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Lucky, Lucky: Man In Winnipeg Wins Second Million-Dollar Lottery Prize

The Canadian Press, 11 Sep, 2018 06:57 PM
    WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg man has won a $2-million lottery prize — five months after he won $1.5 million.
     
     
    Melhig Melhig, a double winner with a double name, says he's amazed and happy by his good fortune.
     
     
    His first win came in April with a scratch ticket bought at a Winnipeg convenience store.
     
     
    The 28-year old African immigrant then moved his wife and children out of their small apartment and into a new home.
     
     
    Melhig continued to play the lottery and bought another scratch ticket from a Giant Tiger store in Winnipeg in August.
     
     
    He says he now plans to buy a business, such as a gas station or car wash, and go back to school.
     
     
    "I want to improve my English and communication. And I want to learn something useful, like carpentry," he said in a press release.
     
     
    Western Canada Lottery Corporation says Melhig isn't the first to win a second million-dollar lottery prize in the Manitoba.
     
     
    A woman who bought a ticket at her grandson's hockey tournament in Winnipeg won $1 million in 2005, then claimed the same prize two years later after buying another ticket, again, at her grandson's hockey tournament.

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