MISSY CRAIG ... COME ON DOWN!

The price was definitely right for 24-year-old Missy Craig. The bubbly young Dublin woman recently appeared on the CBS game show "The Price is Right" — and won a new car.

"It probably was the best moment of my life. I've watched the show since I was a little girl," she said.

The show featuring Missy was taped a couple months ago, but will air Friday, so you can watch her get picked from the crowd, earn a spot on the stage and react when the announcer asks: "How would you like to win a brand-new car?"

"My heart was pounding out of my chest. I watch the show every day. I even play the game with friends on the Nintendo Wii," she said.

But Missy, who grew up and works in Danville, admits she was a bit thrown when host Drew Carey told her she would be playing a game called "Pocket Change" in order to win the car.

"They picked the one game I didn't know how to play," she said.

Essentially, she had to guess the correct numbers of the price of the car in order to earn envelopes holding coins that would allow her to buy it. She did really well with the game and bought the car for 25 cents.

"I won it on the last number. The audience was going nuts," Missy said.

Missy won a 2009 Chevrolet HHR, but the producers told her they would upgrade it to the 2010 model. She also got to pick the color. On the show, the car was candy apple red, but Missy

"I drive kind of fast. The cops look for red cars, so I asked if I could have it in charcoal gray."

The rules state that Missy doesn't get the car until after the show airs. So, not that she's excited or anything, but she and a friend are flying to Los Angeles on Friday to pick up and drive the car home to Dublin.

And, in case you're wondering, Missy says Drew Carey is a very nice guy.

"During the commercials he talked to me. He was very personable and said to me at one point 'Kind of surreal, isn't it?'"‰"

When Missy drives her new car home Friday, she'll also be able to celebrate with a chilled glass of wine. She also won a wine refrigerator.

KB Homes Donates to Wells — It's not a great time for homebuilders. The economy, which appears to be inching its way out of recession, has created a dramatic decrease in home sales and new home construction. In fact, builder KB Homes recently had to close one of its home centers in Livermore and lay off all the workers.

But, as they say, one man's loss is another man's gain, with Dublin's Wells Middle School the recipient of the good fortune. KB Homes gave Wells all the furniture from the Livermore center.

But the good fortune didn't stop there.

The furniture donation then led to the donation of 35 computer systems now being used in Wells' "Computers to Home" program.

"The computers are cleaned and reloaded with an operating system donated by Microsoft. The computers are then matched with students in need, whose families are not economically able to place funds toward a computer system," said Cindy Leung, community liaison for Wells.

The software also allows for academic intervention, meaning students who may be struggle in school now have a new opportunity to get back on track.

A sad story with a happy ending.

Reach Alan Elias at elias2000@sbcglobat.net.