Sixteen Share Tarpon Springs $7 Million FLORIDA LOTTO Jackpot Win!News Editors TALLAHASSEE Tallahassee (tăləhăs`ē), city (1990 pop. 124,773), state capital and seat of Leon co., NW Fla.; inc. 1825. Tallahassee is a wholesale trade and distribution center for the surrounding lumber, livestock, and agricultural area. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2003 "I still can't believe it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have real! I keep expecting to wake up!" -- LEON Leon Medieval kingdom, northwestern Spain. Leon proper included the cities of León, Salamanca, and Zamora—the adjacent areas of Vallodolid and Palencia being disputed with Castile, originally its eastern frontier. KOWALESKI, FLORIDA LOTTO Jackpot Winner The owner, 12 employees, two customers and one retiree who simply likes hanging around Duckworth Duckworth may be a surname or a company name. Surnames As a surname, Duckworth may refer to:
place, property - any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House" in Tarpon tarpon (tär`pŏn), common name for members of the family Elopidae, large herringlike game fish of the warm seas of the Western Hemisphere, ranging occasionally from Long Island to Brazil and to the west coast of Africa and entering freshwater Springs will split evenly the estimated $7 million FLORIDA LOTTO jackpot from the Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2003 drawing. Boatyard owner Ernest Duckworth, 60, and retired diesel mechanic Leon Kowaleski, 79, redeemed re·deem tr.v. re·deemed, re·deem·ing, re·deems 1. To recover ownership of by paying a specified sum. 2. To pay off (a promissory note, for example). 3. the sole winning ticket from that drawing at 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. Headquarters in Tallahassee today for all 16 winners. They could have received the estimated $7 million jackpot in 30 annual installments of approximately $233,333(a), but instead chose the one-time cash amount of $4,109,047.55 they will divide evenly. Each of the 16 will receive $258,815.43 of the prize. "That's just the right amount of money," Ernest said. "It's a lot of money, but not so much for anybody to quit working." While Ernest and Leon collected the prize for the group, the other boatyard workers -- pipe fitters, welders, electricians, painters and a secretary averaging about 40 years-of-age -- were on the job as usual. "I still can't believe it's real!" said Leon, who has organized the lottery pool at the boatyard for the last two and a half years. "I keep expecting to wake up!" The day before the drawing, Leon collected the usual $5 from each boatyard worker and also from two men bringing a boat in for repairs. Then he bought $80 worth of FLORIDA LOTTO tickets using the Lottery Quick Pick system. Leon purchased the tickets at the Sunoco service station, located at 940 N. Pinellas Avenue in Tarpon Springs. The store will receive a $10,000 retailer bonus for selling the winning LOTTO ticket. The winning numbers for the Jan. 15, 2003 drawing are: 11 - 16 - 23 - 37 - 38 - 43. "A lot of the guys did not want to believe we won at first," Leon said. "They just kept walking away when I tried to tell them. They apologized for that later when they found out it was true. "I still can't visualize it myself," added Leon, who checked the tickets about 6:30 a.m. on the morning after the drawing. "The first numbers were my birth numbers and we had them. The last number I checked was 43, and I looked back at our ticket and there it was -- 43 -- sitting right there!" Leon said after he found out their ticket was a winner, he had a guard watch the ticket full time. He hid it underneath the paper lining his bird's cage. The two men said they would use their winnings to pay bills and give financial help to their children and other family members. The winners are the 55th FLORIDA LOTTO winners either to reside in, or to purchase a winning ticket in, Pinellas County and the 710th LOTTO winner to win more than $1 million since 1988. The Jackpot for tomorrow's (Wednesday) FLORIDA LOTTO drawing is estimated at $7 million. The drawing will be broadcast live statewide on 13 TV stations at 11 p.m. EST P.M. also p.m. or p.m. abbr. post meridiem Usage Note: By definition, 12 a.m. . (a) Prize estimate based on current interest rates on day of prize claim. Please Play Responsibly "$12 Billion for Florida's Schools" |
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