By Laura Steiner, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Milton Reporter
A Milton resident is celebrating after winning $100,000 in OLG lottery’s 6/49 draw which she calls her ‘first big win’.
Megan Difrancescantonio matched the last six of seven Encore numbers in exact order in the December 21, 2022 lotto 6/49 draw to win the big prize.
Megan, a 38-year-old government employee, said she has a lottery subscription, and this is her first big win.
“I got an email. I was very happy to see the news,” she said while at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto to pick up her winnings. “I told my husband, and he was very happy too.”
Megan said she doesn’t have any plans for her winnings. “It’s a surreal and exciting experience,” she concluded.
The winning ticket was purchased on OLG.ca.
OLG is a crown agency that conducts and manages land-based gaming facilities; the sale of province-wide lottery games; Internet gaming; and the delivery of bingo and other electronic gaming products at Charitable Gaming Centres.
Since 1975, OLG, it says, has provided nearly $57 billion to the people and Province of Ontario to support key government priorities like health care; the treatment and prevention of problem gambling; and support for amateur athletes. It says that its 100 percent of profits are i
