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A Lucky Streak for Lottery Players from Gardena.


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SACRAMENTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2000

The city of Gardena has had two top prize winners in the last week in games other than SuperLotto.

Lottery lottery, scheme for distributing prizes by lot or other method of chance selection to persons who have paid for the opportunity to win. The term is not applicable when lots are drawn without payment by the interested parties to determine some matter, e.g.  officials announced January 29, 2000, the Big Spin(R) 2000 show's first grand prize winner of the Extravaganza ex·trav·a·gan·za  
n.
1. An elaborate, spectacular entertainment or display: "Washington is an extravaganza of great buildings, greenery, and monuments" Larry Griffin.
 2000 game is Calvin Duncan Calvin L. Duncan (1925/1926-July 29, 2006) was the first black police captain in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Duncan was born in Greenville, North Carolina. He graduated from J. P. McCaskey High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
. Duncan will receive $2,000 a week for the next twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights.
     2.
, totaling more than $2 million (before taxes).

&uot;My brother came over late Saturday night to tell me people were calling him because they saw my name on TV,&uot; explained Duncan. &uot;And then when I got to work today, people were coming out of the woodwork woodwork: see carpentry; furniture; intarsia; marquetry; veneer; wood carving.  to shake my hand but I didn't completely believe it until I got to the Lottery's office, now I believe it.&uot;

Duncan will receive a check for $2,000 (before taxes) a week for the next twenty years, his after tax amount will be about $1,400 a week. Duncan plans on retiring from Honeywell where he has been an airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air.  planner for more than twenty years with his prize.

The California Lottery's Daily Derby was also recently won with a ticket bought in Gardena. On January 24, 2000, a ticket bought at Gene's Liquors in Gardena won the Daily Derby grand prize of $812,813. That ticket has yet to be claimed.

Since the California Lottery began in 1985, the Lottery has contributed $11 billion to California's public schools. Scratchers can be bought at approximately 19,000 retail business establishments around the state.
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