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Blood donor wins new car contest
Updated: Thursday, 20 Sep 2012, 9:34 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 20 Sep 2012, 9:10 PM EDT
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - A Tipp City man is the proud new owner of a Ford Focus. What's so special about that, you ask?
He won it, partly by donating blood at the Dayton Community Blood Center, but also with a little luck.
Norman Elser was one of nearly 26,000 people to enter a contest called "iFocus on Saving Lives".
He was randomly chosen as one of ten finalists. The finalists opened their lucky tickets Thursday and it was Elser who came out with a new car.
“I never win anything,” he said. “I won a baseball in a pie-eating contest when I was boy growing up in Northwest Ohio," said Elser. "I don’t play the lottery. I was surprised to even be a finalist.”
Norman's wife was counting on victory seeing as their car is a 2002 model with 212,000 miles on it.
Elser is retired from the FAA inflight service station at the Dayton Airport and served as a volunteer with Honor Flight. He’s a Navy veteran from the Vietnam era and a life-long blood donor.
The other nine finalists received $50 gas cards.
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