2 Calgarians win millions in separate lottery draws

Southeast Calgary's Mike Manhasgotgood newswhen he checked his Lotto Max ticket.

He ran it through his Western Canada Lottery Corporation app following the May 25 draw for $1 million.

It said he'd won.

That seemed a little too good to be true, soManhaschecked it again and again, and again.

"I must have checked it six or eight times. I couldn't believe it," he said in a statement issued Tuesday by the lotto corporation. "Finally, I took it in to have a cashier check it for me.

"I checked it once more, a few days later, just to be sure."

'No more renting'

There was no mistake. Manhaswas $1 million richer.

"I never thought I would win the lottery," he said in the press release. "I always hoped for it, but I never thought it would happen."

Now that he's a confirmed million-dollar winner, Manhashas to figure out how to spend it.

"I'm going to buy a house no more renting," the statement said.

"And this is going to help me set up my kids' future. That's a great feeling."

Cashier's mistake turns to $2.5M

A week earlieron May 19,Cheryl Hunter went into a Shell station in northwest Calgary and asked for a Lotto Max ticket, the same asManhas.

The cashier messed up and pushed the Lotto 6/49 button by mistake.

"He apologized for printing the wrong ticket, but I told him I would take it anyway," she said in the lottery corporation's release.

The ticket soon turned into $2.5 million.

"When I first checked my ticket, I thought I had won $2,500," Hunter said. "Then I thought it was $250,000.

"I never thought I would win more than that I'm still not sure I believe it."

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