A
Monroe
postal worker is carried away with excitement. Nallie
Atkism won $2,008 a week for a year for a total of
$104,416 playing Weekly Bonus
2008,
a
Georgia Lottery instant game.
Chestnut
Cupboard, 1135
Church St.
in Monroe
, sold the lucky ticket. She scratched it in the
car.
Nallie Atkism with
her lottery check
“I
was so excited, I started hollering,” the mother of
three said about her lottery win. “I’d recently been
dreaming that I would win something playing the
lottery.
Atkism,
32, is a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. She
plans to buy a new car and save the remainder of her
winnings.
“I
feel good because I can get whatever I want,” she
exclaimed.
Since
its first year, the Georgia
Lottery Corporation has returned over $9.7
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 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.