{"id":886,"date":"2021-02-11T12:57:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/news\/?p=886"},"modified":"2023-11-06T09:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:13:45","slug":"4-million-lottery-winner-has-no-plans-to-move-out-of-retirement-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/news\/4-million-lottery-winner-has-no-plans-to-move-out-of-retirement-home\/","title":{"rendered":"$4 million lottery winner has no plans to move out of retirement home"},"content":{"rendered":"

A B.C. senior who won a $4.2 million jackpot after an impromptu trip to the grocery store said she \u201cwouldn\u2019t dream of moving out\u201d of her retirement home.<\/p>\n

Eileen Bevis, a resident at Chartwell Langley Gardens, said that despite her newfound riches, the seniors\u2019 residence is her home and she is happy there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would I move? I love Langley Gardens and I love Chartwell,\u201d Bevis said. \u201cEven during the pandemic, I am never alone. I have made some close friends here and I say hello to everyone. That is the way it should be. We are a close group, like family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bevis said she plans to invest most of her winnings, as well as donate to several charities.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust today I\u2019ve donated $45,000\u2026I\u2019m working on the list still,\u201d Bevis told\u00a0CTV News Vancouver<\/a>. She has already donated to the Langley Seniors Centre, the Food Bank, Cancer Research and an animal protection society.<\/p>\n

Bevis is a \u201cbig giver,\u201d says her friend of 20 years, Bev Atchison.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s always wanted to help people. She\u2019s a driver at the seniors centre, she goes and drives people to their appointments and things,\u201d Atchison said to CTV News Vancouver. \u201cShe\u2019s got a heart of gold and she\u2019s always been a giver.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Bevis will not be leaving Chartwell Langley Gardens, she will be moving into the home\u2019s penthouse suite.<\/p>\n

\u201c(I) Can\u2019t go on a world tour because of the travel restrictions and right now that doesn\u2019t bother me at all,\u201d she said. \u201cIf I can go eventually that would be great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A B.C. senior who won a $4.2 million jackpot after an impromptu trip to the grocery store said she \u201cwouldn\u2019t dream of moving out\u201d of her retirement home. Eileen Bevis, a resident at Chartwell Langley Gardens, said that despite her newfound riches, the seniors\u2019 residence is her home and she is happy there. \u201cWhy would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,205],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/5353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/route65.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}