Woman picks up lotto ticket before hockey game, becomes newest N.S. millionaire
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Sandra Lasaga of Eastern Passage, N.S., said she didn't even check her winning ticket until her sister told her that someone in her town had won.
Nova Scotia’s newest millionaire said she was en route to her grandson’s hockey game when she picked up what turned out to be a winning Lotto 6/49 ticket.
The winner, Sandra Lasaga from Eastern Passage, N.S., said in a press release, “I got the ticket, went to hockey and never thought anything of it until my sister said that someone in Eastern Passage won.”
The ticket was purchased at a Circle K in Eastern Passage N.S., for the Dec. 2 draw.
The draw was for two jackpots, the Classic at $5 million and the Gold Ball, which begins at $10 million and gradually grows or automatically provides a $1-million payout if a white ball is drawn in the selection process.
Lasaga said she hadn’t thought much more about the draw until her sister mentioned that the million-dollar ticket was purchased in her area.
When she first checked the winning numbers online, she saw that her ticket didn’t match a single digit on the Classic draw.
Her husband then had her check the Gold Ball jackpot and surely enough, the couple came to the conclusion that she was “that someone in Eastern Passage” when all the numbers on her ticket aligned with the ones on the screen.
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