SACRAMENTO – What better way to start off the beginning of spring than to be a contestant on The Big Spin! This week’s players won a total of $172,500 on the show, which aired statewide Saturday, March 24, 2007.
What happens when you uncover a SPIN-SPIN-SPIN? You go straight to the wheel on The Big Spin show! That’s what happened to Jacqueline Roberts, a U.S. Postal Inspector from Richmond. She has big plans for her $75,000 win. “I’m going to put a down payment on my dream home, start a college fund for my grandchildren and buy a new Acura,” said Roberts.
Ramon Lopez-Jurado works for the U.S. Department of Labor in San Francisco. He played the Fantasy 5 Dream Machine game and won $50,000! He would like to finish putting his son through college. “My wife and I would like to travel through Central and South America,” said Jurado. That sounds like quite the adventure.
Albert Rios of Los Angeles outplayed nine other contestants in Aces High and won $25,000 after spinning The Big Spin wheel! A retiree who formerly worked in the Aerospace industry, he’s not sure what he’s going to do with his money. All Rios knows for sure is that he plans to “Do something fun!”
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| Jacqueline Roberts |
Richmond |
$75,000 |
| Ramon Lopez-Jurado |
San Francisco |
$50,000 |
| Albert Rios |
Los Angeles |
$25,000 |
| Joyce Moore |
San Diego |
$5,000 |
| Francisco Mendoza |
Santa Ana |
$4,000 |
| Jonathan Aguila |
San Francisco |
$2,500 |
| Karen Panameno |
Los Angeles |
$2,000 |
| De Qiao Yang |
El Monte |
$2,000 |
| Thomas Sellers |
Eureka |
$1,750 |
| Amanuel Keleta |
San Jose |
$1,750 |
| Samuel Caldwell |
Fresno |
$1,750 |
| Barkev Rostomian |
Glendale |
$1,750 |
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TOTAL |
$172,500 |
Public education in California receives at least 34 cents of every dollar players spend on Lottery products. The California Lottery contributed a record $1.28 billion to public education in 2005-06 out of historic sales of $3.58 billion, the sixth year in a row the Lottery has provided more than $1 billion in supplemental funding for education. Since the Lottery began in 1985, it has contributed more than $18 billion to California schools.