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An Old Friend Brings Good Fortune to Sisters; York County Sisters Split Lottery's CASH 5 Jackpot.


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MIDDLETOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2001

Patricia (Pat) Gladfelter, 62, of Spring Grove Spring Grove may refer to:
  • Spring Grove, Illinois
  • Spring Grove, Indiana
  • Spring Grove, Minnesota
  • Spring Grove Township, Minnesota
  • Spring Grove, Pennsylvania
  • Spring Grove, Virginia
  • Spring Grove, Wisconsin
 was the winner of the Pennsylvania Lottery's CASH 5 jackpot prize on March 23, 2001.

She will share the winning ticket with her sister Tammy Moser, 41, of Dover. The winning jackpot ticket for that night's drawing was worth $283,678.00. The winning CASH 5 numbers were 02-10-16-18-33.

Mrs. Gladfelter will receive her check from the Pennsylvania Lottery The Pennsylvania Lottery is the state lottery of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It was created by the Pennsylvania Legislature on August 26, 1971 and that October, Henry Kaplan was appointed as its first Executive Director. The Lottery premiered on March 7, 1972.  on Friday, April 27, 2001, at 1 p.m., during a formal presentation at Bob's West End News, 639 West Market Street, York, where the ticket was purchased.

The Lottery's Director of Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most  Sally Danyluk and District Lottery Representative Debra Schrom will present Patricia her check, less 28 percent federal withholding.

Pat plays CASH 5 daily, however, when she was at Bob's West End News, an old friend of hers, Ralph Johnson
For other people of the same name, see Ralph Johnson (disambiguation)
Ralph E. Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
, was purchasing his Lottery tickets. He turned to Pat, handed her a CASH 5 Lottery ticket. Ralph said, "This is for Tammy and you." Pat used to own the store and Ralph was a customer of hers for years.

Her sister, Tammy, worked for her and when Pat sold the store over a year ago, Tammy continued working for the new owner.

Pat asked her sister to hold the ticket. The morning after the drawing, Tammy checked the CASH 5 ticket at Bob's West End News. She was stunned stun  
tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns
1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow.

2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise.

3.
 when she found out that they won a six-figure prize. Tammy double-checked the ticket with the winning numbers posted at the store. "It was 7 a.m. at the time and I called my sister and woke her up," Tammy recalls "Pat didn't believe me at first."

Pat's husband, Phillip, wants to purchase a Ford Taurus Not to be confused with Ford Taunus.

The Ford Taurus is currently a full-size, front-wheel drive or all wheel drive automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in North America.
 and she would like to donate to the Spinabifida Association. Tammy and her husband, Russ, plan to take care of some bills and take a cruise. The Mosers have two teen-aged sons.

As for Ralph, the sisters are trying to do the same in return for him. "Now we buy Lottery tickets for him and hope that he will win," says Pat.

The Pennsylvania Lottery remains the only state lottery A game of chance operated by a state government.

Generally a lottery offers a person the chance to win a prize in exchange for something of lesser value. Most lotteries offer a large cash prize, and the chance to win the cash prize is typically available for one dollar.
 that designates its proceeds to benefit older citizens.

Since inception 29 years ago, the Lottery has provided $11.6 billion in programs that have expanded to support property tax and rent rebates, free and reduced-fare transit for older Pennsylvanians, a co-pay prescription drug prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug,  program (PACE and PACENET) and the 52 Area Agencies on Aging, including 650 full- and part-time senior centers, located throughout the Commonwealth.

Players must be 18 years of age or older.
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