- Prize must be claimed within 60 days
- The earliest time money can be awarded is Wednesday, July 5. No exceptions
- Winning name will be released as soon as possible after the winning check is awarded
Past 50/50 Winning Prizes
Over the past 30 years of the 50/50 raffle $504,028 has been awarded! That is an average prize of $16,800.
- 2021 – $42,371
- 2021 – $44,254
- 2020 – N/A
- 2019 – $36,996
- 2018 -$34,681
- 2017 – $34,861
- 2016 – $33,490
- 2015 – $30,494
- 2014 – $28,338
- 2013 – $25,424
- 2012 – $23,253
- 2011 – $25,987
- 2010 – $22,542
- 2009 – $18,345
- 2008 – $15,460 (Unclaimed and donated to St. Vincent DePaul, Bessemer Booster Club, Washington PTO, Gogebic County 4-H)
- 2007 – $14,636
- 2006 – $14,685
- 2005 – $13,190
- 2004 – $11,105
- 2003 – $12,713
- 2002 – $12,283
- 2001 – $12,120
- 2000 – $12,013
- 1999 – $9,870
- 1998 – $10,133
- 1997 – $10,433
- 1996 – $8,964
- 1995 – $7,841
- 1994 – $7,621
- 1993 – $5,527
- 1992 – $4,505
- 1991 – $3,804
- 1990 – $2,714