Camarillo Couple Wins $6-Million Lotto Jackpot : Lottery: It is the fifth-largest jackpot in Ventura County. The two winners want to ‘keep things as normal as possible.’

For Laura and Brad Young of Camarillo sudden wealth was taken in stride.

The winners of Saturday’s $6.78-million California Lottery, the Youngs say you won’t catch them at foreign car dealerships or fur shops. Their goal is to stay the same comfortable, middle-class family despite their new-found millions.

“You can’t very well fit a baby seat in a Porsche, can you?” quipped Brad Young, a 34-year-old TWA pilot, during a Monday press conference in Ventura. “Our goal is try and keep things as normal as possible.”

Sitting with 2-year-old daughter Kelsey, the Youngs--winners of the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in county history--calmly fielded questions despite the glare of cameras.

“I’ll probably quit my job, but that’s the biggest change that we’ll make,” said Laura Young, 31, an employee of a Camarillo property management firm and an expectant mother.

“I think we’ll buy a minivan, and maybe we’ll set up some trust funds for our kids and friends’ kids educations. Most of it will be carefully socked away though,” she said.

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Laura Young bought the winning ticket Thursday at the Daily Drive Sav-on store. Both she and her husband are infrequent players and relied on pure chance by asking the lottery’s “quick pick” computer to select their winning numbers--20, 22, 26, 29, 35 and 49.

“I bought the ticket and then forgot about it until Sunday,” she said. After a quick trip to the store, she checked. “I told Brad and he didn’t believe me at first. He kept checking and rechecking the numbers.”

According to Stephen Freund, district manager for the lottery, the Youngs will receive annual checks of $244,080 after taxes for the next 20 years. They will get their first one in three weeks, he said.

Freund said he was impressed by the couple’s calm.

“I think I was more nervous than they were,” Freund said. “They just won more than $6 million, and they’re treating it like it was $6. These people are really grounded, well-rounded folks.”

John Jensen, a manager at Sav-on, said he could not believe that fortune had struck when he checked lottery numbers Sunday afternoon.

“I put their ticket in the machine. It burped and gurgled and came back verifying all six numbers,” Jensen said. “They promised me a dinner out with them soon. It couldn’t have happened to nicer people.”

For selling the Youngs a single $5 ticket, the drug store gets $33,099, Freund said.

Both Laura and Brad Young are from middle-class backgrounds, she said. He graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in aeronautics. She graduated from Moorpark College.

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Both are pilots. She got her license in 1988. He trained privately in Orange County and is now a first officer for TWA and a captain in the Air National Guard’s Channel Islands 146th Tactical Airlift Wing.

The Youngs hinted that they might allow themselves one indulgence.

“Right now, we have to rent aircraft,” she said. “Maybe someday we’ll buy ourselves a plane.”