H&M Tracey's Saints fans in 'heaven'

Written on the 5 June 2017

A south-east Melbourne couple won the trip of a lifetime to Broome thanks to a local business owner, but it almost slipped through the fingers of the diehard St Kilda fans.

H&M Tracey Construction owner Harold Tracey has sponsored St Kilda Football Club for five years and ran a competition for Saints members to win a trip to the Kimberley town, as a way to promote Broome as a tourist destination.

David and Leonie Fisher were the lucky winners, but in the modern world of email inboxes flooded with spam, Mrs Fisher nearly dismissed the email congratulating her as a scam.

"I got an email saying 'you've won a trip to Broome, please notify us immediately'," she said.

"I just ignored it and deleted it because I thought it was spam.

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Source: Broome Advertiser