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What started as a way to honour a friend who passed away resulted in a Nanaimo woman winning the top prize on a scratch and win ticket.
Shelley Loeffen says she bought the Crossword Extreme ticket in her friend’s memory.
“It was her favourite and I purchased it to honour her,” Loeffen said in a news release.
Then when she scratched it, she at first didn’t believe her luck.
“At first, I was in denial and didn’t know if I should believe it. I thought it was a dream,” she said.
But when she checked her ticket, it all became a reality and she had, in fact, won $150,000.
Loeffen now plans on travelling to Holland with her winnings and investing in a new home.
BCLC says the odds of winning the top prize on the Crossword Extreme ticket is one in 350,000.
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