Kiama Fair Newsagency owner Mark Gladman celebrates the sale last week of the winning Oz Lotto ticket from his shop. The lucky person won more than $15.7 million. Picture: DYLAN ROBINSON
IT'S been the talk of the town - just who is Kiama's new multi-millionaire?
Don't hold your breath to find out, though. As you might expect, Kiama's luckiest person is opting to remain anonymous. However, the trick will be staying that way.
On March 13, the local regular Oz Lotto player's 13th game won the entire $15,780,632.65 division one jackpot. The ticket was bought at Kiama Fair Newsagency.
The winner was unaware of their luck until they were contacted by NSW Lotteries.
At first they thought the call from Lotteries officials was a prank and said they were 'flabbergasted' at the size of the win, but hoped to take a European vacation to celebrate at the end of this year.
Kiama Fair Newsagency owner Mark Gladman said he was thrilled to have sold it.
"It's fantastic - when I came to work on Tuesday I checked the terminal and got a shock when I saw the result," he said. "It's great that it was a local and even better still it is some positive news for Kiama after the recent tornadoes."
The biggest prize to come out of their agency before this was a $100,000 Lucky Lotteries prize several years ago.
"But who knows, now we have had one big winner, maybe the next one might be just around the corner."
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