Cleaning staff clean up with $14.2M lottery win

Saturday, March 18, 2006 posted 05:36 AM EST

Two Regina co-workers have gone from cleaning rags to lottery riches.

Donna Eason and Dante Potoma, who work as apartment cleaners, won the top prize, $14.2 million, in Wednesday's Lotto 6/49 draw. Potoma said he thought his colleague was joking when she told him about the win.

"She said, 'We won.' I said, 'No it's not April Fools day,'" he said. "Then I saw the ticket and it was like, 'Wow!'"

Even with a door-sized cheque in her hands, Eason, 36, said the reality has yet to sink in that she is a co-winner of $14 million.

She does, however, have some plans for the money, including buying a house and a new pick-up truck. She was recently in the process of getting a loan for a new motorbike – a loan she'll no longer need.

The winning numbers were 2, 7, 15, 23, 25, 45 and 41.

Eason and Potoma, 29, work as cleaners for a property management company and say they like their jobs.

The $14 million jackpot is the largest win in Regina and the third largest prize claimed in Saskatchewan.

Last month, a Saskatoon couple won $14.7 million on a 6/49 ticket purchased in Wynyard.

The largest prize in Saskatchewan history was $16.6 million won in a Super 7 draw on April 19, 1996. That prize was claimed by a construction worker from Sheho.

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