An
assembly technician from Harlem
has put together a winning combination. Kenya Evans won $235,602 as one
of two players to match all five winning numbers in the
Fantasy 5 drawing on Nov. 1.
Kenya Evans with her $235,000 lottery
check
“I
was screaming and jumping up and down,” said Evans, 26.
“It still hasn’t sunk in yet.
Winning
numbers for the drawing were: 7-14-26-29-32.
According to Evans, she used her age and the ages of
some relatives for her lucky combination. She purchased
the top prize ticket at GT Package Shop, located at
5108
Wrightsboro Road
in Grovetown.
Evans,
who works for a tractor company, plans to “pay bills off
first, then invest and get a new car.”
Georgia
Lottery retailers selling winning Fantasy 5 top prize
tickets receive a retailer incentive bonus of $2,000.
The retailer incentive bonus increases by $2,000 each
time Fantasy 5 rolls. If more than one winning top prize
ticket is sold, the retailers selling the top prize
winning tickets will share the bonus. GT Package Shop
will receive a retailer incentive bonus of
$6,000.
Since
its first year, the Georgia
Lottery Corporation has returned over $9.5
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 1 million students
have received HOPE, and more than 850,000 4-year-olds
have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten
program.