‘I can’t believe it’: Patrick Chilton pocketed a huge 50\/50 prize that generated plenty of ticket purchases across Northern Ontario, including in the Sault<\/p>\n
The staggering pot for the Thunder Bay Hospital Foundation 50\/50 draw is coming to Timmins.<\/p>\n
Patrick Chilton of Timmins and Moose Factory is the winner of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences\u00a0Foundation’s December draw, taking home a record-breaking $7,720,930 grand prize for hospital 50\/50’s.<\/p>\n
He was on his way to breakfast when he got the life-changing call.<\/p>\n
“I can’t believe it. I’ve always supported the Foundation and other hospitals. I worked in health care for a long time,” Chilton said on the call.<\/p>\n
Chilton held several roles in the health care industry, including time with Weeneebayko Area Health Authority in the James Bay region and in Sioux Lookout, Northwestern Ontario.<\/p>\n
This pot is a record-breaking amount, surpassing\u00a0last year’s win by Natalie and Clem Bigras of Hanmer, Ontario, who took home $6,436,355.<\/p>\n
Before receiving the call, Chilton and his wife were considering where they’d like to travel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess we\u2019re going on a vacation,\u201d he said, with Mexico already part of the conversation.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I can’t believe it’: Patrick Chilton pocketed a huge 50\/50 prize that generated plenty of ticket purchases across…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":488721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50,220497],"class_list":{"0":"post-488720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-thunder-bay-regional-health-sciences-foundationpatrick-chilton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115829472348432479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}