‘My husband told me to count the zeroes’
For one Calgary woman, a gas station pit stop out of town has turned into an extremely profitable visit, netting her a winning Lotto 6/49 draw.
Josephine Leduc purchased her lucky ticket at a Shell gas station in Brooks this summer, which won her a guaranteed prize of $1 million in the Lotto 6/49 Gold Ball draw on July 17.
The winnings from a white ball, 20760509-01, were a few orders of magnitude larger than she first thought.
“I checked my ticket on the Lotto Spot app and thought I won $1,000,” she said in a statement released Monday by the Western Canada Lottery Corp. “I checked the ticket again and thought it was $10,000.”
“My husband told me to count the zeros,” she said with a laugh. “Unbelievable. It’s just unbelievable.”
The unexpected lottery windfall will mainly serve to bolster her family’s savings, according to Leduc.
“We’re going to put aside some money for our child and share some of the money with our family,” she said.
“After that, I think we’ll look into investing and maybe some travelling.”
Leduc joins a number of Calgarians who’ve been visited by Lady Luck so far this year, winning $1 million or more in WCLC lottery prizes.
“I believe in God and God showed me not in one dream but in a series of dreams that I won the lottery, it was four nights in a row back in 1986,” Jutzi said July 3.
The trio of now-multimillionaires — Carmen Austria, Gary Perkins and Catherine Wall — have been friends for 20 years and started buying tickets together in 2007, they told a news conference on Feb. 7.
“I’m happy that the three of us get to share this. It’s a lot of money anyway, I mean, I don’t know what I would have done with $50 million alone,” said Austria.