A
Texas man in the
process of relocating to
Georgia is celebrating
a half-million dollar Georgia Lottery win. Paul Frear
played Jumbo Jumbo Bucks and won the instant game’s
$500,000 top prize.
Friendly
Express #0052, located at
3601 Frederica
Rd. on
St.
Simons
Island , sold the
winning ticket. Frear scratched his ticket at the
store.
“I
had to show it to the clerk because I couldn’t believe
it,” he says. “She was more excited than I was, so I
knew it was good news.”
Frear works as
a supervisor for an architectural millwork company. The
San
Antonio resident has
been on a long-term work assignment in
Glynn
County . He currently
stays on Sea
Island and plans to
relocate to Georgia
within a few months.
According to
Frear, he’ll use his Georgia Lottery winnings to pay
bills and to help with his move to
Georgia . “I’ll also
probably buy a new vehicle,” he
adds.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery
Corporation has returned over $8.4 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 Prekindergarten Program. More than
900,000 students have received HOPE
Scholarships, and more than 700,000 4-year-olds have
attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten
program
