Bayport woman wins big

Glenda Sopha attended the Oprah Winfrey Show last year, but the surprises keep coming.

Sopha, of Bayport, got more than she bargained for when she attended the show last Novemer. She and her granddaughter got tickets at the last minute and walked away from the show with several thousand dollars' worth of prizes.

"I've been such a big fan of Oprah's and my granddaughter had been trying to get us tickets," Sopha said. "She got through and I really think we got the last two seats in the house."

Sopha said they received more than $7,000 worth of "this and that," including a Coach purse, iPad, cookware and $1,000 to Nordstrom's. Plus, they each won a car.

Sopha was a winner of Oprah's Biggest Giveway, which that day was a 2012 VW Beetle. After nearly a year from winning the prize, Sopha finally picked up her new car last week.

"It's getting to be that same excitement again because it's finally coming," Sopha said a few days before she picked up her Beetle at Schmelz Countryside Volkswagon dealership in St. Paul.

Sopha said she couldn't believe it when she won the car. It was already a highlight to meet Oprah, but the car was the icing on the cake.

"I shook her hand," Sopha said.

The Oprah Winfrey Show ran for 25 seasons, which concluded May 25.

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