Berlin woman celebrates with 'lucky dance' after winning big in Maryland Lottery contest
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Virginia won big in Maryland. How about that!
An Eastern Shore woman boogied her way to the finish of the Maryland Lottery’s 50th Anniversary Cash Bash Event on Friday, Sept. 8, nabbing a whopping $100,000 prize before an audience of spectators at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium.
According to the Maryland Lottery, the winner — 63-year-old Virginia Mayo Holland of Berlin — was one of 10 finalists who had been randomly selected from more than 3.3 million entries in the Maryland Lottery’s 50th Anniversary Cash Bash second-chance promotion.
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A centerpiece of the Maryland Lottery’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, the Cash Bash promotion ran from February to August and featured a series of five drawings. In each drawing, two finalists were selected to take part in the Cash Bash Event for a chance to win a prize of up to $5 million, the Maryland Lottery said in a news release.
Mayo Holland and the other nine finalists entered the contest by registering $50 worth of any Lottery products through My Lottery Rewards, the Maryland Lottery’s player loyalty program.
In Friday’s event, Mayo Holland advanced to the last of three rounds by selecting a series of numbers from a large video board. With each selection, the finalists had a chance to win a cash prize or advance further for a chance to win larger prizes, the release said.
Although the results were random, Mayo Holland’s number selection had a deeper meaning.
“I was choosing numbers that were meaningful for me, my husband’s age, my number of children,” she said.
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When one of those meaningful selections carried her to the final round, she punctuated the lucky moment with a dance and a little twirl, the release said.
“That’s my lucky dance — something I’ve always done when luck comes my way,” Mayo Holland said with a smile.
The lucky finalist would dance again — this time after revealing several matching prize amounts in the final round and winning $100,000.
“I’m just so grateful,” she said. “With this prize money I can do things that will improve life for both me and my husband.”
The other nine other finalists also won prizes at the Cash Bash Event:
$25,000 Winners
Andrea Grimes from Huntingtown
Belinda Parsons from Salisbury
Harry Sheldon from Easton
Fern Francis from Washington, D.C.
$10,000 Winners
Patricia Curtis from Baltimore
Anita Karki from Montgomery Village
Jacqueline Kluga from Arnold
Connie Plater from Oxon Hill
Bonnie Klein from Forest Hill
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Olivia Minzola covers communities on the Lower Shore. Contact her with tips and story ideas at ominzola@delmarvanow.com.
This article originally appeared on Salisbury Daily Times: Berlin woman wins big in lottery’s 50th Anniversary Cash Bash Finale
