(by Kayla Fraser)
“It feels so exciting but, a little at the same time, it feels unreal and unbelievable. It was just like it was all a dream,” she said.
Photo © Heather Taweel/The Guardian
Suzanne Birt was presented with a $500,000 cheque from Atlantic Lotto Tuesday for scratching a winning Atlantic Lottery ticket. Birt is well known to Islanders for her prowess as a curler.
Birt won her Classic Ruby scratch ticket at her parent’s convenience store in Summerside.
When she discovered she won, she said she almost couldn’t believe it.
“I just got very weak and my hands were shaking and I was sweating and I was just nervous and like ‘Oh my gosh’.”
Birt worked at the store where she purchased the ticket. The store has since changed hands in a sale arranged prior to Birt scratching the winning ticket.