Regina Aguirre: $25,000 Replay Winner - 12/09/10

The Lottery's 25th anniversary celebration continued with the awarding of a $25,000 prize to a lucky player who entered her non-winning ticket in the Replay program, which gives players a second chance to win cash and prizes.

Regina Aguirre, a self-employed bookkeeper, was surprised by Lottery officials to find out how much she had won. Upon hearing she was the winner of a $25,000 prize, Aguirre said: "My mom says my face turned totally red, I thought I had won maybe $1,000. People really do win the Lottery. I'm proof of that!"

She said she plans to use the money on a family vacation this summer to the Caribbean and she also plans to take a trip to San Francisco with her new husband.

Aguirre celebrated her win at an event at the CVS Pharmacy, in Northridge where she had purchased her lucky ticket. She says she goes there regularly because the store is "clean and the Lottery vending machine is always working. It's a really good retailer." CVS Pharmacy is one of the 21,000 retailers that carry Lottery products throughout the state.

Aguirre becomes the latest winner created by the California Lottery during its 25 years of making dreams come true for its players, helping local businesses create jobs, and contributing billions of dollars to California schools.

Aguirre is one of nearly 800,000 regular users of the Lottery's Replay program. Under the program, Scratchers players with non-winning tickets can go to www.calottery.com/replay to enter their serial numbers for a second chance to win.

Since the Lottery began in 1985, it has contributed $23 billions to education, given out $32 billion in prizes and $4 billion to retailers. More than 94 cents of every dollar spent by Lottery players goes back to communities in the form of prizes, aid to education and retail compensation. Since 2000, Lottery players have contributed $1 billion to public schools each year.Regina

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• California
• Lottery
• Scratchers
• Replay
• Regina
• Aguirre
• CVS
• Northridge

[PyR0Star]

im entering hundereds of tickets right now, wish me luck!!!!! I work at a liqour store, and go collecting non winners at other liqour stores around town. It's best if you sort them out by game number, some same games have different game numbers, but copy n paste, then enter the ticket. So I save all sorts of tickets, sort them, scratch off the numbers, then let my data entry skills go to work!!!! I fly at entering 10key, my talent at computers wasted working at a liqour store.... xx0x0x0

[Domosuke]

I used to work with her at Tj maxx. Cool lady.