SACRAMENTO – House-keeper Alicia Rodriguez is the newest big-money winner at the California Lottery. The Bodega Bay woman said she plans to help her parents, travel and have a very merry Christmas with her winnings.
Her winning Stars & Stripes Scratchers ticket was purchased at the Rotten Robbie in Sebastopol and is worth $100,000.
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 nearly $21 billion to California schools out of total sales of more than $56 billion. Retailers benefit too, earning $3.6 billion in compensation since 1985.