Bradford County Woman Wins PA Lottery's CASH 5 Game.Business Editors MIDDLETOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2002 Deborah Reid, 47, of Athens, used the PA Lottery's May Calendar Coupon to save $2 when she purchased seven CASH 5 game tickets. She was shocked to find out, weeks later, that one of those tickets was a winner! Deborah matched all 5 of the 5 winning numbers for the June 6 CASH 5 drawing to win $125,788.00, minus 27 percent federal withholding Withholding Any tax that is taken directly out of an individual's wages or other income before he or she receives the funds. Notes: In other words, these funds are "withheld" from your wages. . Deborah will receive her winnings 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. during a formal presentation Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 10 a.m. at Tops Market located at 1006 N. Elmira St. in Sayre, where she purchased her winning ticket. Presenting the check to Deborah will be Lottery Area Manager, Tom Blaskiewicz and District Lottery Representative, Tom Williams Tom Williams can refer to:
Tops Store Manager, Paul Marshall, and Assistant Store Manager, Tom Knapp, will host the event. This is the first large cash prize Deborah has ever won, and she never expected to win the jackpot. In fact, Deborah never even checked the numbers on her CASH 5 tickets! She is a regular instant games player, and she says she posts all of her tickets on the refrigerator until they accumulate Accumulate Broker/analyst recommendation that could mean slightly different things depending on the broker/analyst. In general, it means to increase the number of shares of a particular security over the near term, but not to liquidate other parts of the portfolio to buy a security and she finds time to claim her prizes at a retailer. Deborah was short on cash one day and decided to redeem redeem v. to buy back, as when an owner who had mortgaged his/her real property pays off the debt. The term also refers to paying the amount due and all charges after a foreclosure (due to failure to make payments when due) has begun. her tickets. When the clerk ran her winning CASH 5 ticket through the machine, he said, "Well, you're not short on cash any more!" Deborah, thinking she had won "maybe a hundred dollars," couldn't believe it when the clerk told her the value of her prize was over $125,000! Deborah and her husband, Thomas, are the proud parents of seven children, and they are also the grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl of seven granddaughters. When Deborah left to redeem her assortment of tickets that day in June, she told her husband that she would give him whatever she may win to help pay for a new entertainment system receiver he had just purchased. Her winnings covered that expense with some to spare. The couple also plans to pay off bills and save the rest for retirement. To play CASH 5, players select five numbers from a field of one to 39. Each game is just $1. Players may select their own set of numbers or have a "quick pick" computer-selection method do it for them. If a player matches two, three, four or five of the numbers drawn that day, he or she is a cash prize winner. 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 its inception 30 years ago, the Lottery has contributed $12.9 billion to programs that have expanded to include 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 Pennsylvania. Players must be 18 years of age or older. |
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