Seeley Lake Girls Win Country Cottage

SEELEY LAKE – Three-year-old Mason Welch and her two-year-old sister Hayden are the proud owners of their first house. The country cottage playhouse, built by Doug Richards and raffled off by Seeley Lake Elementary School (SLE), found its home on Riverview Drive in Seeley Lake after Mason's ticket was drawn by SLE seventh-grader Emily Howard at the Tamarack Festival.

Mason's grandmother Renita Ruth is the manager at Cory's Valley Market. She bought five tickets when tickets went on sale and then bought five more, one with Mason's name on it, before the drawing two weeks ago.

"Being it sat at t...