You can’t get anything done without the means to do it

Lawrence Brisbois was relaxing at home when the telephone rang. “I was with my sweetheart Jen, and my cousin Claude. We were having a cocktail after a long day at work and when they told me I was the 50/50 Jackpot Winner, I was skeptical. It took about five minutes of back and forth, fact checking and asking questions, to see if it was a crank call!” 

When the facts added up to Lawrence being a millionaire, the first thing he asked himself was, “Can I fully retire?” And that’s exactly what he did: “We’re going to buy a house and invest the rest of it so we don’t spend it all – because (smiling) I do want to STAY retired.” 

As someone whose older sister had open heart surgery as a youngster, and a younger sister who recently had a heart attack, Lawrence is a long-time Heart & Stroke supporter: “Research is very important – you can’t get anything done if you don’t have the means to do it – and the means to do it is for people to donate.”