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‘It really takes the edge off’: BC friends win $1M playing lottery together

Fraser Valley residents Richard Courteen-Nurse and David Fisher are colleagues turned friends, and they enjoy playing the lottery together.

That enjoyment turned to ecstasy a few days ago as the pair won a whopping $1-million from the Lotto 6/49 draw on June 14.

Courteen-Nurse, a Harrison Mills resident, was the one who discovered the duo’s win by checking the BCLC Lotto! app.

“When I first saw the numbers, I said [a combination of expletives],” he explained, with his excited verbiage clearly too much for the BCLC to include in its media release.

<who>Photo Credit: BCLC

For Fisher, who lives in Mission, it was quite the wake-up call, as he recalls that he “was getting into a deep sleep” when Courteen-Nurse called him with the life-changing news.

He said it’s “just perfect for the start of [his] retirement” and is already planning a vacation to Mexico with the money.

Courteen-Nurse, on the other hand, will use his winnings towards the purchase of a new home.

“It really takes the edge off,” Courteen-Nurse explained of how it feels to win such a significant amount of money.

The winning ticket was purchased at the London Drugs on London Avenue in Mission.



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