{"id":421451,"date":"2026-08-31T02:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421451\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T02:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:02:16","slug":"lucky-san-antonio-woman-wins-new-vehicle-in-drive-away-for-education-raffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421451\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky San Antonio woman wins new vehicle in Drive Away for Education raffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; One lucky woman is getting a new set of wheels after this year\u2019s Drive Away for Education campaign raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Texas students.<\/p>\n<p>Belinda Puente of San Antonio won the campaign\u2019s grand prize and will get to choose between a brand-new car or truck. Puente got the surprise call Thursday night and said she could hardly believe she had finally won after years of entering raffles and supporting different causes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enter like every raffle almost every year, and I\u2019ve never won,\u201d Puente said. \u201cI try to win a car. You know, I support so many different causes, but I\u2019ve never, you know, wow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Puente is scheduled to be at Ancira Nissan on Saturday, Aug. 29, at 11:30 a.m. to finalize paperwork and take photos. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/live-drive-away-for-education-support-local-students-for-a-chance-at-a-new-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lucky San Antonio woman wins new vehicle in Drive Away for Education raffle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The campaign also raised $442,000 for Texas YES, which provides new school supplies to more than 80,000 students across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Other winners announced Thursday night included Richard Pena of San Antonio, who won a $4,000 shopping spree, and Kevin Ward of Boerne, who won a $2,500 gas card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; One lucky woman is getting a new set of wheels after this year\u2019s Drive Away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-421451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}