Kamloops woman claims $500,000 lottery prize

KAMLOOPS – A Kamloops woman heard about the $500,000 lottery winner, and joked to her friend that it was her who won. Little did she know she was right.

“My friend came over for breakfast and told me someone in Kamloops had won. I told her, jokingly, that it was me,” Doris Costain says in a B.C. Lottery Corporation media release.

Costain had a friend over who told her the news about a Lotto 6/49 Extra winner in Kamloops. When Costain went out later that day — and checked her lottery numbers — she realized the joke she had made was actually her new reality.

“When we went out shopping I checked the ticket and found out I hadn’t been joking… I had won,” she says.

Costain purchased the winning lottery ticket at a kiosk in the Aberdeen Mall. She says that winning the money will allow her to take a dream vacation, upgrade her vehicle, share with her family and live a little more comfortably as a retiree.

“I always said that if I have my health, I’ve won the lottery. Now I have really won the lottery, and I am so happy.”

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