{"id":296850,"date":"2019-04-04T06:06:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=296850"},"modified":"2019-04-04T06:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:06:04","slug":"las-vegas-night-raffle-winners-claim-their-checks-from-rotary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/las-vegas-night-raffle-winners-claim-their-checks-from-rotary\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Night raffle winners claim their checks from Rotary"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_296851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-296851\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Rotary-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"253\" class=\"size-full wp-image-296851\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-296851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Rotary Club of Saipan president Greg Borja, third grand prize winner Marmy Peter, grand prize winner Ramonito Militante, fourth grand prize winner Leonora Mabutas, second grand prize winner Richard Asuncion, club president-elect Marcia Ayuyu, club member Sean Ficke, and club vice president Brian Clayton pose for a photo Tuesday. (Erwin Encinares)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His grand prize win at the2019 Rotary Club of Saipan\u2019s Las Vegas Night couldn\u2019t have come at a better time.<\/p>\n<p>Ramonito Militante, 75, who had a choice between $10,000 cash and a 2019 Mitsubishi Mirage car as the prize last Saturday, opted to go for the cash prize, saying he will use it for his medical expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The second prize winner, on the other hand, wants to save his winnings.<\/p>\n<p>Militante told Saipan Tribune Tuesday during the Rotary Club of Saipan meeting at the Hyatt Regency Saipan\u2014when the winners were presented with their checks\u2014that the money would go to his medical expenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy that God gave me this money because this money will be going to my medicine,\u201d he said, adding that he had hypertension, diabetes, and prostate enlargement.<\/p>\n<p>Militante, who hails from the province of Antique in the Philippines., has been on Saipan for over six years now.<\/p>\n<p>The second prize winner, 42-year-old Richard Asuncion, who won $3,000, was initially mistakenly told by his friends last Saturday night that he had won the grand prize. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI later found out I got the second grand prize,\u201d he said. \u201cI still feel blessed to have won.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Asuncion wishes to set the money aside for now. \u201cEvery year I buy tickets to support the event. Last year I got four booklets, but this year I only bought one ticket and got lucky,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Marmy Peter won the third grand prize of $2,000 while Leonora Mabutas won $1,000 for the fourth grand prize. <\/p>\n<p>The Rotary Club of Saipan printed about $50,000 worth of tickets. Blub president Greg Borja said that most of the tickets were sold. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026I think we sold the most tickets this year,\u201d said Borja, compared to the last three Las Vegas Nights. \u201cLast year we raised about $23,000 net\u201d but with fewer tickets sold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am hoping we are a little bit higher than that this year, especially with the introduction of the new table games, including our Texas Hold \u2019Em poker tournament and the three-card poker table,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His grand prize win at the2019 Rotary Club of Saipan\u2019s Las Vegas Night couldn\u2019t have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":296851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6955],"class_list":["post-296850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-las-vegas-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}