SACRAMENTO – On The Big Spin show this week two contestants won a combined total of $90,000 spinning the big wheel. The show aired statewide Saturday, June 9, 2007. This week a total of $112,500 was won by Big Spin contestants!
Dorathea “Dee” Lorenzetti from Manhattan Beach calls herself a “volunteer extraordinaire.” She volunteers her time coaching tennis, making sandwiches for the homeless and doing anything she possibly can to help out. Her first Big Spin Scratchers 
ticket was a Christmas gift. After winning a second ticket, this time Lorenzetti revealed three “SPIN” symbols and won a direct trip to the big prize wheel. Lorenzetti would like to use her $50,000 win to support a new office for the Southern California Alumni of Bradley University.
Marcia King, of Irvine, is $40,000 richer after outplaying nine other contestants on Aces High giving her the chance to spin the Big Spin wheel. King, a flight attendant, knew exactly what she would do with her big win, “I’m going to treat all my friends to a spa treatment!” She also would like to donate to her favorite charity, “Seeing Dog Eye Foundation,” and help out her niece and nephew. Seems like everybody’s a winner!
| Dorathea Lorenzetti |
Manhattan Beach |
$50,000 |
| Marcia King |
Irvine |
$40,000 |
| Brenda Oliver |
Modesto |
$5,000 |
| Raymond Blewett |
Stockton |
$4,000 |
| Felipe Muñoz |
San Fernando |
$2,500 |
| Baudelia Nery |
North Hills |
$2,000 |
| Lynn Minthorne |
Pomona |
$2,000 |
| Mahvash Famini |
Santa Monica |
$1,750 |
| Sandy Zukowski |
Clayton |
$1,750 |
| Elena Alvarez |
Bakersfield |
$1,750 |
| Barinder Boparai |
Elk Grove |
$1,750 |
| |
TOTAL |
$112,500 |
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.