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By meadowlakeNOW Staff

LOTTERY WIN

Meadow Lake man claims million-dollar prize

Oct 28, 2022 | 6:10 PM

A Meadow Lake man is still counting his lucky stars after winning $1 million in a recent lottery draw.

Stacey Lamothe discovered that he had won the big after her ticket matched all seven digits on one of the MAXMILLIONS prizes drawn on the Oct. 14 LOTTO MAX draw.

Two days after claiming his prize, Lamothe and his wife welcomed a baby girl.

“I finally got to sleep last night,” he laughed while picking up his cheque. “I wasn’t sleeping right after I won or right after the baby was born.”

Over a week after the draw, Lamothe returned to the same store to check his tickets.

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He said that after scanning his first ticket– a non-winner– his next ticket revealed his $1 million prize. But Lamothe didn’t believe what he was seeing so he put it at the bottom of the pile and continued right on scanning.

His next ticket was a $2 winner. “That’s more like it,” he said to himself, noting while claiming his prize later that the amount “seemed much more realistic” to him.

He scanned his $1 million winning ticket again and still couldn’t believe it, so he called a friend and said “I think this machine is crazy!” The two of them ended up scanning the ticket a couple more times.

“My friend told me, ‘You won a million dollars!’” Lamothe recalled.

Once his win was confirmed using the cashier’s terminal, things started to sink in and he called his wife to share the news.

Lamothe said he has a few plans for his winnings.

“I’m going to finish building my house, and I want to take my kids to Vancouver,” he said, adding that he also plans to buy a new vehicle.

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