{"id":77986,"date":"2025-11-01T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=77986"},"modified":"2025-10-31T18:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:42:06","slug":"thunder-bays-sharon-badanai-wins-2-6-million-in-october-thunder-bay-50-50-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/01\/thunder-bays-sharon-badanai-wins-2-6-million-in-october-thunder-bay-50-50-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Bay\u2019s Sharon Badanai Wins $2.6 Million in October Thunder Bay 50\/50 Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>When the phone rang at 11:00 a.m., Thunder Bay\u2019s Sharon Badanai had no idea she was about to become a multi-millionaire. Her ticket was the lucky one drawn for $2,632,450<\/b>\u00a0in the Thunder Bay 50\/50 October draw \u2014 the third-largest grand prize ever awarded.<\/div>\n
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The news felt especially close to home when Glenn Craig, CEO of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation, learned who the October winner was. Glenn and Sharon share a community connection through Fort William Rotary, a reminder of just how close-knit Thunder Bay truly is.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always excited to make these winning calls,\u201d said Craig. \u201cBut today was extra special \u2014 this was someone I know, a fellow Rotarian, and it felt incredible to be able to deliver the life-changing news to her.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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When Glenn made the call, Sharon answered as she would any other, completely unaware that her life was about to change. After a bit of small talk, she realized what time it was and everything started to make sense. She said, \u201cIt\u2019s Friday at 11:00,\u201d and Glenn replied, \u201cYeah, it is.\u201d Then came her realization: \u201cAre you serious?\u201d Glenn teased back, \u201cWhy do you think I\u2019m calling, Sharon?\u201d Still in disbelief, she told him, \u201cLet me sit down.\u201d<\/div>\n
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As a regular Thunder Bay 50\/50 supporter, Sharon was stunned. \u201cYou always say, \u2018if only this would happen to me,\u2019 and then when it does, you think, really?\u201d she said.<\/div>\n
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With six children and a few practical plans already in mind, Sharon says she\u2019ll start with hiring an electrician for some needed work at home and maybe replacing her 11-year-old van. \u201cWait until my kids hear about this,\u201d she laughed.<\/div>\n
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To date, the Thunder Bay 50\/50 has created nine multi-millionaire winners, with more than $79 million in prizes awarded to players across Ontario.<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the phone rang at 11:00 a.m., Thunder Bay\u2019s Sharon Badanai had no idea she was about to become a multi-millionaire. Her ticket was the lucky one drawn for $2,632,450\u00a0in the Thunder Bay 50\/50 October draw \u2014 the third-largest grand prize ever awarded. The news felt especially close to home when Glenn Craig, CEO of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 07:30:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77988,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77986\/revisions\/77988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}