Mukhtar Arifov won $100,000 on a scratch ticket he bought at Cherry Lane in Penticton. SUBMITTED/B.C. Lottery Corporation

Penticton man eyeing new truck with $100,000 scratch ticket win

A Penticton man who won $100,000 on a scratch ticket is in now in the market for a new truck.

Mukhtar Arifov bought a Snowflake 777 scratch ticket at the Cherry Lane Mall in Penticton and it turned out to be a grand-prize winner.

“I realized I won so I went back and said, ‘I won!’ and asked the cashier to check it,” he said in a B.C. Lottery Corporation press release.
 

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“This will be a very big change – I am now able to buy a vehicle and a better place.”

The truck Arifov is thinking about buying is a Chevy.

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Dan Walton

Before joining the ranks of InfoTel, Dan’s byline could be found in newspapers in Penticton, Peachland and Oliver. Prior to his arrival in the South Okanagan, he first sharpened his chops as a reporter at a radio station in Brighton, Ontario, and then newspapers in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, and Invermere B.C.
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