Jeffersonville store sells $150,000 Georgia Lottery prize
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
ATLANTA – A Jeffersonville store is celebrating since selling a giant Georgia Lottery prize. Corner Stop, located at 22 Ga. Highway 96 W. in Jeffersonville, recently sold a $150,000 Giant Jumbo Bucks top prize ticket.
“The lady came by and bought the ticket, and she was jumping in the store,” said Navdeep Patel, store manager.
The winner, a Jeffersonville resident, claimed the $150,000 prize July 21.
The news has spread and Patel is seeing more people come into his store.
“We feel like a lucky store, and that’s what we tell everybody,” he said.
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