多听听CHYM-FM 这个广播电台，您就有机会赢得10万元：电台会播出一些问题，然后随即拨打电话征求答案：回答上了就可以的10万元的奖金…….
$100,000 win just in time for Kitchener couple
Before they parted for work yesterday morning Donna and Chris Baron were wondering how they could possibly afford a new truck.
They went back and forth – do we or do we not have the money?
“Well, this is the day CHYM-FM gives away $100,000 so we won’t have to worry,” a hopeful Donna Baron told her husband.
Chris Baron, a little less optimistic, shook his head.
“I’m going to work now,” he told her. “That’s the only place I can make real money.”
He should have listened to his wife.
At 7:10 a.m., just as she predicted, Baron won the station’s $100,000 Phrase that Pays contest.
And even though she told her husband they would be winners, she found it hard to believe herself.
“Am I dreaming?” she asked hosts George Michaels and Tara Connors shortly after receiving the call and blurting out the winning line: “Any time is CHYM-time, now give me my money!”
Baron, who has only ever won a set of crayons after guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar, is the sixth person to win the grand prize since the contest started in 1998.
The Kitchener resident had her name chosen from a database that includes all the numbers in Waterloo Region and Guelph-area phone books, as well as any unlisted phone numbers submitted by residents wanting to be part of the competition.
Connors dialed two other numbers before Baron’s number was picked. One call was to a man in Linwood who said he would graciously accept the cash but didn’t know the phrase. The second call was to a home in Cambridge. No one answered.
When the phone rang in Baron’s home, the 37-year-old was getting ready for her job as a case aid worker with the Ontario Works program. Her husband was already at the Cambridge landfill site on Savage Drive where he works as a heavy machine operator.
He was driving a truck – with the radio turned down – when a co-worker screamed, “Your wife’s on the radio, you won $100,000.”
“I was a little skeptical, but as soon as I heard her voice and the phrase that pays I knew it was a good day,” said Chris Baron, who celebrates his 36th birthday tomorrow.
The Baron’s still have to decide what to spend their money on. But one thing is for sure ?buying a truck will be a lot easier now.
