$25,000 tuneup: Brooklet auto mechanic wins lottery

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

ATLANTA – A Brooklet auto mechanic caught a lucky “brake” with a $25,000 Georgia Lottery prize. Gordon Bowen, 43, played the instant game Tattoo Doubler and won a top prize.

“I was out making my usual afternoon coffee run,” he said.

Zip-N-Food #0001, 8700 Highway 67 in Brooklet, sold the winning ticket, and Bowen scratched it in his car.

“It was exciting,” he said. “My wife was there, too. She’s the one who flipped out.”

Bowen and his wife, Angie, intend to invest their winnings.

Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned more than $11.4 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 1 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.

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