Lotto Max winners Donna and Ed Ruth $1M richer

New millionaires Ed and Donna Ruth had a group of people in stitches ata small convenience storeon the west coast of Newfoundland,as they accepted their $1-million lottery winnings.

"I popped into the store to get a sixpack like I would," Ed Ruth said."Home all alone, [I] come down to get me six pack, get me ticket scanned major winner! And I said I got more than twenty bucks."

He picked up the winning Lotto Max ticket at Brent's Convenience in their hometown ofSummerside last Tuesday.

The couple had everyone in convenience store laughing, as Donna Ruth reenacted the phone call shereceived from her husband.

"'Donna, you come home! You come home right now,'"Donna Ruth said her husband told her over the phone when he got the news. "And I said that's not Ed, right? I definitely thought there was something wrong with the kids. I started to cry."

I definitely thought there was something wrong with the kids. I started to cry.- Donna Ruth

"I said, 'Ed what's wrong?' [He said]I won a million dollars!"

The couple, who have been married for 36 years,made the quick decision to retire; Ed Ruthworked at a home building supply store and, while his wifewas ahome care worker.

That means no more alarm clocks for the two.

"I'm gonna beat the sucker up, which I wanted to do for years," Donna Ruth laughed.

The coupleplans to usethe money fortravel, to see a few hockey games, and treat their family.

But first"I'm going to get my six pack and ticket before I goes home," Ed Ruth said.

On Saturday, the Atlantic Lottery Corporation announced that someone in Newfoundland and Labrador had won the million-dollar Jan.16 draw.

One $1-million prize was split between two winners from British Columbia and Ontario.The Ed Ruth's ticket won the second million dollar prize one the couplegot to keep all tothemselves.

The convenience store will receivea one per cent sellers prize for selling the winning ticket.