Penticton couple eyeing new car after $50K lotto win

It was very early in the morning when a Penticton couple discovered their lottery ticket was a $50,000 winner.

Leading up to the Lotto 6/49 draw on Sept. 4, Garry and Mary Altwasser purchased their winning ticket from Save-On-Foods on Main Street in Pentction.

During the wee hours of the morning while at home in their kitchen, the couple decided it was a good time to check their ticket.

“My wife looked up the numbers at 3 a.m.,” Garry said in a press release from the B.C. Lottery Corporation. “She checked the first number and then realized that we won the guaranteed prize. We just thought, ‘great, fantastic, woohoo!’”

The Altwassers plan to use their winnings towards the cost building a new home and to purchase a new new vehicle.

“It’s incredibly awesome,” said Mary. “For many days after I kept saying ‘fifty thousand, fifty thousand’… I think I’m more excited than my husband.”

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