Fairmount Man Wins $500,000
Tony Potts
11-07-2009
While moving into his new home in Fairmount, a man stumbled onto
a half-million dollar lottery prize. Eduardo White, 45, played
the Georgia Lottery instant game $500,000 Monopoly and won
$500,000. `We just moved there over the weekend,` he said. `While
we were moving, I decided to stop to get breakfast, and I bought
the ticket.` Shell Food Mart 0530, 921 Highway 53 S.E. in
Calhoun, sold the winning ticket. White was in his car when he
scratched it.
Pictured Above: White
`I just couldn’t believe it,` he said. `I just closed on the
house last Friday.`
With his prize, White anticipates buying new home furniture and a new truck or minivan.
“This is awesome,” he exclaimed. “It is a lot.”
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned more than $11.2 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 1.2 million students have received HOPE, and more than 940,000 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
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