PALMA
LADY Luck favoured Majorca last Friday when the lottery organisation run by the blind and partially-sighted (ONCE) paid out prizes totalling 38'400 euros.
The winnings were spread out over 64 ticket holders who claim their share based on the last four numbers of the coupon. The sellers were ONCE agents Antonio Marquez, Francisco Cabezas, Antonio Amer and Antonio Saez.
ONCE said in a statement that Marquez has been selling tickets for them since July of 1983. From his kiosk on Avenida Alexandre Rosselló in Palma, he sold 40 tickets, each of which resulted in prizes of 600 euros each.
Cabezas has been working with ONCE since April of 1978 and he sold two of the winning tickets from his kiosk at the main entrance to the Carrefour supermarket in General Riera.
Amer, an ONCE worker since December 1987, sold 12 tickets from his outlet on the Arta road in the municipality of Alcudia.
Finally, Saez is a relative newcomer to ONCE, operating for the organisation since April 2006 in Peguera where he sold 10 of the tickets with a 600 euro prize attached to them. There are 1'250 people with sight disabilities belonging to ONCE in the Balearics. Of these 259 are completely blind while the remainder have some visual impairment. Included in the total are 645 sellers who are affiliated to ONCE but who work with some form of physical handicap other than blindness.
ONCE lotteries can be played on line at www.juegosonce.com.
Thanks to the money gained from sales of lottery tickets, ONCE funds blind students with special facilities so that they can take courses at ordinary schools, colleges and universities.
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