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Cadets on review The Royal Canadian Sea Cadets, Bowmanville Branch, held their annual review at the Orono Arena, last Sunday. P02 Patrick Crawford, (L) received an award for being the most improved officer, L/C Linda Lazenby (C) was recognized as the Cadet of the Year, and Best Junior NCO. CPÔ1 D.M. Luciano, (R) received the Legion's Medal of Excellence. BASIC BLACK ARTHUR BLACK Lotteries - You've got a Lotto Lost Not long ago a Quebec woman wrote a book about becoming a multimillionaire. She was qualified - she picked the whining ticket in a provincial provincial lottery and scooped up several million greenbacks. She reckons it was just about the worst thing that ever happened to her. Before the win, she was an average, middle-class Québécoise - she had a decent home, a husband, a job and lots of friends. She has none of those now. She quit her job of course - isn't that what all nouveau millionaires do, first thing? Next, she sold her dinky little house and bought a sprawling mansion more befitting to her millionaire status. Then the calls started coming in. Not just from, relatives and neighbours neighbours - from folks she'd barely barely met and often hadn't seen in decades. They all loved her dearly, of course. Had always admired her and delighted in her good fortune -- and wondered wondered if she could see her way clear to sharing a paltry few thousand from her huge winnings. winnings. She was besieged by hundreds of supplicants, all of whom adored her no end. Until she turned them down, and immediately became That was two years ago. All those houses are for sale now. The lottery winner and his family have moved to New Zealand. Why? Perhaps it was a result of that brand new Honda Accord being firebombed in his sister's driveway. More likely it was a decision reached after persons persons unknown poured gasoline gasoline all over, the porch of his brand new house and tried to set it alight. Who would do that -- and why? Who knows? A neigh- ■ hour says: "The attacks on the family are disgraceful. They are perfectly nice people. Someone must be jealous of their wealth." I feel for them both - the English and the Quebec lottery lottery winner. But to tell the truth, I also feel th,e teensiest bit smug. I know that I will never be in their shoes because I will never win a lottery. lottery. 1 don't but lottery tickets. One of the few truths I know about myself is that 1 definitely definitely lack the character to be an instant millionaire. Call me unimaginative, but T actually need the pressure of mortgage payments, hydro bills and the hulking shadow of an insatiable Revenue Canada to kèep me on the straight and narrow, Put a cheque for a million bucks in my hand and it would take about three nanoseconds to turn me into an instant libertine. libertine. Three thousand dollar hand-tailored-suits. A stretch limo - three stretch limos - in the driveway. Oh yeah. .I'd be phoning up Hafrods for takeout takeout fried hummingbird tongues with one hand and urinating on my boss's desk with the other. And of course I'd blow it all. And cheese off all my buddies and loved ones into the bargain. I'm not strong enough to survive a lottery win. Not like Gerald Swan. Mister Swan, of Orton, Ontario, ; recently won the Heart and Stroke Foundation jackpot - one million bucks. Hi si plans for the money? He's going to give it away. All of it. "I'm quite comfortable comfortable the way I am" he says. "I don't need it. I bought the ticket because it's a good cause. God gave me this gift; 1 should give it back." And he has. Gerald Swan has handed over the money to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Canadian Cancer Society and a camp for children with kidney disease. disease. Gerald Swan - a class act. He may not die with a lot of money in the bank, but I'm betting he dies with a smile on his face. MASARU KARATE CLUB CLASSES MONDAY, TUESDAY & THURSDAY EVENINGS FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT RICK JONES EMAIL: rick.teruko@sympatico.ca TELEPHONE: (90S) 786-2793 FAX: (905) 786-1031 ; Madame Rich Bitch - too good for her former peers. But she had other problems problems by now. The new money had caused her husband to blossom into a Wall Street junkie. He appropriated huge chunks of the lottery money and shoveled it into the stock market. He lost it all, and burned up what was left of the marriage marriage in the process. MORE Swiftly, weasel ratbag , lawyers sank their hollow fangs into the estate siphoning off what was left of her windfall. windfall. She lost the mansion and now lives in a tiny walkup, hoping that her book sells enough copies to pay the rent. Fier one piece of advice to any lottery winner? Leave home immediately for at least one year - no forwarding address. Winning the lottery can swiftly ' turn into a curse. A factory worker in Gateshead, England recently won more than $10 million in a lottery. He was very generous with his newfound'loot. He bought seven grand houses on the same street in Gateshead and gave them all to family members members So that they could all live next to one another. ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦ GOLF CLUB ♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ Comer of Taunton Rd. E. & Bethesda Rd., Bowmanville, Ontario • 263-2293 Father's Day Special ■ June / to 18 Daily after 12 noon - 2 People & Power Cart - $45 mx inc. 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