A trip to Italy is in the cards for one lucky Londoner who recently took home $1 million playing Encore.
Susan Van Egmond says she thought the lottery scanner at her local grocery store was broken at first when the words “BIG WINNER” appeared on screen as she scanned her Lotto Max ticket. Van Egmond had purchased the ticket a few days earlier from a Shell gas station on Oxford Street for the Aug. 18 draw.
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“The ticket was scanned again and when the manager said ‘That’s a winning ticket’ I was overcome with excitement; shaking, crying and hugging the store staff,” she said in a statement to the OLG, noting staff from the store soon joined her in celebration.
Van Egmond claimed her winnings at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto last week, joined by her mother and two girlfriends, OLG officials said.
“Winning the lottery is absolutely life changing for me,” she told the OLG. “It gives me a nest egg for the future and incredible peace of mind.”
Asked what she planned to do with the money, Van Egmond said she was excited to travel and hoped to visit friends in Italy and treat her mother to a cruise in Alaska.
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