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Happy Meal: Covington man wins $52K at drive-thru
ATLANTA – The Happy Meal has gotten even happier for one Covington man. Christopher Hamilton, 26, won $52,000 when he scratched a Georgia Lottery instant ticket at a McDonald’s drive-thru.
“I had just ordered,” he said. “I was waiting behind two cars. That’s when I started scratching.
Hamilton was stunned to discover that he struck gold at the Golden Arches.
“I was going crazy in my truck,” he said.
A cable company service technician, Hamilton plans to pay bills, help his mother and “splurge just a little bit.”
Hamilton won playing Weekly Bonus, a new instant game with top prizes of $1,000 a week for a year.
Quick Spot #0036, located at 10260 Highway 36 in Covington, sold the lucky ticket.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $12.9 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 and www.lotterybenefitsgeorgians.com
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