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Macon woman wins $80,000
ATLANTA – A Macon woman can yell “bingo” twice. Mary Ann Busbee, 58, won $80,000 playing the Georgia Lottery game Bingo Bingo.
Busbee remained calm after scratching the lucky instant ticket, but her fiancé and sister were a little more animated.
“They almost jumped through the ceiling,” she said.
Gary’s Food Mart #0004, located at 158 Highway 49 in Macon, sold the top prize ticket.
According to Busbee, she’ll use her winnings to pay bills.
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.
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