$500,000 worth Lotto Max lottery ticket sold in Wonowon city

$500,000 worth Lotto Max lottery ticket sold in Wonowon city, the winner will soon be $500,000 times richer than before.

Andrei and Zinaida Milchevska from Saskatoon both won the big Lotto Max lottery ticket.

They bought the winning lottery ticket from a Petro Canada in Wonowon, B.C. on Highway 97, for the October 14 Lotto Max draw.

Andrei was in a night shift when he scanned the lottery ticket, and as soon as he discovered the win, he called his wife and wafe her up to a grand surprise. 

"Then I called my wife to tell her and woke her up, we both could not believe it," he said.

The couple is planning on celebrating their winnings with a nice dinner out and hope to put some of the money towards helping family and friends.