34 - Friday, May 14, 1999 - North Shore News Celebrating 25, 2:00 p.m. Where? North Vancouver Capilano Mall Who's invited? Everyone...it’s free...just show up! Who's playing? Seven Scratch & Wir players, ali from the North Shore — are you one of them? Plus these North Shore Stars of '74; ¢ Jennifer Sharpe, who was born in 1974 ¢ Barry & Jo-Anne De Meyer, married in 1974 Who's winning? All these people — and prebably more from the crowd entering at the draw! What happens? * Players press the PYNAgator — 2s easy as ringing the doorbell — to pick numbers. ° Scratch & Win contestanis will win double the sum of their seven lottc numbers (six numbers plus the bonus number) from the PYNAgator for cash prizes of $56 to $2,318. Stars of '74 will win dollar for dollar, what they land on, and their prizes range from $28 to $1,159. ¢ There are cash prizes and merchandise gifts to be won. ° if players and on a doubler, they double your sum right awayt * The lowest possible total (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) totals 28. ¢The highest possible total (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49) is 322 and, with doublers, can pay up to $2,318. * Both results — and thousands upon thousands in between — are equally likely, or unlikely. ar that: ‘The refurbished steam locomotive Royal Hudson made its inaugural run to Squamish. Wayne Gretzky was in the eighth grade. Richard H. Clarke, a 71-time blood donor, was elected president of the North Vancouver branch, Canadian Red Cross Society. Jaws, the book, led to the movie of the same name, the work of a 27-year-old unknown director named Steven Spielberg, whose only previous success had been The Sugarland Express. The Greater Vancouver Operatic Society, on its 25th anniversary, presented the Gilbert and Suilivan operetta “The Yeomen of the Guard,” at the North Vancouver Centennial Theatre. Little League Baseball, Inc., voted to allow girls to play on its teams. Popular maitre d' Augusto Pecoretii and first-ciass chef Wolfgang Goudriaan joined forces to create a new restaurant, the Savory, “a stone's throw" from the dock at Deep Cove. The Sting won the best picture Academy Award. Approximately $1,500 was raised at the first Heritage Ball where donations were made to the Arts Centre building fund. Terry Fox entered Grade 11 at Port Coquitlam Secondary School after graduating from Mary Hill Junior Secondary. The North Vancouver City public library moved into new quarters at the Civic Centre on West 14th St. and offered a wide variety of new services for the reading public. Philadelphia Flyers became the first NHL expansion team to win the Stanley Cup. Sentinel Secondary put ont its biggest musical production ever with the opening of the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit, Carousel. You could buy two pairs of jeans for $5.00, and a 24-bottle case of beer for $5.90. Andrew B. Dunwoody earned the Association of Prefessional Engineers Gold Medal for topping the UBC graduating class in engineering. rsary years of lotteries. You've probably heard the stary, How the big, big, big lottery company comes into your community, scooping up cash. [Fthis is what you heard. you'll be interested in knowing what exactly this “big, big, big company” has really been doing for all B.C, and forthe Narth Shore in particular! For 25 years. it's been making millionaires of British Columbians (more than 350 now). Is been developing a base of retailers who create jobs (more than 2.100 province-wide), It’s been sponsoring events (Expo 86, Canada Games, B.C. Games). But your tife on the North Shore has been affected, too, by 25 years of playing lotteries. The “big, big, big lottery company” has made many North Shore people lucky, creating thousands and thousands of louery winners. It's an institution in your community, with North Shore lottery retailers who have created jobs aiid economic benefits. I's advertised in your paper. it’s become your friendly neighbour, sponsoring or supporting events such as building renovations for North Shore Neighbourhood House, a new vehicle for the North Shore St. John's Ambulance, SPeeoecseveseceeeosvesesceeeaevoenvneer cea vaees parents and kids, secon for teens and third for seniors,” says Gary. “: think it [the lottery grant] was for substantial development of the wave There’s a nice philosophy at Karen Magnussen Rec Centre's leisure pool. “We really want peopte to just come in and have fun,” says Gary Young, recreation director, who adds that several years ago officials at the centre, “did a detailed needs assessment for swimming pools in the Lynn Valley area.” That's where lotteries came into the picture, with financial support. “We found the number one need was for FPSC®SHFSSSFA#CHECHEZECOHCEHHEREOOCHEHHEHBE89E renovations to the West Vancouver Capilano Sportsmen's Club and the construction of a multi-use emergency facility at Lions Bay. Lotteries also were responsible far suppart af more than $300,000 for the District of North Vancouver ...the lottery is going to have a party! Aquatic Centre. Now, after 25 years of being your friendly neighbour and of having had an influence on your community, “the lottery” is going to have a party. It's coming to have a little fun. to ceiebrate this quarter-century association with the North Shore, with a fantastic special draw machine called a PYNAgator. And you're invited! Coming to town — May 30th at Capilano Mall — is the excitement of the lottery. Not pool.” millions of dollars that will change your life, but enough to bring some fun into your life. Coming to town is the PYNAgator, the draw machine that allows North Shore people to gencrate winning numbers and win prizes for THEM.,..and likely their neighbours. Coming to the draw, to draw the lucky nurubers, tre seven North Shore players who scratched “ENTRY” on their Seratch & Win ticket. They'll draw winning numbers, and win prizes, One of them will go to Richmond far the regional finals of the 25th Anniversary Draw, to win more money and prizes. Those of you attending the draw can win, too. Every time a contestant hits “GIFT” on the PYNAgator, somebody in the crowd will win a gift. To enter, bring a non-winning B.C. lottery ticket to Capilano Mall on May 30th, at 2:00 p.m. Everybody plays for what North Shore folks have been playing for since 1974 — lottery prizes. How long has 25 years been? Well, put it this way: in 1974, you couldn't go to the video store and rent a movie to watch at home that night. Because in 1974, there weren't any video stores, North Van already had three competitive pools in the system. “When you look at kids and seniors, they're looking for something other than the . traditional! pool,” he adds. “The seniors really like it because it has a zero level entry.” Here’s what happens when you become a lottery draw machine: You press squares ~ just like you'd press a doorbell, You ge? seven numbers...six plus a bonus...just like it’s a 6/49 or BC/49 draw. Only when you pick the numbers, you win the prizes that come from these numbers. The machine's a PYNAgator — a Pick Your Numbers Automatically generator. On May 30th at the Capilano Mall, seven Seratch & Win “Anniversary” players from this community will pick numbers. They'll win cash prizes. Qne of them will ge to Richmond for the regional draw. One winner from Richmond will go to the provincial draw in Vancouver next month. . At every draw, the prizes will be determined by the sum of the numbers the winners pick. Beginner’s Luck It was a good start. That's what Zvonko Levar still remembers. The North Shore resident won $10 on the first time he played 6/49. It was the first time ne anyborly played 6/49 — June 12th, 1982, “On the very first draw, I won ten dollars,” he says. “And | thought: “Well, that was easy!’” In January 1993, his luck was even betier. Zvonko won $20,000 on Club Keno. He remembers that, loo. “It was great, a real happy feeling,” he says. At the time, he was on holidays. “That made it even more special and fun,” Zvonko adds. “1 paid some bills and went to Hawaii for a week where I just sat on the beach.” OTTER RI in the first year of playing lotteries, the Province of British Columbia received $4 million from lottery sales. Twenty-five years later, the province receives mare than $300 million. aaee What do winners do with their lottery prizes? Surveys show that almost 80 per cent of them put the money in the bank! The goad news is that 60 per cent of them share their winnings with families...lucky families! wre Lottery retailer commissions in 1974 were $750,000. tn 1998, retailer commissions totalled $60 _ Million. | Advertising feature oe ee ee ee re Sin rrr er err rit i irri t rrr rrr rt rrr hr Sere reer ne rer raw on North Shore Fun and Games Annie Labee knows so well what brings her customers back to Winson’'s Market in North Vancouver. The tickets. “If the customer wins, they come back,” Annie explains, “and if they don't wiu they will come back.” Annie is the daughter of Kou Chee and Chang Kwan Lum, the owners of Winson'’s for “a long time” and lottery retailers since 1985. “I think people have a fot of fun with it (playing the different games},” she says, “and the nicest thing about being a retailer is that it's such a positive thing when they win.” Anne Barre drove away from her big day in the lottery sun...and her life has taken off since. In 1974, the year the first’ lottery ticket was sold in B.C., Anne graduated from Argyie Secondary on the North Shore. Foucteen years later, she won $72,884.80 on 6/49. “Stunned disbelief,” is how she describes her reaction that day. “Then my dad told me to stop teasing him when I told him what I had won. 1 was buying a car so [ just bought ‘a slightly nicer one."” A Simon Fraser University graduate in biology, she chose to invest the remainder of her prize. Today, she is a flight attendant for Canadian Airlines and regulariy travels to Taipei, Beijing and London. “I still buy 6/49 tickets,” she says, “and the occasional . Double Dip. I know a lot of {lottery} money has gone to charities and helping. people out.”