NewsWhore
12-29-2008, 05:10 PM
As of yesterday, two of the three winners of the RD$64 million Loto draw have not been identified, but in Santiago a motoconcho driver is one of the new millionaires.
Luis Manuel Franco, 43, says that his dream is to finish the construction of his mother, Celeste Nunez's house in El Caimito Abajo, and this will become a reality sooner that was hoped for, since part of his winnings will go towards finishing that project.
In the wooden house with a tin roof where he lives with his wife and his four children, neighbors and relatives all joined in the celebration.
Luis Manuel, better known as "Choco", bought the winning number at the Mi Campo supermarket in Punal and together with two other winners will split the RD$64 million peso prize.
In Santo Domingo, meanwhile, along the main streets of the neighborhoods where the pharmacies that sold the other two tickets are located the only thing people talked about was the Loto.
This is the first time that three people share the big prize that went to the holders with the numbers 06,07,09, 21,24,and 29. Each will receive 2RD$21,333,333 (minus taxes, of course.)
In Santo Domingo, the tickets were sold in Consuelo Grisel II pharmacy in San Luis, and in Super Farmacia Jearel in Los Rios.
Interviewed by El Caribe, Franco, who, besides playing the Loto, drives a motoconcho, told reporters that he played about RD$3,000 in Loto tickets, some of which he played for other people.
Last June Franco lost the job he had in a company where he had worked for six-and-a-half years, but he bought the motorcycle with the money from his compensation, in order to support his family of four children, three of whom still live at home.
When he was asked what he was going to do with the money, he told reporters that he was going to "think very hard and calmly together with my family in order to decide where I will invest."
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Luis Manuel Franco, 43, says that his dream is to finish the construction of his mother, Celeste Nunez's house in El Caimito Abajo, and this will become a reality sooner that was hoped for, since part of his winnings will go towards finishing that project.
In the wooden house with a tin roof where he lives with his wife and his four children, neighbors and relatives all joined in the celebration.
Luis Manuel, better known as "Choco", bought the winning number at the Mi Campo supermarket in Punal and together with two other winners will split the RD$64 million peso prize.
In Santo Domingo, meanwhile, along the main streets of the neighborhoods where the pharmacies that sold the other two tickets are located the only thing people talked about was the Loto.
This is the first time that three people share the big prize that went to the holders with the numbers 06,07,09, 21,24,and 29. Each will receive 2RD$21,333,333 (minus taxes, of course.)
In Santo Domingo, the tickets were sold in Consuelo Grisel II pharmacy in San Luis, and in Super Farmacia Jearel in Los Rios.
Interviewed by El Caribe, Franco, who, besides playing the Loto, drives a motoconcho, told reporters that he played about RD$3,000 in Loto tickets, some of which he played for other people.
Last June Franco lost the job he had in a company where he had worked for six-and-a-half years, but he bought the motorcycle with the money from his compensation, in order to support his family of four children, three of whom still live at home.
When he was asked what he was going to do with the money, he told reporters that he was going to "think very hard and calmly together with my family in order to decide where I will invest."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)