College student in Columbus wins merry $1M

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

ATLANTA – She's no Scrooge. College student Casandra Dixon has won a merry $1 million prize playing the Georgia Lottery's World Class Millions instant game.

"I'm going to make sure everybody has a good Christmas," she exclaimed.

CITGO Food Store #0201, 2362 S. Lumpkin Road in Columbus, sold the winning ticket. The 32-year-old scratched half of the ticket in the store and the other half at home.

"I was like, 'Wow,' " she said. "It was shocking."

Dixon, a resident of Seale, Ala., is studying to become a dental hygienist at Columbus Technical College. A mother of four with husband, Rodney, Dixon plans to spread good cheer in her household.

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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