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Lotto Winner Basks in Fortune : Jackpot: Ventura woman, who won a $12.6-million grand prize, is thinking about quitting one of her two jobs.

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Every Monday night, Sandra Trinka walks into her favorite Port Hueneme wine shop, plops down $5 and tells the clerk, “Give me some winners!”

This time it worked, and the 44-year-old Ventura woman went home Monday a $12.6-million winner in the California Super Lotto. That means she will receive $467,000 a year--after taxes--for the next 20 years.

“Finally I can do everything I’ve always wanted to do,” said a delighted Trinka, who has been holding down two jobs to support herself. “I don’t have to work 12 hours a day.”

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In fact, she didn’t work at all Tuesday, choosing instead to revel in her newfound wealth.

She called the local Lexus dealer, intent on replacing the 1986 Chevrolet Nova that has taken her 130,000 miles. She visited the local California Lottery office, where security officers determined she did, indeed, hold the winning ticket from last Wednesday’s drawing.

She even fielded two wedding proposals from unknown callers on a radio show.

“It’s funny how attractive you get when you have money,” Trinka said, laughing merrily.

Trinka could hardly stop laughing Tuesday.

Her $12.6-million prize marks the third largest jackpot ever awarded in Ventura County. The wine shop will receive one-half of 1% of the prize--about $65,000, in this case.

When Alice Mills, a clerk at the store, saw Trinka on Tuesday afternoon she screamed and hugged her.

“You’re going to love it. You’re going to love it,” Mills told her. “The house, the car. . . .”

“The time off,” Trinka added.

Trinka said she can’t remember the last vacation she took. She works days as a financial clerk at Ventura County Medical Center and nights at a medical clinic in Oxnard. Last weekend, she worked Saturday and Sunday.

She had just finished working both jobs when she stopped by the wine shop about 8 p.m. Monday.

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She handed the clerk the Lotto ticket with five Quick Pick combinations selected randomly by the computer a week earlier. When the clerk put the ticket through the computer, it came back a winner.

“She shook my hand and I thought she was joking,” Trinka recalled. “I looked at the ticket, and there were so many numbers I thought the machine was broken.” The ticket revealed that her random pick--4, 7, 10, 12, 43, 47--was worth $12,620,483.

Trinka was shaking so hard that she called her niece, Jessica, to pick her up. Tuesday morning was filled with calls from friends and relatives.

“They can’t believe it’s me, that they know someone, a millionaire,” she said breathlessly.

“I feel rich,” she told reporters at a press conference.

But she’s still not sure what she will do when the first installment of the jackpot arrives in three to four weeks. Trinka expects to drop at least one job, but she will hold on to the Ventura condo she’s renting until she decides what to do.

A Wisconsin native, she doesn’t expect to return there. She has been in California about five years, but might consider moving to Phoenix, Ariz., where her sister lives. Maybe she will buy a house. And one for her sister. And a dog.

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And a car. She plans to buy her niece a Ford Mustang, but for herself, Trinka wants something a bit more elegant. Perhaps a Lexus, she said.

But this time, she’s not worried about haggling with the car dealer.

“I think for once in my life, I’m not going to negotiate,” she said.

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