First Of Two $20 Million Lottery Jackpot Winners Comes Forward
Posted June 14, 2007 12:00 pm.
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Unlike the seemingly endless parade of well-intentioned individuals who maintain that they’ll keep their humble day jobs despite winning multi-million dollar lotteries, Kenneth Bard has a loud and very clear message he’d like to relay to his boss – “I’m not coming back!”
Bard is a member of one of thee three Burlington families who will split half of Thursday’s $40 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot. The other winning ticket has yet to be cashed in.
The couples live on the same small street and have been buying tickets together for a year and-a-half, always dreaming that one day they would win the jackpot.
On Thursday, that dream came true.
“I was shaking,” admits Bill Brush, who shares his friend Kenneth’s liberating attitude towards unemployment. “I went to the manager’s office and I said I pretty much have to go and I think I quit! He understood completely.”
Canada’s newest millionaires aren’t sure what they’ll do with their sudden wealth, but they’re certain they won’t be sweating the small stuff.
“Right now it’s family and friends,” concludes Bill.
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