Housewife wins Lotto
She walked away with the cheque this afternoon, but even up to the moment she collected, the latest winner of the Lotto jackpot could not believe her good luck. Around four this afternoon, Santa Elena housewife Clara Alicia Velasquez claimed Wednesday night’s jackpot of fifty-seven thousand, five hundred dollars. Velasquez says she has religiously bought the same numbers, which is a combination of her children’s age and her husband’s license plate number, for the last two years. And while she couldn’t believe she had won, Velasquez has definite plans for the money.
Clara Alicia Velasquez, $57,500 Lotto Winner
?I will share it with my sons, and put up the rest to let them finish their studies, and then I will give to my daughters, because I never expected to win it. Last night I gone to one of my friend?s house and I told her to put on the radio because I wanted to hear the Lotto. Then she get up and put it on, but I never had it with me, so when I reach home and I check it. I get surprised and then I tell my husband that I win the lotto, but I never expected that. I get so nervous I didn?t know what to do.?
After government deducted its income tax, Velasquez took home forty-eight thousand, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. Although she’s the fourth Lotto winner of the year, that doesn’t mean Velasquez will stop playing the game. She says she’ll be holding tickets for Saturday’s draw when the jackpot reverts to fifty thousand dollars.