Lottery winners still buying tickets - and winning
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) - Winners of a $9.7 million Virginia Lotto jackpot 11 years ago, Clyde and Edith Shinault could afford to spend $60 a week on lottery tickets. Now they can afford to spend more.
The Shinaults, who won a big jackpot in 1991, bought a scratch ticket last week that will provide them $1,000 a week for life.
"They are the largest two-time winners in the history of the Virginia Lottery," said Lottery Director Penelope Kyle.
"When she said 'whoopee,' I had thought she had a hundred-dollar winner," Clyde Shinault said Monday.
The odds of winning were 1.2 million to one.
Edith Shinault will receive quarterly checks worth $13,000 before taxes as long as she lives. She is 59.
The couple continues to receive a $335,000 check each May.
While they have used those winnings to travel and purchase a larger house, their good luck will benefit their three grown sons and their families, they said.
"We have all the money we need, what with our savings and investments and the yearly checks," Clyde Shinault said.
They haven't given up on playing the lottery, though.
"We could hit it again," he said.
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