Father of four says big lotto win means new house for his Mississauga family [Video]

Dave Kelly didn’t have to think for very long about what to do with the $100,000 that suddenly came his way in time for Christmas.

The Mississauga father of four held a Lotto 6/49 ticket in the Nov. 2 draw that turned out to be an Encore winner for him. The numbers on his ticket matched the last six of seven Encore-winning numbers in exact order, officials with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) said in a news release.

“All I could think about in that moment was how I would now be able to buy a house,” Kelly, who works in shipping and receiving, said while at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto to pick up his windfall.

“I was in the kitchen cooking when my children’s mother checked my Lotto 6/49 ticket on the OLG app,” the big winner continued, recounting the moment when he learned of …