A London couple are starting their Canada Day long weekend with a bang after discovering they have won the dream lottery.
Brian and Sharon Moore are the latest winners of the London Lottery in support of local hospitals and have a difficult decision to make of one of two dream homes or one with a $1 million chair.
Reacting to the news she and her husband had just lived, Sharon was in disbelief.
“Oh, you’re kidding,” she remarked. “I can’t believe it!”
Sharon said that she and her husband always buy tickets to the lottery.
Since launching the Dream Lottery in 1996, $50 million has been raised for local health care initiatives.
For the third time in a row, this year’s 50/50 ticket winner took home a record-setting amount. This year’s pot was $696,620 and it went to Al MacIsaac of London.
During a call to tell him that he had won, McIsaac said he supports the Dream Lottery because his wife is a longtime hospital patient.
Asked if he thinks he will ever win, he said the chances are “less than none.”
“I’ve never won anything in this lottery since we bought them.”
The two winners were announced on Thursday at the Royal Oak Dream Home in Thorndale.
Michelle Campbell, President and CEO of St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation, announced the grand prize winners and said that it is great to hear that they are regular participants in the Dream Lottery.
“We’ve had a really tough period in the last few years, and I think part of why there’s so much community support for the Dream Lottery is because we all need to dream,” Campbell said.
When asked about the impact of the lottery on the community, Campbell said the lottery is becoming more important to local health care.
“Government funding gives us the money we need to operate our hospitals, but it really comes through our foundation’s private philanthropy and fundraising that really provides a layer of excellence that allows us to get medical technology here. enables,” she said.
“Sometimes the dream lottery leads to medical advances in our community first, and while we can advance new treatments, we can promote research discovery in our hospitals. We can’t do this without the dream lottery. Were.”
The Dream Lottery supports the St Joseph’s Health Care Foundation, the London Health Sciences Foundation and the Children’s Health Foundation.
“Our community never ceases to amaze me,” said John MacFarlane, president and CEO of the London Health Sciences Foundation.
“Another record breaking 50/50 that will continue to make a difference in the lives of patients and families in London hospitals. Because you choose to care, our hospitals have state-of-the-art equipment, specialized treatment options and unprecedented research possible.”
All Dream Lottery and 50/50 prize results will be posted on the lottery website dreamitwinit.ca by July 7, 2022.
The Making a Difference Calendar Draw prizes will be announced daily on the lottery website from 1 July to 31 October 2022.
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