Carlo Addamo, top, from Target Lotto and Rod and Rita Johnson from Wyndham Village Lotto and News.
By XAVIER SMERDON
TWO Wyndham stores are proving that lightning can strike twice as division one winning lottery tickets were sold at different ends of the municipality last week.
Target Lotto, located in the Hoppers Crossing Shopping Centre, sold two division one tickets while Wyndham Village Lotto and News from the Wyndham Village Shopping Centre in Tarneit also sold one.
It is the second winning ticket sold from Wyndham Village Lotto and News recently, which sold another one on Christmas Eve.
Owner Rod Johnson attributed the winning streak to a lucky Buddha statue kept in the store.
“It’s our eighth major win in just six years,” Mr Johnson said.
“We bought a little Buddha statue in 2007 and since we’ve had him in the store, that’s when all the division ones have come in.”
The winning tickets from the two stores were part of the same syndicate, meaning that the lucky winners walked away with just under $90,000 each.
Carlo Addamo from Target Lotto, which also sold division one tickets on 3 October and 22 October said amazingly, one of last week’s winners was also a winner last time.
In total the Hoppers Crossing resident has won around $1.3 million from the store.
“I rang her on Sunday morning and said ‘you know what it means when I ring on a Sunday’, and straight away she knew,” Mr Addamo said.
