B.C. man claims jackpot lottery win

Sweet dreams are made of this.

Ron Cumiskey was just about to turn off the light and go to sleep last week when he decided to check his Lotto 6/49 ticket from the May 27, 2020 draw.

The resident of Aldergrove B.C. pulled out his phone and his ticket, and was amazed to learn he had won $24,339, 459 by matching all the numbers.

“I checked it two, three, four times before it finally sank in,” he said. “It’s the dream you never think is going to come true.”

After telling his roommate and his girlfriend about his win, he called his boss of more than 20 years. “I said ‘Frank – I’m retiring! You know that (lottery) winner in Aldergrove? That’s me!'”

Cumiskey is the third B.C. resident to win the Lotto 6/46 jackpot in 2020, and claimed his life-changing prize through BCLC’s alternate prize-claim process. In April, White Rock’s Tibor Tusnady won $16 million and in March, Burnaby’s Saeid Ebrahimi won $5 million playing Lotto 6/49.

As for how he plans to spend his prize, Cumiskey says he’s always wanted to visit Pearl Harbor and the East Coast of Canada. But first, his priority is to take care of the people he loves.

“I want to spend it helping the people that are close to me and have been there for me through my life,” he said.