ATLANTA — A lucky gas station sold a winning Georgia Lottery instant ticket worth a half-million dollars. Jet Food Store #0091, 62 W. Main St. in Lakeland, sold a Jumbo Jumbo Bucks ticket worth a top prize of $500,000.
The winner, Jeremy Anderson of Valdosta, claimed his prize June 22 at the Georgia Lottery District Office in Tifton.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $16.2 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 1.3 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
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