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'Lucky Lynn’
strikes it rich!
Chris Clegg
for South Peace News
She may not have won the major $50 million Lotto
Max jackpot June 11, but the $250,000 Lynn Herben
won will do just well, thank-you!
The High Prairie resident was one of four people
to match all seven numbers on one of Lotto Max’s 27
Maximillions draws to split the $1 million prize. The
other three winners to match 4, 10, 24, 28, 33, 35 and
41 were from Ontario.
The odd thing is Herben says she never buys
Lotto Max lottery tickets.
“That was the first
time,” says Herben, who
says she was in Edmonton
when she overheard
a man at Superstore say
there was a huge jackpot.
“I thought I’d buy a
couple tickets,” says
Herben. “I was in town
doing errands and
bought some at IGA,
Rexall and Mac’s. The
ticket I won was bought
at Mac’s.”
Herben checked her
tickets at the High Prairie
Rexall Drug Store
June 14 and wasn’t sure
she had won a major
prize.
“I’m having a hard
time with my new bifocals,” she says. “I didn’t know
if it read $250, $2,500 or $25,000. I gave it to the clerk
to check and found out I’d won $250,000. I kind of
started to shake.”
Herben says the money will go straight into the
bank and her retirement plan.”
For now, Herben is done with buying lottery tickets.
“I’m done,” she says, adding she likes to play
bingo but hardly ever bought other lottery tickets.
Herben is scheduled to claim her prize at the
Western Canadian Lottery Corporation’s office in
St. Albert at 11 a.m. June 23.
Herben is the second major High Prairie lottery
winner to claim her prize in recent weeks. Judy
Hamelin won $100,000 by matching the Extra number
in the Jan. 8 Lotto Max draw but she did not
claim her prize until May 26.
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