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December 3rd, 2018
Decatur librarian stacks lucky $25K win
ATLANTA – Thomas Fisher of Decatur recently checked out a lucky prize. Fisher was selected randomly to win $25,000 in the Nov. 17 Terrific Cash Tuesday drawing from the Georgia Lottery’s 25th Anniversary Cash Giveaway.
The 65-year-old librarian said he was in disbelief when he checked the promotion’s website and discovered he was a winner.
“I figured I would start at the top of the list with the big prizes and just work my way down,” he said. “But then I saw that my name was one of the first at the top – I couldn’t believe it.”
After pausing to give himself a second to digest his win, Fisher said he immediately notified his wife.
“I sent her a text telling her to check her email,” he said. “She texted me right back. In her words, she was ‘very, very excited.”
Fisher said that he plans to use his lucky winnings to vacation with his wife in Europe.
“I used to live there, but she’s never been,” he said. “It should be really nice.”
The lucky winner claimed his prize last week at Georgia Lottery headquarters.
From now until Dec. 15, players can enter non-winning Georgia Lottery tickets into the 25th Anniversary’s Cash Giveaway promotion for a chance to win up to $25,000 in monthly drawings.
The final Terrific Cash Tuesday drawing will take place Dec. 18.
More than 2,700 prizes up to $25,000 will be awarded in the drawing.
The deadline to enter the final Terrific Cash Tuesday drawing is Dec. 15.
In addition, the promotion’s final Big Cash Event drawing will be conducted Jan. 1, 2019.
25 winners will be selected randomly to win prizes up to $1 million.
The deadline to enter the final Big Cash Event drawing is Dec. 23.
For more information about the Georgia Lottery’s 25th Anniversary Cash Giveaway, including winners, drawing dates and lists of games eligible for entry, please visit: https://ga.secondchancebonuszone.com/25th/.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $20 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 1.8 million students have received HOPE, and more than 1.6 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program
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