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Yolanda Jimenez has been since 1985 being a true all-rounder of the hostelry. That year, together with her husband, she opened in Logroño the bar The Silver Trumpet, a modest establishment that this Thursday, Three Kings Day, has distributed among its neighbors around 60 million euros thanks to the tenths of the first prize of the Children’s Lottery. The hostess and her daughter, very fortunate, have also taken a pinch of that millionaire prize that, to Yoli —As it is known with affection—, “it is exciting, because it has been taken by people who really needed it”.
“Me husband and I have stayed a tenth, which is equivalent to 210.000 euros, not counting what I retain Hacienda, and my is, other. That will help me finish paying my mortgage and to lead a calmer life at work, although I don’t want to retire ”, he explains to EL ESPAÑOL Yolanda (Alberite, The Rioja, 1958). And is that this woman from 63 years recognizes that she “loves” being a hotelier after accumulating 37 years in The Silver Trumpet.
“I really like my job and I do everything. I serve at the bar, I serve in the dining room, I cook … everything. I have yet to consider leaving my job despite winning the award and nearing retirement. In a week, who knows, I may think otherwise “, laughs Yoli while, in the background, the commotion is heard in the bar that has sold near 300 tenths, equivalent to 60 million euros.
The residents of Logroño celebrate the first prize of the Lotería del Niño in La Trumpeta de Plata.
But Yoli has one thing clear. He wants to enjoy the award with his loved ones, especially with his three grandchildren. Although he wants to continue working, he has thought about leading a life a little more “relaxed”Because the hospitality industry is a very “slave” in which you have to work every day “even holidays”. But this January 6th, also festive, surely a Yolanda It has not been difficult for him to work and take out, every little bit, champagne bottles, whose liquid watered the heads of the most handsome.
A traditional bar
It was the year 1985 when Yolanda Jimenez and her husband settled in the capital of The Rioja. With two children, they decided to open a bar to take them forward and, little by little, they made a niche for themselves in a “working-class neighborhood of Logroño”, In his own words. Specifically, in the number 7 of Trinidad street.
There, the family became known for its menus of the day, which are “passionate” to their customers and for the treatment of the establishment. Was when Yoli and husband began to sell the same number of Christmas lottery and of Children’s Lottery: the 41.665. “For more than twenty years we play with this number “, reveals Yolanda in telephone conversation with this newspaper.
Yolanda Jiménez, at the bar counter, hugs another winning neighbor.
In fact, it is the Administration number 6 of Logroño it is the one that supplies you with this graceful number. Also, the daughter of Yolanda and the three employees from The Silver Trumpet have received a tenth of 41.665.
“The best thing about having won is that we have done happy many common people. This is a working class neighborhood and the people who have won thanks to our award needed it. There will be some that maybe not, but as a general rule, this money is very important for our humble customers. This neighborhood is so beautiful that there are many people who have not Lottery, but he is coming to congratulate us and rejoice for us ”, he is sincere Yoli.
The millions to Logroño
Thus, the first prize of the extraordinary draw of the Children’s Lottery, the 41.665, sold entirely in a single administration of Logroño, has led 100 million euros “Very distributed” to the Riojan capital, while the second and the third they have left “pinches” practically throughout the country. That Management has been the one that has provided a handful of series to The Silver Trumpet.
The Administration number 6 of Logroño, which has sold the first prize in its entirety.
Moreover, visibly moved, the person in charge of the graceful Riojan administration, Ángel Alda, has explained to Efe that all the tenths of the number, since it is an ending that “liked”. And it seems rightly so, because the 41.665, in addition to being graceful with the first prize, the termination 665 has been awarded with 100 euros to the tenth.
“It is a very welcome award” in this pandemic situation in Logroño, has specified the lottery, while the first comment of those responsible for the restaurant The Silver Trumpet It has been “it was time for us to do it! after more than twenty years subscribers to the number ”. Now, Yolanda Jimenez, her husband, her two children and its three grandchildren will enjoy that “pinch” that, to Yoli, it will relieve you of the “mortgage burden” and the “work burden”.
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