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Next Stop: $500,000! Surrey Train Conductor Keeps Riding The Tracks After Winning Daily Grand Prize

Darpan News Desk, 06 Nov, 2019 06:43 PM


    A train conductor from Surrey is riding the tracks with an additional half a million dollars to his name after matching all five numbers in the October 21, 2019 Daily Grand draw to win the secondary prize of $25,000 a year for life.


    Even after winning big on Daily Grand and opting for the lump sum payment of $500,000, Nelson Botelho doesn’t plan to give up the job he loves.


    “I get to spend my day working with trains, doing what I love,” says Botelho. “Winning a half million dollars certainly makes it easier to pursue ‘Freedom 55’, though.”


    Botelho says it took a few days after the draw to realize he had a winning ticket in his wallet.


    “It was in my wallet for four days. I only remembered to check my ticket on the BCLC Lotto! App just before I went to bed… needless to say, I didn’t sleep for the rest of the night.”


    As for what comes next, Botelho says the $500,000 prize will help pay off his mortgage and leave enough for a trip to Portugal with his family.


    “I’ve always dreamed of being able to take my kids to the town that my parents grew up in.”

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