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Dearing mother to blast off 2011 with $40,000
ATLANTA – A Dearing mother of two will ring in New Year’s with a win from the Georgia Lottery. Sandra Burnett, 41, played the instant game Big Money and won a $40,000 top prize.
“My mother and I stopped to get something to eat at a restaurant next door to where I purchased the ticket,” she said.
She purchased her lucky ticket at Mo Convenience & Tobacco Stores, 660 Augusta Highway in Thomson, but scratched it while at home.
“I almost had a heart attack,” the mother of two said.
Feeling good about her windfall, Burnett said she plans to purchase a new car.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $12.1 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 1.25 million students have received HOPE, and more than 1 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
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