they won canada's atlantic lottery receiving a check for over 11 million canada dollars. >> we're country hicks and we're not going to -- we're not travelers so why keep the money and give it to the government? >> reporter: instead, they gave it to others. almost all of it went to more than 60 public organizations. huge donations to places such as hospitals and fire stations. >> we hadn't bought one thing. that's it because there's nothing that we need. >> reporter: gloria mckenzie won a huge powerball jackpot in 2013 at the age of 84 after moving from maine to florida. she cleared $278 million after taxes. and did not forget her hometown of maine. she donated $1.8 million to the local high school that was likely to be closed because of a leaking roof. >> without that, the school was going to die. it was not going to have a