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TWO NORTH Vancouver lottery ticket salesmen helped a
33-year-old North Shore executive parlay an $18 weekend
investment into six lottery prizes totalling $3.7 million from

the Feb. 27 Lotto 6/49 draw.

Lewis Burke said he was
“ecstatic”? Monday after picking
up his $3,788,659 cheque from the
B.C. Lottery Corp.

The vice-president of marketing
for a Vancouver real estate firm
said he invested $18 in 18 6/49
selections at Friendly Glen's on
Lonsdale Avenue at 17th Street.

It was his first crack at the lot-
tery game.

But the numbers on the three,
six-number tickets were picked by
Friendly Glen’s Glen Masson, 60,

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reparter

and his associate, Ron Davis, 55.
In addition to his $3.6 million
share of the $7.2 million lottery
jackpot, which will be shared with
a ticket purchased in Quebec,
Burke won two _five-out-of-six
winning number prizes plus the
bonus number, worth $83,802.70,
two prizes of $756.10 for two
five-number combinations and one

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four-out-of-six prize, worth
$40.50. All the prizes were won on
one of the tickets, using eight
numbers in different combina-
tions. Masson and Davis called
Burke at his home after they con-
firmed the winning numbers.

Lottery corporation spokesman
Michele Pankratz said the odds
against one ticket winning six
prizes were phenomenal.

“The odds against winning the
jackpot alone are one in 14 mil-
lion,”’ she said. ‘‘For all the
numbers on one ticket to be win-
ners is very unusual.”

Burke, who did not pick up his
tickets when he bought them and
did not even know which numbers

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had been selected for him by
Masson and Davis, said he will
make good on his promise to give
the two lottery booth workers 10
per cent ($370,000) of his winn-
ings.

**] was very impressed with their
honesty and integrity,’’ Burke
said. ‘Il mean, they could have
claimed the numbers were theirs."’

Masson said he and Davis had
selected the numbers alternately,
initially choosing what he said
were strong numbers, such as 47,
the draw’s bonus number, ‘first
i'd call out one then he'd call out
one. He (Burke) said he didn’t

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