Jennygirl
04-24-2007, 02:34 PM
By Craig Smith
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
It was the peanuts and pralines at Clyde's Market just outside of Riceboro, Ga., that caught the eye of Jeffery Rose.
But what he got for the lottery ticket he also decided to buy isn't peanuts.
The 52-year-old construction manager from Coraopolis was traveling through Georgia when he stopped for the nuts and bought a lottery ticket for the April 6 Mega Millions drawing with a Quik Pik option.
Rose learned a week later how sweet his hunger for the nuts turned out to be while checking the Georgia lottery's Web site: He was a $250,000 winner.
His ticket matched the winning numbers -- 24, 32, 34, 36 and 39 -- but he didn't have the Mega Ball number of 6.
"I didn't say anything for about four to five minutes," said Rose, who plans to use his winnings to take a trip to Switzerland, pay off some bills and buy a house.
"I am very happy," he said Monday.
Rose's winnings came to $172,500 after state and federal income taxes, lottery spokeswoman Kimberly Lundy said.
Efforts to reach a spokesman at Clyde's were unsuccessful.
Riceboro City Clerk Malinda McIver said there are probably few big lottery winners among her city's 736 residents, but she understands the attraction of Georgia's peanuts and pralines, which she described as a sort of sugar-coated pecan.
"I usually drive to Savannah to buy them," said McIver, who has been city clerk for 25 years.
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
It was the peanuts and pralines at Clyde's Market just outside of Riceboro, Ga., that caught the eye of Jeffery Rose.
But what he got for the lottery ticket he also decided to buy isn't peanuts.
The 52-year-old construction manager from Coraopolis was traveling through Georgia when he stopped for the nuts and bought a lottery ticket for the April 6 Mega Millions drawing with a Quik Pik option.
Rose learned a week later how sweet his hunger for the nuts turned out to be while checking the Georgia lottery's Web site: He was a $250,000 winner.
His ticket matched the winning numbers -- 24, 32, 34, 36 and 39 -- but he didn't have the Mega Ball number of 6.
"I didn't say anything for about four to five minutes," said Rose, who plans to use his winnings to take a trip to Switzerland, pay off some bills and buy a house.
"I am very happy," he said Monday.
Rose's winnings came to $172,500 after state and federal income taxes, lottery spokeswoman Kimberly Lundy said.
Efforts to reach a spokesman at Clyde's were unsuccessful.
Riceboro City Clerk Malinda McIver said there are probably few big lottery winners among her city's 736 residents, but she understands the attraction of Georgia's peanuts and pralines, which she described as a sort of sugar-coated pecan.
"I usually drive to Savannah to buy them," said McIver, who has been city clerk for 25 years.