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Donostia-San Sebastian. There were a total of 207 people who sent emails to participate in the raffle from 13 different countries; besides the Basque Country,from  Argentina, the US, Peru, Spain, Colombia, France, brazil Catalonia, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and Italy.

Eleven emails were disqualified because they were incomplete, didn’t include which prize was desired, or were sent after the deadline.  In relation to the prize it is worth noting that 18 people opted for the Joanes comic book, 24 wanted the Kaliforniakoak book, another 74 opted for the Cocina Vasca Campesina book with another 80 hoping for a Korrontzi CD.

WINNERS

-Joanes; Pablo Pavesa, Chacabuco, Buenos Aires, Argentina

-Kaliforniakoak: Marisa Arruabarrena, Orio, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country

-Cocina: Carlos Galarza, San Ignacio, Misiones, Argentina

-Korrontzi: Roberto Guerenabarrena, Portsmouth, RI, USA

Raffle entries came from the following places:

ARGENTINA. Buenos Aires, province of Buenos Aires (Bahia Blanca, Chacabuco, Saladillo, Necochea, Arrecifes, Luján, General Rodríguez, La Plata, Suipacha, Villa Adelina, Ayacucho, San Miguel, Chivilcoy, Mar del Plata, Carmen de Patagones, San Fernando, José María Ezeiza, Coronel Villegas, Coronel Pringles, Pehuajó, Ituzaingó), Santa Fe (Santa Fe, Rosario), Entre Ríos (Concordia, Paraná, Concepción del Uruguay), Río Negro (Viedma, San Carlos de Bariloche), Tucumán (San Miguel de Tucumán), Chubut (Puerto Madryn), Misiones (San Ignacio, Corpus Christi), Mendoza (Mendoza), La Pampa (Santa Rosa), Neuquén (Plottier) and Córdoba (Córdoba, Río Cuarto)

BASQUE COUNTRY. Bilbao, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Zamudio, Gernika-Lumo, Orio, Donostia, Azkaine, Leioa, Zarautz, Andoain, Burlada, Barakaldo, Segura, Iruña-Pamplona, Hendaia, Donibane Garazi, Elizondo, Lesaka, Errenteria, Lazkao

UNITED STATES. Utah (Salt Lake City, Holladay), Florida (Miami), California (Reseda, Fort Bragg, San Francisco, Burbank, Redwood City, Chino Hills, Ontario, Bakersfield, Santa Rosa, Yuba City, San Diego), Ohio (Bexley), Rhode Island (Portsmouth), Idaho (Boise, Mountain Home), Nevada (Reno, Sparks), New York (New York), Oregon (Portland)

PERU. Lima

SPAIN. Alcorcón, Alicante, Murcia, Madrid, Valladolid

COLOMBIA. Chia-Cundinamarca, Medellín

FRANCE. Paris

BRAZIL. Sao Paulo, Recife, Foz de Iguazú-Paraná

CATALONIA. Barcelona

CHILE. Ñuñoa, Las Condes, Santiago, Viña del Mar

MEXICO. Mexico City, Monterrey

URUGUAY. Montevideo, Salto

ITALY. Rome, Reggio-Calabria

Folks who didn’t win should stay tuned because there will be another raffle soon.

Once again the prizes in this first raffle of 2014

1. – Comic entitled, Joanes, Priest of Pirates, from the Joanes or the Basque Whaler  series, situated in the history of Basque whalers on the North American coast, drawn and published in English in the US by Guillermo Zubiaga, Basque cartoonist in New York.

2. – Kaliforniakoak (1533-1848), a 495-page book by Asun Garikano that gathers Basque news and testimonies of the Basque presence and participation in historic California from the first Western arrival by sea to the territory, to the time that Meixcan Alta California becomes part of the United States under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.

3. – Cocina vasca campesina (Basque Rural Cooking), in Spanish by Maria Echave, Basque-Argentine author, that gathers recipes, stories and texts about dishes and experiences developed around the kitchens in Basque-Argentinean homes in its 180 pages.

4. – CD Korrontzi, tradition 2.1 by the Basque folk group Korrontzi with traditional Basque music based on the trikitixa with 16 songs that include elements and support of instruments from other cultures, with a spectacular, happy danceable result.