Georgia Lottery awards $25K Mega Millions retailer bonus

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

ATLANTA – Georgia Lottery retailer Red & Ed's Convenience Store is receiving a $25,000 retailer incentive bonus for selling a Mega Millions jackpot ticket. The store, located at 874 Corinth Road in Newnan, sold a jackpot ticket for the $12 million drawing held Sept. 1.

Any Georgia Lottery retailer who sells a winning Mega Millions jackpot ticket can earn the $25,000 retailer incentive bonus payment. If more than one winning jackpot ticket is sold in Georgia, the retailers selling the winning tickets will share the $25,000 retailer incentive bonus.

Wayne Reese, 54, of Sharpsburg correctly selected the winning numbers for the Sept. 1 Mega Millions drawing for $12 million. He selected the cash option and received $7.6 million before taxes.

As with all other Georgia Lottery games, proceeds from Mega Millions will benefit education in the state of Georgia.

Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned more than $11 billion to the state of Georgia for education. All Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for specific educational programs including Georgia's HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia's Pre-K Program. More than 1.1 million students have received HOPE, and more than 940,000 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.

For more information, please visit the Media Center on the Georgia Lottery Web site at:
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