ATLANTA - One lucky Austell man has won a plentiful prize from the Georgia Lottery. Jimmy Finley, 79, won a $275,000 top prize playing the instant game EZ GRAND.
Chevron Food Mart, 690 S. Gordon Road SW in Mableton, sold the winning ticket.
Finley thought he’d won $275, but his wife took a look at the ticket and shared the good news.
“This came in the nick of time,” Finley exclaimed.
Finley plans to make home improvements and buy a new automobile with his winnings.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $17.6 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 1.4 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
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