Three co-workers from the Niagara area have won the lottery together.

Ronald Laverdiere of Niagara Falls, Ginesse Danis Nadeau of St. Catharines and Mila Sefic of Niagara Falls won an Encore prize of $100,000 in the Sept. 12 Lotto Max draw. Encore can be played in conjunction with lottery games for an extra $1.

The trio has been playing together for six years, and it was Laverdiere who discovered their win.

“I started dancing around,” he said in an Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. news release. “I shared the news with Mila first, still dancing with excitement.”

“I was so shocked and felt numb,” Sefic said.

Danis Nadeau had a hard time believing when Sefic told her because Sefic is a prankster.

“It still hasn’t really hit me,” Danis Nadeau said.

Laverdiere said he plans to pay some b

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