Gimme 5 big winner hails from Belmopan
As Channel 5’s annual birthday celebration counted down to a climax on Friday night, the prize patrol was cruising the city just waiting for directions to the lucky caller’s house. But as it turned out, the grand prize winner lived too far away. Denese Welch of Belmopan won a pair of round trip tickets to Dallas on American Airlines, plus five hundred dollars cash from Channel 5. Here’s the replay of the winning call and the prize presentation, which occurred just a short while ago in our studios.
Caller
“Gimme 5!”
Neil Hall, Host
“Congratulations! Denese, how are you?”
Dense Welch, Gimme 5 Grand Prize Winner
“Fine.”
Neil Hall
“Only fine?”
Dense Welch
“Fine, fine.”
Neil Hall
“If you’re fine, fine for the two tickets, how are you for the hotel accommodations?”
Dense Welch
“Fine too.”
Neil Hall
“And how about the five hundred dollars?”
Denese Welch
“I feel excited, this is the first time I won something from Gimme 5.”
Janelle Chanona
“How long have you been playing the game?”
Denese Welch
“For eleven years, and this is my first time, so I feel good.”
Janelle Chanona
“What were you doing when you got the call?”
Denese Welch
“I was sitting in the couch falling asleep. So it woke me up.”
Janelle Chanona
“You have any plan when you’ll take your trip or how you’ll spend your money?”
Denese Welch
“The money I will give to my mother, because she is the one that answered the phone. And the trip, I’ll think about that; sometime next year, if God spare life.”
Channel 5 would like to thank all those viewers who brought in coupons, the newspapers who printed them, and especially those generous sponsors who provided the great prizes.
