ATLANTA – A frozen food manager from Macon has won a cool Georgia Lottery prize. Garry Melvin played the instant game Winter Bucks and won $25,000.
"I was really shocked. Just really shocked and surprised," said Melvin, 30.
Market Place #0006, located at 5631 Houston Road in Macon, sold the top prize ticket. Melvin scratched his ticket in the store's parking lot.
"I went home and showed my wife," he said. "The shock turned to excitement after I got home, and that's when the jumping started."
Melvin, a father of three, works at a grocery store.
"I'm going to pay some bills and, of course, do some Christmas shopping," he shared. "It means a lot."
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned over $9.5 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 Prekindergarten Program. More than 1 million students have received HOPE, and more than 850,000 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
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