By Nelson Daily Staff
Have you travelled to Kelowna lately?
What about Vernon?
When you were in the Central Okanagan Cities, did you perhaps purchase a lotto ticket? A Lotto Max Ticket? A 6/49 ticket?
Better check them quickly as it's been said the one winning ticket for the $50 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw was sold in Kelowna.
The one winning ticket for the $5-million 6/49 jackpot in Saturday night's was sold in Vernon, B.C.
The BC Lottery Corporation said this is the second time a big Lotto-Max winner has been found in Kelowna in 2016.
In the February 20 Lotto 6/49 draw, a resident won $21.9 million.
During Friday's draw the seven MaxMillions on the draw with one million-dollar prize claimed by a ticket purchased in the Prairies.
The grand prize for next Friday's draw will be approximately $16 million.
On March 18 a Toronto ticket holder won a $60 million Lotto Max jackpot.
The BC Lottery Corporation said the store in Kelowna where the ticket was purchased would be announced after the winner has claimed $50 million prize.
