Ooleepeeka Stoney almost didn’t buy the lottery ticket that resulted in a major lottery win. But at the last second, the Iqaluit resident decided to try a $100,000 PER YEAR FOR LIFE SCRATCH ’N WIN ticket, and she won $50,000!
Ooleepeeka bought her winning ticket from the Iqaluit Amateur Hockey Association Lotto Booth at the Northmart store in Iqaluit. “I was buying some other tickets, looking at this one and thinking, ‘Should I buy it, or not?’” she remembered. “I bought it, and I won!”
The lucky winner had uncovered the second-highest prize available on the $20 instant lottery ticket – her choice of a 2012 GMC Terrain, or $50,000. Ooleepeeka chose the cash prize.
“I started laughing and freaking out – there were so many emotions going through me!” she remembered. “I still can’t believe it to this day; it made me believe that an ordinary person like me really can win something like this!”
Although she hadn’t yet made concrete plans for her windfall at the time she claimed her prize, Ooleepeeka said she was thinking about buying a new vehicle and building a cabin
