Where’s the Beef? At the NFRRS Meat Raffle!
The Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service is excited to invite you to its Second Annual Meat Raffle! Join us on Friday, November 7, 2025 at Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main Street (near Transit Road) in Williamsville, NY 14221. This is our largest fundraiser of the year, so please help us serve those with reading disabilities!
Admission is only $10 presale and for Veterans (documentation required at event), $15 for others at the door, $100 for a table of 12. Admission includes an American flag to wave on Veterans Day, two glasses of beer, unlimited soft drinks, and a chance to win from a HUGE selection of meat and raffle prizes, including Buffalo Bills and Air Fry Oven Grand Prizes (see below)! Play the 50/50 and Follow the Queen raffles for chances to win cash! No outside alcohol permitted, but bring your own snacks, dollar bills, and a cooler to take home your winnings!
How does a Meat Raffle work?
- Each round, different cuts of meat are available to win – 100 meat prizes will be given away!
- A ticket seller will come to your table every round – no need to get up.
- Buy as many tickets as you want to play that round – more tickets mean more chances to win!
- We’ll spin the barrel to pick a winning number – if it’s yours, you win that meat prize for only a few bucks! When we say meat prize, we mean packages of steaks, chicken wings, sausages, turkeys – you name it!
- Keep playing every round to keep winning!
- Available all evening will be Find the Queen (cash prize), 50/50 (cash prize), and gift basket raffles to win even more prizes – buy those tickets separately at the various raffle ticket tables.
We are very appreciative of the many raffle prizes donated to date (67)!
- GRAND PRIZE – Buffalo Bills Tailgate Package: Josh Allen Built For Buffalo book, Buffalo Bills 81-square-foot tailgating canopy, Igloo 60-quart roller cooler ($320 value)
- GRAND PRIZE – Ninja Foodie Digital Air Fry Oven ($250 value): Thank you Volunteer Reader Peggy Chudzik
Special thanks to Andrew’s Estate Service for their donation of a dozen basket raffle prizes:
- Artist’s Dream: wicker basket full of paints, pastels & markers
- Baby Bundle: decorative box full of clothing, blankie & stuffed toys for baby 0-3 months old
- Bath & Beauty Scents: 6 large bottles of scents in wicker basket
- Beauty Basket: hair clips, brushes, scents & fashion bracelets in large basket
- Crown Royal: 750ml bottle in wicker basket
- Happy Easter: yellow box full of pastel-colored, bunny & egg-themed items
- Happy Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving-themed tablecloths, napkins, ceramic turkey, pumpkins, and cookbook
- Lovely Lavender: artificial lavender flowers, cloth tray & 2 framed lavender flower paintings in wicker basket
- Merry Christmas: wicker basket full of Christmas-themed aroma diffuser, scents, mug, and storybooks
- Schnapps Anyone?: liter bottle of Dr. McGillicuddy’s peach schnapps and 2 Buffalo glasses
- Teas and Coffees: also includes honey straws and travel mug in decorative box
- Toyland: large wicker basket of assorted stuffed toys
- Alton’s Restaurants: $25 gift certificate
- Amazon: $50 in gift cards (2) – Thank you NFRRS Volunteer Reader Liz Ortel
- Baker’s Dream: 2 cake mixes, 1 brownie mix, 1 cookie mix, 3 muffin mixes, can of sprinkles, can of frosting, oven mitts, tablecloth, spatula, goodies container &, parchment paper in white basket – Thank you NFRRS Volunteer Reader Karen Bollman
- Barb-B-Q Basket: condiments, sauces, squeeze bottles, meat claws, cook’s apron & cookbook – Thank you NFRRS Volunteer Ron Gilson
- Batavia Downs Gaming: $50 gift certificate for Fortune’s Restaurant & $25 each in Free Play for you and a guest
- Bread & Butter Wine & Glasses Picnic Pack – Thank you NFRRS Board Member Eric McElwain
- Buffalo AKG Art Museum: 2 Museum Day passes
- Buffalo Bills Bundle: mug, towel, blanket scarf, drawstring bag and stuffed dog toy in polka dot box – Thank you Volunteer Ron Gilson
- Buffalo Bills Marv Levy Little People set, Bills sign language t-shirt & beverage bowl – Thank you NFRRS’ Marian Hetherly & Volunteer Reader Linda Rinella
- Buffalo Bills Package: Little People set, travel mug, Josh Allen MVP Puffs & tote bag – Thank you NFRRS Volunteer Reader Linda Rinella
- Buffalo Bills Sneaker: autographed by retired Buffalo Bills center Mitch Morse – Thank you Mary Lambert
- Buffalo Brew Pub – $25 gift card
- Buffalo Iron Works – $25 gift card
- Buffalo Sabres: Autographed Rasmus Dahlin photo from NFRRS Volunteer Reader
- Burchfield Penney Art Center: 2 general admission passes
- Curl Up With a Good Book: candles, bath soak, flowered purse, drink bottle, bookmarks & Little Edgar Allen Poe book in a wicker basket – Thank You WNYIL’s Madeline Usiak
- Daiquiris & Margaritas Anyone?: daiquiri & margarita mixes, cocktail shaker, lemon/lime squeezer, 2 t-shirts & Kettle One fan – Thank you WNYIL’s Christine Hulton
- Dave & Buster’s Power Cards: 4 with 358 game chips each ($220 value
- Diamond Hawk Golf Course & Pub: $50 gift card
- Drinks Anyone?: Strawberry daiquiri & margarita mixes, lemon/lime squeezer, cocktail shaker, 2 t-shirts, Kettle One fan – Thank you WNYIL’s Christine Hulton
- Electric City: 2 tickets to Willy Wonka Taste-A-Long Experience November 23, 2025
- Electric City: 2 tickets to Zoso the Ultimate Led Zepplin Experience November 29, 2025
- Electric City: 2 tickets to The Infamous Stringdusters January 27, 2026
- Electric City: 2 tickets to Margo Price – Wild at Heart Tour February 24, 2026
- Emma Docenko Creations: 2 originally-crafted collector Barbie Dolls (bride & evening gown)
- Explore & More Children’s Museum: $25 gift card
- Flowered Votive Candle Jars (3) & candles gift package – Thank you Mike Benzin
- Game Day: Labatt bucket, Coors hat & glass, Magruders cozy & $20 gift card – Thank you Magruder’s Pub & Banquet
- Grand Island Fun Center Basket O’ Fun: 5 tickets for a go kart, mini golf, batting cage, or laser tag session; $4 in coupons; dozens of arcade tickets ($100 value)
- GourmetGiftBaskets.com: $25 gift certificate
- Handmade Jewelry: 2 bracelets, Precious Moments ornament & pink flower wall art in wicker basket – Thank You Nancy Beakman
- Healthy Eats: $20 grocery gift cards, kitchen towels, oven mitts, vegetable slicer in large wicker basket – Thank you Golden Parachute Catering
- Hodge Wine & Liquor Basket: 2 bottles of wine, 2 cordial glasses, Hodge t-shirt, 3 cozies, bottle opener, cocktail shaker, stirrer, mini bottles of Tito’s vodka & Bulleit brandy in wicker basket – Thank you Volunteer Reader Janice Hunt
- Irish Classical Theatre Company: gift certificate for 2 tickets: valid through June 2026 ($90 value)
- Jack Rabbit: $50 in gift cards (2)
- Kohl’s: $50 gift card – Thank you NFRRS Volunteer Reader Teri Muth
- Lottery Tree: a dozen chances to win thousands – Thank you WNYIL’s Alanna Pohl
- Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum: 2 admission passes
- Moscow Mule Kit: Tito’s vodka, Goslings ginger beer, 2 copper mugs & shot glass in wooden treasure chest – Thank you NFRRS Board Member Eric McElwain
- Mulberry Italian Ristorante: $25 gift certificate
- Night of Romance: 3 romance novels, teas, bookmark, purse, inspirational cubes & mystery Amazon gift card in wicker basket – Thank you WNYIL’s Madeline Usiak
- One Pie Pizza Company: $25 gift card
- Pretty in Pink Basket: flowered women’s watch, diamond pen, stuffed romance novel, nail polish, emery boards & scarf necklace – Thank you NFRRS’ Marian Hetherly
- Riviera Theatre: gift certificate for 2 tickets to Friday Night Tribute Series performance ($40 value)
- Saint Neri Cocktail Bar: $100 gift card
- Scented Candles (2 large) in flowered bag – Thank you Volunteer Reader Claudia Jacumski
- Texas Roadhouse: $50 gift card – Thank you Mike Benzin
- Theatre of Youth Family Pack: gift certificate for 4 tickets to any Mainstage Production ($120 value)
- Tops Markets: $50 gift card – Thank you NFRRS Reader Teri Muth
- Tully’s: $40 gift card – Thank you NFRRS Volunteer Reader Teri Mutch
- Wegmans: $100 gift card – Thank you NFRRS Board Member Eric McElwain
- Wegmans: $50 gift card – Thank you NFRRS Volunteer Reader Liz Ortel
- Winter Comfort: 2 mugs, coffees, teas, cookies, honey, muffin & biscuit mixes, coupon for 1 dozen Donut Craze donuts – Thank you WNYIL’s Tracy LeBlanc
All proceeds will support Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service, a 24/7 nonprofit radio station whose team of volunteers read nearly 80 national and local newspapers, magazines, and best-selling books for our neighbors across the Western New York-Rochester-Southern Ontario region who are blind or living with another vision, mobility, or learning disability that makes reading a challenge, such as macular degeneration, Parkinson’s disease, paralysis, brain or spinal injury, muscular dystrophy, dyslexia, or autism. We do this to help ensure everyone has equal access to the news and knowledge they need to live and thrive as informed, engaged, and independent members of their community.
Thank you for supporting the Radio Reading mission!