ADVISORY/Lottery Win Truly a 'Family Affair' for Pittsburgh Man.Assignment/News Editors ADVISORY...for Friday (Jan. 5) MIDDLETOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2001 A Mt. Lebanon resident starts off the New Year receiving a cash windfall. Ronald E. Michaels, 60, of Allegheny County was the winner of the November 23, 2000, CASH 5 game jackpot. Mr. Michaels will receive his Lottery check for $572,720.50 - less 28 percent federal withholding - during a formal presentation at 10 a.m. Friday, January 5, 2001, at the Cochran A - Plus, located on 1630 Cochran Road, Pittsburgh, where he purchased the winning ticket. Presenting Ronald his CASH 5 winnings check will be the Lottery's Director of Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Sally Danyluk, Pittsburgh Area Supervisor Eric Grubbs and District Lottery Representative Terri Hopkins. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Ronald, he plays CASH 5 when it reaches $500,000. Ronald always uses preselected numbers consisting of his family's birthdates. He recalls, "I was on my way to play racquetball racquetball, sport played indoors by two or four players, combining elements of court handball and such racket games as squash racquets. It is played on a standard handball court 40 ft (12.2 m) long, 20 ft (6. and I drove right past Cochran's A - Plus, so, I turned around and played my numbers before my match." Mr. Michaels admits he plays racquetball faithfully, four times a week. Playing the Lottery collectively with his family has been a tradition for many years. His wife Michele's family visits them from out-of-town about once a month. Ronald says he enjoys playing with his in-laws. "We figure out which numbers we want to use, cross our fingers and play the Lottery," he says. Ronald and Michele hosted Thanksgiving dinner The centerpiece of contemporary Thanksgiving in the United States is a large meal, starring a large roasted turkey. All of the dishes in the traditional American version of Thanksgiving Dinner are made from foods native to North America, according to tradition the Pilgrims received these and as always, their in-laws huddled together to watch the live Lottery drawing. It wasn't until their family departed that Ronald went upstairs to check his CASH 5 ticket for the Thanksgiving Day drawing. "I compared my numbers on the ticket to the five winning numbers I wrote down," he remembers. "I yelled to Michele, `Look at this!' and she asked me what that meant. I told her we won a share of the CASH 5 jackpot." It turns out that Mr. Michaels held the only winning jackpot ticket for the November 23, 2000, drawing. As for his Lottery winnings, Mr. Michaels and his wife will build a new home and plan to share the wealth with their five children and five grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. . Ronald is retired from the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. and currently works for a packaging company, Mitchell & Western, as a sales representative. CASH 5 drawings take place every night at 7 p.m. Tickets are $1 per play and may be purchased up to seven days in advance. To play CASH 5, players select five numbers from 1 to 39. Players must match all five winning numbers drawn to win the top prize, which starts at $100,000 and rolls in increments of $100,000 minimum. The Pennsylvania Lottery The Pennsylvania Lottery is the state lottery of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It was created by the Pennsylvania Legislature on August 26, 1971 and that October, Henry Kaplan was appointed as its first Executive Director. The Lottery premiered on March 7, 1972. also pays players for matching four-, three- and two-of-five winning CASH 5 numbers. The Pennsylvania Lottery remains the only state lottery A game of chance operated by a state government. Generally a lottery offers a person the chance to win a prize in exchange for something of lesser value. Most lotteries offer a large cash prize, and the chance to win the cash prize is typically available for one dollar. that exclusively targets its proceeds to benefit older citizens. Since its inception nearly 29 years ago, the Lottery has provided $11.6 billion in program benefits that have expanded to support property tax and rent rebates, free and reduced-fare transit for older Pennsylvanians, a co-pay prescription drug prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug, program (PACE and PACENET) and the 52 Area Agencies on Aging, including 650 full- and part-time senior centers, located throughout the Commonwealth. Players must be 18 years of age or older. |
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