By Ariel Fullido
A 49-year old tricycle driver won P100,000 cash in the 5th Monthly Draw of "Instant Milyonaryo, Cash Papremyo" 2009 Raffle Promo of Alturas Supermarket, Plaza Marcela, Island City Mall and Alturas-Talibon, conducted last Friday, August 7, at Alturas-Talibon.
Mr. Francisco M. Escabarte of Bayacabac, Maribojoc is just an ordinary tricycle driver plying the streets of the city. With a meager average daily income of P250, he could hardly buy the basic needs for his family, and pay the tuition of his three grown-up children who are all studying in high school and college.
After a hard day's work one day, Francisco recalled that he bought some kilos of rice at Plaza Marcela at that time, and just kept the raffle coupons given to him by the cashier. No one really knows that one of the coupons bear the winning number 748694 in the said monthly draw.
Francisco is married to a plain housewife Asteria F. Escabarte, who looks after the children Francis Alvin, 18, now taking up Information Technology course at Informatics; Julius, 17, who is studying in Mindanao; and Ryan, 15, a student of St. Vincent Institute.
The lucky winner plans to use some of the money for the education of his three children, and buy his own tricycle, so he would no longer pay a rent to his sister who owns the unit he is driving.
The ten winners of P10,000 each are Luzviminda B. Evardo, Busali-an Jao, Talibon, Bohol (504946); Rosita Rejas Daroy, Bahi-an, Loboc, Bohol (800405); Edwin Dahab, Ubujan Dist., Tagb. City (633202); Maria Thelma Ayeng, Dao Dist., Tagb. City (332179); Naomi Trigo, Espuelas Ext., Tagb. City (176932); Lourdes Rara, Peñaflor St., Tagb. City (773416); Elvira Estomata, Songculan, Dauis, Bohol (674323); Christine Bulawan, Can-ageng, Sikatuna, Bohol (689343); Peter Fernandez, Catugasan, Dampas Dist., Tagb. City (566866); and Bernadeth Legaspo, Bogtongbod, Clarin, Bohol (567522).
The "Instant Milyonaryo, Cash Papremyo" Raffle Promo is the biggest cash bonanza promo now on its third year. In the grand draw last January 4, a 59-year old storeowner, Maria G. Castrodes, of Sawang, Guindulman, Bohol, won P1 million and became an instant millionaire. Mrs. Cecilia G. Dupalco, a public school teacher from Cayam, Garcia-Hernandez, Bohol, also became an instant millionaire in the first cash bonanza promo in 2007.
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