ATLANTA – A Blackshear mother of three has won a spectacular Georgia Lottery prize packed with hundreds of thousands of dollars in winnings. Dawn Butts, 48, won a $150,000 top prize playing the instant game Giant Jumbo Bucks.
N & R Food Mart, 703 Gordon St. in Blackshear, sold the winning ticket.
“My daughter and I, we danced,” the lucky winner said. “I scratched it in the car.”
Excited about her prize, Butts anticipates purchasing a brand new car.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $15.7 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 1.7 million students have received HOPE, and more than 1.3 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
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