A
grocery store worker is checking out a Georgia Lottery win. Jennifer
Butler, 25, played the instant game Jumbo Bucks Classic
and won a $50,000 top prize.
Jennifer Butler with her $50,000 lottery
check
Flash
Foods #0271, located at 1800
N. Ashley St.
in Valdosta,
sold the lucky ticket. Butler
scratched her ticket in the store’s parking
lot.
“I
had just gotten in the car,” she said. “I couldn’t
believe it. I actually started crying.
Butler’s
mother and brother were with her at the
time.
“They
were really excited. They were crying and hollering and
jumping around,” she said.
Butler,
a resident of Greenville,
Fla.,
will use her winnings to help buy a new home for her
mother.
Since
its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has
returned over $9.9 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 860,000 4-year-olds
have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten
program.