Has Kraft Hockeyville already been named?

Kelowna, CHBC News : Saturday, March 31, 2012 5:30 PM

Has a winner already been crowned for Kraft Hockeyville?According to a news release issued by PR Newswire, the Ontario town of Stirling-Rawdon has won the national competition to receive $100,000 in arena upgrades and a visit from CBC's Hockey Night in Canada.  The winner was supposed to be announced Saturday night at 7:45 p.m. Pacific time. The District of West Kelowna was in the final five.  The news release issued at 10:45 a.m. Eastern time shows Stirling-Rawdon beat West Kelowna by more than 1 million votes. However, by 12:30 p.m. Eastern time, a retraction was issued. Phone calls to Kraft were not immediately returned. Andrew Deans, coordinator of West Kelowna Hockeyville, tells CHBC News the festivities will continue as planned. "There was some sort of false press release that came out. We saw it. Kraft saw it. We phoned them. It's been denied so that's where it's at right now," Deans said. Read the complete news release and retraction below: (more)

excerpt : More than 11 million votes were registered for the Top 5 communities, between March 17 and March 20, 2012. A breakdown of the final tally follows:

REGION COMMUNITY ARENA Votes
Ontario Stirling-Rawdon, Ontario Stirling District Recreation Centre 3,986,769
Pacific West Kelowna, British Columbia Royal LePage Place 2,789,594
Quebec Amos, Quebec Complexe Sportif De Amos 2,207,511
Atlantic Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Mariners Centre 1,655,475
West Duck Lake, Saskatchewan Beardy's Memorial Arena 903,260