Many Winners Highlight this Week’s “Make Me a Millionaire”

03.14.2009
Many Winners Highlight this Week’s “Make Me a Millionaire”

SACRAMENTO - The California Lottery's TV game show, "Make Me a Millionaire," awarded more than $173,500 in cash and prizes to 12 contestants this week.

Contestant Bacilia Hernandez topped all winners by taking home $50,000 in the Millionaire game. Hernandez, who hails from Seal Point, is an artist in a variety of mediums and is currently writing a romance novel. She stated that the money

won on the show would be extremely helpful in finishing her book.

Other big winners included Wallace Kitauchi, a sales clerk from Visalia, who won $34,000 playing Safe Cracker, and Harold Burrow and Creola Walker, who each won a new car playing Lucky Penny. Walker, who works for a transportation company in Oakland, was quick to point out that she “loved the new show” and promised that she would soon return. And Burrow, coincidentally enough, had stated before the show that his hope was to buy a new car for his wife.

Here is a list of some of this week’s top winners:

Name	Game	City	Amount
Bacilia Hernandez	Millionaire	Seal Point	$50,000
Wallace Kitauchi	Safe Cracker	Visalia	$34,000
Harold Burrow	Lucky Penny	Sacramento	NEW CAR
Creola Walker	Lucky Penny	Oakland	NEW CAR

For more information about the new show, visit www.calottery.com. For high resolution photos, 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 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.

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