ATLANTA – A Cumming executive has managed to win the lottery. Godfrey Hicks, chief executive officer of a local power generation plant, is one of two players to win $97,681 each from matching all five winning numbers in the March 9 Fantasy 5 drawing.
Cumming Texaco Store #0001, 720 Atlanta Highway in Cumming sold the lucky Quik Pik ticket. Winning numbers from the March 9 Fantasy 5 drawing were: 7-9-31-33-34. The second winning top prize ticket was purchased in Douglasville.
Hicks, 71, said he watched the televised drawing.
"I didn't believe it," he said. "I had a sleepless night. When I woke up the next morning, I had to check it again."
Hicks and his wife, Laurie, plan to donate a portion of the winnings to charity, he said.
"I am fortunate," he shared.
Georgia Lottery retailers selling winning Fantasy 5 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. Cumming Texaco Store #0001 will receive a $3,000 retailer incentive bonus.
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.
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