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Rincon man spots instant ticket, wins $250K prize
ATLANTA – One lucky Rincon man has won an eye-popping quarter-million dollar prize from the Georgia Lottery. Timothy Waters, 33, played the holiday-themed instant game Giant Jingle Bucks, winning a $250,000 top prize.
Gate Store #225, 390 Columbia Ave. in Rincon, sold the winning ticket.
“I was stopping to fill up my mom’s car with gas,” Waters said.
While sitting in his mother’s car, Waters scratched the instant ticket and began to shake.
“I was shaking so bad,” he recalled.
With his winnings, Waters intends to purchase his mother a brand new car and a SUV for himself.
“I want to fix up my truck, pay off bills and invest,” he shared.
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.
For more information on the Georgia Lottery Corp., please visit:
www.galottery.com and www.lotterybenefitsgeorgians.com
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