A retired couple from Smithville east of Hamilton has been revealed as the winners of a $23.3-million Lotto 649 jackpot. Bob and Sandra Donaldson were overjoyed and overwhelmed (as shown above) when they picked up their cheque at Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation headquarters in Toronto Wednesday. They have been married for 36 years and plan only modest goals with their winnings.They will share with family and buy a new car. Oh yeah, they need a walk-in closet. Mr. Donaldson is a manager at Dofasco (the Dominion Foundry and Steel Co) and was in China on the job when Sandra found out about the lottery win. She didn’t tell him until nearly a week later when he came home. The CBC took this to conclude that Donaldson had 23 million reasons to forgive Sandra for forgetting to clean up after their dog, as he had asked. The precise sum of the win is $23,324,912.20.
