Butcher Carves Up Lotto Jackpot

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Butcher carves up lotto jackpot

By JOE WARMINGTON

The Toronto Sun



The guy known in Toronto's Portuguese community simply as Joe is not only the richest butcher in Canada -- he may also be the most generous.
Just one day after cashing a lottery win cheque for $14,571,490.70, Jose Lima says he will be at the Portuguese-Canadian butcher shop he manages to hand out $5,000 cheques to his employees this morning.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/03/28/5129051-sun.html

Nice. I bet those employees will be smiling today. And Joe will have the biggest smile of all.
 
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The name made me think of Rose de Lima, a saint who, like most saints, was renowned for charity.

Mind you, she was also renowned for wearing a metal crown of thorns and wrapping chains around her waist, for 14 years martyring her body. But, hey, it was the charity part that made me think of it. lol.
 
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The article says Lima is a strong Catholic and comes from a poor family from the Azores. I worked with some people from the Azores in the early '80's, a warm and giving group of people, very humble character about them. He also bought his ticket from the 'Lucky Variety Store'...haha....
 
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