Holding out for a hybrid? You have until approximately 2 p.m. on Friday, April 21, 2013 to buy tickets for the Claremont Educational Foundation’s 2012-2013 Toyota Prius Car Raffle.

Tickets to win a 2012 Toyota Prius C, donated to the Claremont Educational Foundation (CEF) by Claremont Toyota, are $20. They are being sold by members of the CEF board and at various locations in the Claremont Unified School District, including the school offices at Chaparral, Condit, Mountain View, Sumner, Danbury, Oakmont, Sycamore and El Roble schools.

You can also buy raffle tickets from members of the Claremont High School Speech and Debate Team and from members of the CHS classes of 2013 and 2014 as well as from the CHS Cheer Team (also available at City Hall), with a portion of ticket sales benefiting the student groups.

Those 18 and older may purchase as many tickets as they wish. If less than 1,000 raffle tickets are sold, the Grand Prize winner will receive $10,000 rather than a Prius.

This is the third year in a row Claremont Toyota has donated a Prius to be raffled off by the Claremont Educational Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1991 to promote quality public education in the Claremont Unified School District.

CEF funds art and music instruction at elementary schools in CUSD and technology at El Roble Intermediate and Claremont High School as well as sponsoring the popular SLICE summer enrichment program.

A representative of Claremont Toyota will randomly draw a winning ticket at about 2 p.m. on April 21 at the showroom of Claremont Toyota (508 Auto Center Dr. in Claremont). You do not have to be present to win.

For information, contact the Claremont Educational Foundation at 399-1709 or info@ClaremontEducationalFoundation.org. Or visit www.claremonteducationalfoundation.org.