Good Person of the Week: Shop Owner Returns $1Million Lottery Ticket Owner Discarded

Imagine buying a lottery ticket and thinking it wasn't a winner (but it is), and turning it into a store for a second chance drawing (for those you have to write your name, phone and address on the back. Well, that's what happened in Massachusetts recently, and the shop owner discovered it, and notified the woman. One thing that troubled me about this story is that there are absolutely NO photos on the Internet of the heroes who own the shop!  Only the lottery winner. The shop owners are from India and need to have their photos on-line! They are heroes!  - That aside, here's the great story. 

Caption:  The Lucky Spot in Southwick, Massachusetts was lucky for Lea Rose Fiega - because the shop owners were so wonderful. 

by: Jillian Andrews, Nexstar Media Wire

Massachusetts family returns winning $1M lottery ticket to customer who threw it away May 23, 2021 / 06:05 PM EDT Fox 59 TV

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – One Massachusetts family returned a lottery ticket to the customer who had tossed it after the family discovered the ticket had won $1 million.

Abhi Shah, the son of the owner of Lucky Spot, where the ticket was sold, said his mother, Aruna Shah, sold the winning ticket to one of their regular customers. The ticket sat discarded in the store for 10 days after the customer assumed it wasn’t worth anything and handed it back to be tossed out for the second-chance drawing.

“One evening, I was going through the tickets from the trash and [noticed] that she didn’t scratch the number,” Abhi Shah said. “I scratched the number and it was $1 million underneath the ticket.”

$1.5B Mega Millions winner finally comes forward The Shahs said it wasn’t an easy decision to return the ticket.

“We didn’t sleep two nights,” said Maunish Shah, owner of Lucky Spot. “He called my mom, grandparents in India, they said, ‘Give it back, we don’t want that money.’”

The family then decided to return the ticket. Since the customer, Lea Rose Fiega, visited the store often, they knew where to find her.

“As soon as she came in, I hand her the $1 million ticket, and she freaked out and cried like a baby,” said Maunish Shah. “She sat down on the floor right here.”

The Lucky Spot, proving to be a lucky spot, is also home to some very kind people.

Lea Rose Fiega, the Massachusetts woman who almost threw away a winning lottery ticket.Massachusetts State Lottery

Heroes of the Month: Animal Rescuers - Our Friends Dianne & One Eagle

 Our friends Dianne and One Eagle work with animal rescues in Florida, and they spend countless

3 of the 24 dogs in deplorable conditions

 hours helping homeless pets.
  On New Year's Eve, Dianne told me she was involved in a huge backyard rescue operation. Here's the story from Dianne:

I ended up helping to get 24 dogs out of a backyard breeder situation eight of which turned out to be pregnant two were blind all are in rescue! Really bad conditions basically standing in sewage... that’s what I did for New Year’s Eve.  Some dogs are pregnant and  two are blind and a local rescue took some and a rescue from Virginia drove all the way down to get the rest. Kudos to these rescues for helping to put these poor dogs in foster homes.

DIANNE TALKED THE COUPLE INTO RELEASING THE DOGS TO A RESCUE:
Dianne said:  I was able to talk her into giving them up and so in their best interest we got them all which is a miracle.   I still can’t believe that we talked her into letting them all go every single one. But this is how our pet stores get their dogs and this is how some people make a living

transport list

The rescued dogs being cleaned up

Dienne and One Eagle

CONTACTING THE RESCUES: Dianne and was instrumental in contacting the rescues and notifying them of the grave situation. An elderly couple were "backyard breeders" and fell ill, and couldn't take care of the 24 dogs in their care. These dog were living in filth. Walking around in feces, under fed.


For Donations-Safe Animal Shelter +1 (904) 375-9122 
Thanks to Hulks Helping Hands for driving down from Virginia!

DIANNE'S NOTE TO ALL Now they will have to be taught to be housebroken how to play with toys how to walk on a leash and not to be afraid...
 If you are a rescuer please never give up🙏🌹
Thank you God, best Christmas ever ❤️🐾🙏

ABOUT DIANNE:  

Ordained Minister/Wedding Officiant at Spiritlight Ministry Weddings, Animal activist and care worker at Spiritlight Animal Rescue and FOUNDER and PSYCHIC MEDIUM at Spiritlight

Contact: http://www.diannespiritlight.com