Ten Retired Recreational Golfers Claim Share of Estimated $85 Million Lotto Jackpot!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)--Sept. 13, 2002 "I thought I was going to pass out!" -- Dennis Dennis is a male first name derived from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius meaning "servant of Dionysus", the Thracian god of wine, which is ultimately derived from the Greek Dios (Διος, "of Zeus") combined with Nysos or Nysa (Νυσα), where the Phillipps FLORIDA LOTTO Jackpot winner A group of ten retired recreational golfers The list of golfers has been split into two articles:
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 fourth of seven winning FLORIDA LOTTO tickets to claim their share of the estimated $85 million jackpot from the Saturday, Sept. 7, 2002 LOTTO drawing. Higher-than-expected sales pushed the jackpot to $87.8 million, third highest in Florida Lottery The Florida Lottery is one of the most lucrative single-state lottery systems in the United States with numerous On-line and Scratch-Off games offering players a wide variety of prize levels. The minimum age to purchase a Florida Lottery ticket, regardless of game, is 18. history. The winners are all between the ages of 62 and 79, and all are retirees from other states who now live in Dunnellon. They arrived 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 in a charted bus with their wives. They claimed their prize under the name of the Rainbow Hackers Trust, named after the Rainbow Springs Golf and Country Club in Dunnellon where they play golf every Monday and Wednesday. They said their ages was the obvious reason they did not choose to receive their prize in 30 annual installments of approximately $418,142 per year. (a) Instead they chose a one-time cash payment of $6,852,930.76. The Rainbow Hackers Trust members are Richard Williams, George Radin, Robert Petkanics, James Schulz, Charles Schulz, Charles (born Nov. 26, 1922, Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.—died Feb. 12, 2000, Santa Rosa, Calif.) U.S. cartoonist. Son of a Minneapolis barber, he took a correspondence course in cartooning and worked as a freelance cartoonist before creating Peanuts (originally Bernhard, James Hicklin, Edward Duggins, Edwin Richfield, Charles Eberlin, and Dennis Phillipps. "I woke up and turned on the computer Sunday morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
The winning numbers the group selected for the Sept. 7, 2002, drawing are: 10 - 16 - 22 - 29 - 36 - 41. Dennis bought their winning ticket at the Sprint Food Store, located at 3873 SW College Road in Ocala. The store will receive one-seventh of a $10,000 bonus from the Florida Lottery for selling a winning LOTTO jackpot ticket. Ed Richfield, an engineer before retirement, said he had selected the winning numbers years before based on the frequency they had appeared previously. The group has played the numbers Ed selected for about the last four years. Dennis said the group was a close-knit group of golfers who regularly meet and play at the Rainbow golf course, but participation in the lottery pool is on a first-come basis. Ten people contributed $2 each to buy twenty tickets for the Wednesday drawing and again for the Saturday drawing. "I got the call from Dennis early, but it was a good way to wake up," said James Schulz. "I thought he was kidding, but he said, `We really hit it!'" "It was the luck of the draw," said first-time group member Charles Bernhard. "It was just luck who was in the group on any particular day. This was the first time I got a ticket!" George Radin said there is "a little sensitivity about that but we don't want to talk about that now." George said he wants to buy a golf cart with some of his winnings, and Ed Duggin said he was going to replace his 31-year-old golf clubs. One other group member spoke of taking a cruise, but none of the others spoke of any special plans for the money. The group is the 15th LOTTO winner to either reside in, or purchase a winning ticket in, Marion County Marion County is the name of seventeen counties in the United States of America, mostly named for General Francis Marion:
The drawing for the next LOTTO jackpot is Saturday for an estimated $6 million! The drawing will be broadcast live on 15 TV stations statewide at 11:00 pm EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT . Please Play Responsibly "$12 Billion for Florida's Schools" (a) Prize estimate based on current interest rates on day of prize claim. |
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