ATLANTA – Selling a quarter-million dollar ticket in College Park has created quite the buzz. Chevron, located at 5631 W. Fayetteville Road in College Park, has sold a winning $250,000 top prize from the Georgia Lottery instant game Cool Cash.
Store clerk Rashid Siddiqi said the winner scratched the ticket in front of his window at the store.
“I sold the ticket,” he exclaimed.
Dora Potter of Riverdale claimed her prize at Georgia Lottery headquarters Monday.
Because of this, more people are buying lottery tickets, Siddiqi said.
“Of course people are playing mostly now,” he said. “It’s a good thing people are winning from our store.”
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $12.3 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 1.3 million students have received HOPE, and more than 1.1 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
For more information on the Georgia Lottery Corp., please visit:
www.galottery.com
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