This week on the California Lottery’s Big Spin
show, three contestants won a total of $180,000. The show aired
statewide Saturday, May 3, 2008. The grand total won was $202,500!
Jennifer Castro’s family is very
important to her. That’s why this San Bruno
Fantasy 5 Dream Machine contestant plans on taking her family on
vacation with the $80,000 prize she won. “At
first I was going to take my family on a short vacation, possibly to Las
Vegas,” Castro explained after her win. “But
now, because of the amount of money I won, we can go on a real vacation,
a longer one, farther away.”
Michelle Valle, a human resources recruiter from Santa Ana, was
the contestant who outplayed nine other contestants in Aces High.
Valle won $60,000 and plans to save some of her prize money for a down
payment on a home and to travel.
Arnulfo Valdes Romero, a welder from Palmdale, uncovered “Spin-Spin-Spin”
on his Scratchers® ticket sending him
straight to the Big Spin wheel. There, he won $40,000, which he plans to
use to expand his business and possibly pay off his house.
Winners Summary
NAME
CITY
AMOUNT
Jennifer Castro
San Bruno
$80,000
Michelle Valle
Santa Ana
$60,000
Arnulfo Valdes Romero
Palmdale
$40,000
Carmen Hernandez
Oxnard
$5,000
Linda Cessor
Hawthorne
$4,000
Thomas Johnson
Long Beach
$2,500
Joseph Auteri
Sebastopol
$2,000
John Gonzales
Sacramento
$2,000
Victor Almaguer
Newark
$1,750
Keith Marshall
Chino Hills
$1,750
Josue Ramirez
Norwalk
$1,750
Robert Ortega
Oxnard
$1,750
TOTAL
$202,500
For high resolution copies of photos of Jennifer Castro, Michelle Valle
or Arnulfo Valdes Romero please contact (916) 324-9639 or e-mail
newsroom@calottery.com.
More than 95 cents of every Lottery dollar is returned to the community
in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retail
commissions. The California Lottery contributes at least 34 cents of
every dollar that players spend on Lottery products to public education
and returns more than 50 percent of sales to players in the form of
prizes. Since its inception in 1985, the Lottery has contributed more
than $20 billion to California schools out of total sales of nearly $55
billion. Retailers benefit too, earning $3.5 billion in compensation
since 1985.
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