Mission woman makes lottery history
She’s the first to win Daily Grand draw
Margo Zecchini, B.C.’s first winner of the B.C. Lottery Corp.’s Daily Grand draw, says the whole thing feels like a dream.
“It feels unreal,” said the Mission resident who, along with her husband, is retired. “It’s hard to digest. It’s wonderful and it’s just like being in a dream.”
Zecchini’s winning ticket, which was drawn Thursday, was worth $25,000 a year for life, but she opted instead for a lump-sum payment of $500,000, lottery officials said.
Her number matched five out of five numbers, missing only the ‘grand number,’ which would have meant a payout of $1,000 a day or a lump-sum payment of $7 million.
Zecchini said she’s not sure what she’ll do with the money, only that she’ll share it with her husband, two grown daughters, her sons-in-law and grandchildren.
But, her husband is getting a new truck, she added, noting that he needed some convincing that she’d won.
The new lottery, to be drawn on Mondays and Thursdays, is played by selecting six numbers or having it done randomly for you by quick-pick, at $3 a pop.
There are five main numbers between one and 49, then the grand number between one and seven.
To win the grand prize you must match the five main numbers as well as the grand number.
Match the main five numbers only, and not the grand number, and you win the secondary prize, which Zecchini won.