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Vital sign check: Medical assistant wins $150K prize
ATLANTA – One medical assistant had to check her vital signs when she discovered she’d won $150,000 playing the Georgia Lottery. Heather Woolston won her top prize playing the instant game Giant Jumbo Bucks.
Woolston, a resident of Easley, S.C., was in Athens visiting family when she purchased her winning ticket at Jefferson Marathon, 3465 Jefferson Road, Athens.
“We scratched it in the car, and I started crying,” said Woolston, 25. “We were all very excited.”
The money will help the family, she explained.
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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