Albany housekeeper wins a tidy $280,000

Thursday, November 19, 2009

ATLANTA – An Albany housekeeper is celebrating a "tidy" Georgia Lottery win. Belinda Gilliard, 43, matched all five winning numbers in the Nov. 10 Fantasy 5 drawing and won $280,127.

Gilliard purchased her jackpot ticket at June Bug's Grocery, 1905 S. Madison St., Albany.

"I went by the store to pick up a printout of the winning numbers and realized I won," Gilliard explained.

Winning numbers for the Nov. 10 Fantasy 5 drawing were: 7-18-26-31-33. Gilliard won using numbers from a previous Quik Pik combination.

"I had a Quik Pik and kept playing the same numbers over for awhile," she said.

According to Gilliard, she's still deciding how to use her winnings.

Georgia Lottery retailers selling winning Fantasy 5 jackpot tickets receive a retailer incentive bonus of $2,000. The retailer incentive bonus increases by $2,000 each time Fantasy 5 rolls. If more than one winning jackpot ticket is sold, the retailers selling the jackpot winning tickets will share the bonus. June Bug’s Grocery will receive a $6,000 retailer incentive bonus.

Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned more than $11.2 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 1.2 million students have received HOPE, and more than 940,000 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.

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