Charity chief wins $27 mil. jackpot

Charity chief wins $27 mil. jackpot: "Charity chief wins $27 mil. jackpot
December 8, 2004
BY GILLIAN FLACCUS

LOS ANGELES -- All too often, the ring of Debi Faris-Cifelli's cell phone means there is another abandoned newborn at the morgue, another forsaken child for her to name and bury in a shoebox-size coffin under a white cross in the California desert.
Last week, though, Faris-Cifelli -- who has had to rely on donations, grants and fund-raisers to give babies a decent burial -- got a very different call.
She had won the California "