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Jonesboro great-grandfather taps $20K in 2nd chance promo
ATLANTA – A Jonesboro great-grandfather has piled a prize from the Georgia Lottery. Willie Smith won a $20,000 prize from being selected as a grand prize winner in the Georgia Lottery’s Play It Again Reloaded Second Chance Promotion.
“It feels great. I don’t have any plans yet,” said Smith, 75. “I’ve been playing the games. It was great that I got this chance.”
As a monthly cash prize winner in the Georgia Lottery’s Play It Again Reloaded Second Chance Promotion, Smith had an opportunity to spin a wheel to win cash prizes ranging from $5,000 to $1 million.
A retired auto mechanic, Smith and his wife, Nettie, have six adult children, a host of grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Georgia Lottery players with non-winning $1 and $2 instant tickets or non-winning Mega Millions and Powerball tickets can enter into the Georgia Lottery’s Play It Again Reloaded Second Chance Promotion. For more information, visit www.galottery.com.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $16.2 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.
For more information on the Georgia Lottery Corp., please visit:
www.galottery.com and www.lotterybenefitsgeorgians.com
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