Winner of Lottery Plans to Help Others
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A teacher who apparently holds the winning $111-million Powerball lottery ticket said he is hiding out in Florida and making spending plans that have nothing to do with mansions and luxury cars.
“The particular school I was teaching at could use some improvements that I would like to help them make,” Leslie Robins, 30, told the Ledger of Lakeland in a story published Saturday.
“And we would like to help out the hospital where my fiancee is.”
Robins, 30, a junior high school English teacher from Fond du Lac, Wis., plans to share the largest individual lottery prize in U.S. history with his fiancee, nurse Colleen De Vries.
After Robins’ numbers apparently came up Wednesday in the lottery, played in 14 states and the District of Columbia, the couple flew to his parents’ home in Tampa, Fla., then went to an undisclosed location on Florida’s Gulf Coast to escape attention.
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