2008 Woodie Awards
School's Newest Millionaires
The Sandspur's news editors are the most recent lottery winners.
Rochelle Siegel
Issue date: 3/31/06 Section: Life & Times
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A week ago the two news editors of The Sandspur went on their weekly grocery store trip and as a joke, the two bought a lottery ticket. They made a deal that if they won anything, even one dollar, they would split the winnings equally. And then when the winning numbers were announced it turned out the two editors, Nicole Fluet and Rochelle Siegel, won the Florida lottery jackpot of 70 million dollars.
Of course they kept their promise of splitting the money and each will receive about 25 million dollars after taxes. However, that 25 million will not come in one big check but rather in smaller checks over a period of about 20 years. The two editors will be getting some pretty big checks in the mail for the next 25 years.
Nicole told The Sandspur that she never watches the news, but stayed up late doing her homework the night the lottery numbers were announced and thought she was either dreaming or just overly exhausted. But after checking over 20 times, she realized she held the winning ticket.
The newest millionaires of Rollins become the talk of the college and two of the most popular girls on campus. Keeping the news quiet is impossible to do on a small campus like Rollins.
Both girls plan on staying at Rollins and finishing up their schooling and have no plans on taking time off. The future plans are to spend the summer over in Europe touring the countries of Italy, Greece, France, England, Sweden, Ireland and Germany, to name just a few. Rochelle is planning on buying her own jet to make the long trip overseas a bit more comfortable for herself and inviting all of her guests to join her aboard and along the four week trip. Nicole will be setting up a private chauffer service to take them to each destination in Europe.
Once they return, Nicole is going to begin construction on her four bedroom, three bathroom weekend apartment near Disney which she will share with her boyfriend Dave. The two spend a lot of time at Disney, so the closer the better.
According to many, the best thing to do when a person wins the lottery is to get away from anyone who may have influence over you. Plan alone what you will do with your own money and do not worry about what anyone else thinks. Both Nicole and Rochelle have planned on spending some time out of town deciding on what they are going to do with the money for the rest of their lives and how much of it they are going to save.
As of now, Nicole plans on opening up a children's bookstore in which she will contact guest writers to stop by and do weekly reading for local children. Rochelle's plans are to pursue a career in journalism. With this boost of income, the girls may have two feet in the door and be just one step closer to their dreams.
The best part of winning the lottery is that they never have to struggle for money, and instead live their lives in the ways they always dreamed.
Of course they kept their promise of splitting the money and each will receive about 25 million dollars after taxes. However, that 25 million will not come in one big check but rather in smaller checks over a period of about 20 years. The two editors will be getting some pretty big checks in the mail for the next 25 years.
Nicole told The Sandspur that she never watches the news, but stayed up late doing her homework the night the lottery numbers were announced and thought she was either dreaming or just overly exhausted. But after checking over 20 times, she realized she held the winning ticket.
The newest millionaires of Rollins become the talk of the college and two of the most popular girls on campus. Keeping the news quiet is impossible to do on a small campus like Rollins.
Both girls plan on staying at Rollins and finishing up their schooling and have no plans on taking time off. The future plans are to spend the summer over in Europe touring the countries of Italy, Greece, France, England, Sweden, Ireland and Germany, to name just a few. Rochelle is planning on buying her own jet to make the long trip overseas a bit more comfortable for herself and inviting all of her guests to join her aboard and along the four week trip. Nicole will be setting up a private chauffer service to take them to each destination in Europe.
Once they return, Nicole is going to begin construction on her four bedroom, three bathroom weekend apartment near Disney which she will share with her boyfriend Dave. The two spend a lot of time at Disney, so the closer the better.
According to many, the best thing to do when a person wins the lottery is to get away from anyone who may have influence over you. Plan alone what you will do with your own money and do not worry about what anyone else thinks. Both Nicole and Rochelle have planned on spending some time out of town deciding on what they are going to do with the money for the rest of their lives and how much of it they are going to save.
As of now, Nicole plans on opening up a children's bookstore in which she will contact guest writers to stop by and do weekly reading for local children. Rochelle's plans are to pursue a career in journalism. With this boost of income, the girls may have two feet in the door and be just one step closer to their dreams.
The best part of winning the lottery is that they never have to struggle for money, and instead live their lives in the ways they always dreamed.