The Cat Country 98 days of Summer and Storage Wars Promotion ran for three months during summer and a bit into the fall.
The Storage Wars promotion involved local businesses donating prizes to go inside a storage locker at Westside Storage for one lucky listener to win. The businesses sponsoring the event were Sunset Bay Hot Tubs/Arctic Spas in Regina, Grassroots Co-op in Limerick, Prairie Mechanical Services in Gravelbourg, Prairie Gun Services in Avonlea, Integra Tire/Karst Holdings in Assiniboia, X-Treme Fitness in Assiniboia, Wood River Controls in Lafleche, B&A Petroleum in Assiniboia, Great West Auto Electric/Bumper to Bumper in Assiniboia and Westrum Lumber Timbermart in Assiniboia.
In order to get a key, listeners had to spin to win. The wheel had to land on the “entered for a key” slot and from there, the contestants were randomly picked by Cat Country.
Contests were also made on Facebook to win a key with listeners entering either their favourite photo of their pet or landmark.
The evening of the giveaway began on Sept. 25 at 6:00 p.m. outside of the Prince of Wales Cultural and Recreation Centre. Key winners were separated strictly by vocal reminders. Chalk marks on the ground indicated where contestants had to stand to stay within COVID-19 regulations and to ensure everyone's safety.
Masks and hand sanitizer were given out to everyone – contestants were also asked the mandatory list of COVID-19 symptoms.
Winners registered at the main table then they picked a random key number out of a bucket.
After a final head count on people who had registered, the same amounts of keys were counted in public then placed into a bucket minus the winning key.
The winning key was dropped into the bucket by the station owner, Steve Huber. Next, random numbers were called out from 1-81.
There were 81 keys, meaning 81 numbers would be called out until the winner came up to the table with the right key to open the padlock.
When the numbers were called, contestants arrived at the main table, sanitized, picked a key then fitted it into the padlock. If their key opened the padlock, they'd won.
Lloyd Spearchief, who was number 77, had the winning key. Spearchief was present at this event on behalf of Aileen Pilsner of Assiniboia, because her husband had surgery on the same day, making him the grand prize winner of the Storage Wars by proxy.
When Lloyd arrived at Westside Storage with the Cat Country Team, the locker containing the prizes was unlocked.
Pilsner was shown her prizes in real time through Facebook live and on Facetime – her prize package included several items such as a hot tub.
There was also a secondary prize chance for those who didn’t win the grand prize, which was a draw for $500 cash. Cherie Ogle of Wood Mountain won the draw, which was selected by Wendy Zahariuk on Ogle’s behalf.
