 |
| Winner with M Variety inset |
A weekly visit to the modest convenience store at 1495 Bayview Ave. has paid off for a Toronto man. Vincenzo Tassone popped in to see Gita and Vino again last week and picked up his usual 6/49 ticket. Tuesday night it was announced that the Saturday tumbling of the numbers threw up the same one printed on Mr. Tassone’s ticket. The jackpot, complete with some additional winnings, came to some $2.5 million dollars. No doubt stunned by his good fortune, he returned to M Variety to ask Gita for a copy of his receipt. For our money, M Variety is one of the nicer places to buy a lottery ticket. Gita is pretty savvy about such things and believes enormous lottery jackpots might be better if they were spread around. Gita and Vino have run the little shop just across the street from the Valu Mart since about 2005.
