The Weirs – Dealing Nicely With The Complications Of Incredible Wealth

A week or so ago, papers were abuzz about how Colin and Christine Weir took just ten minutes to decide to buy a £3.5 million mansion set in 32 acres of grounds. 

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The Oscar Awards are so prized by actors, especially hopeful nominees, that losing on the chance to land one can be very painful.  Ellen De Generes, this year’s host at the academy awards, understands the pain of such a loss and has come up with an unusual way to assuage the hurt feelings of one of the losers.

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Dung, a man in Hamlet 5 of Nhi Thanh Commune in Vietnam has always been generous.  So generous that when a neighbor asked for help selling several lottery tickets with the ‘unlucky number’ 855 514, he decided to buy them all. 

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Elizabeth Stevens had been playing the lottery regularly, but could barely afford the tickets of late since her husband Tom was diagnosed with lung cancer.  Tom needed a regular supply of popsicles to soothe his throat which often felt dry. 

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Everyone knows that keeping a clean room has many benefits.  A Georgia man discovered that finding a winning lottery ticket can be one of those benefits.

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A retired farmer named Robert Power won a third of the $735,000 jackpot prize of the Show Me Cash lottery game.   His quick pick ticket matched all five of the numbers drawn on Feb.

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Last Thursday Scott Lowe of Rockland almost had one ticket too many.  After purchasing lottery tickets Home Spirits on Columbia Road in Hanover, he discovered a $50,000 win. 

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Premier Lotteries Ireland – a consortium involving An Post and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, owner of UK operator Camelot, has Signed a contract that will pay the government €405 million for the National Lottery. 

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A Scotch Plains woman won the fist of ten $1 million prizes on the New Jersey Lottery’s $150 Million Cash Spectacular instant game.  Sylvia  Vasquez uncovered the top prize in one of ten lottery tickets she bought from W’s Freshmart on Route 22 in East Union, last 11 February. 

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What happens when a man rejects a $10 million winning ticket?  In the case of Lancaster man Jerry Kajfas, he went back for the $20 Win for Life Spectacular ticket and promptly scratched his way to a $10,000 a week for life stipend.

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