Governor Joins PA Lottery and Turkey Hill to Kick Off Powerball Sales.Assignment & News Editors MIDDLETOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2002 Governor Mark Schweiker will join 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. and Turkey Hill stores to kick off the first day of Powerball(R) ticket sales in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (pĕnsəlvā`nyə), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States. It is bordered by New Jersey, across the Delaware River (E), Delaware (SE), Maryland (S), West Virginia (SW), Ohio (W), and Lake Erie and New York Thursday, June 27, 2002, at a special media event. The event will be held at the Turkey Hill location at 4850 Union Deposit Road in Harrisburg. Turkey Hill Minit Markets is a division of Kroeger. Turkey Hill's "Turkey Hilda" and the Turkey Hilda Van will be at the store throughout both media events. Planning to join Governor Schweiker are Secretary of Revenue Larry P. Williams and Lottery lottery, scheme for distributing prizes by lot or other method of chance selection to persons who have paid for the opportunity to win. The term is not applicable when lots are drawn without payment by the interested parties to determine some matter, e.g. Executive Director Robert Mars III between 4 and 6 p.m. Turkey Hill President Darel Pfeiff also will be in attendance to welcome customers. The public is invited to stop in and be a part of this exciting event. Powerball(R) tickets officially go on sale statewide at 5 a.m. Thursday, June 27. Players may purchase Powerball(R) tickets at Turkey Hill Minit Marts and at all of the same licensed, Pennsylvania Lottery retail locations where they now purchase their other on-line (computer terminal-generated) Pennsylvania Lottery game tickets - The Daily Number, BIG 4, CASH 5 and Super 6 Lotto. Powerball(R) drawings are conducted twice weekly - every Wednesday and Saturday. The first Powerball(R) drawing for Pennsylvania Lottery players will be the Saturday, June 29, 2002, drawing. [pilcrow (paragraph sign)] All six television stations that currently air the live nightly night·ly adj. 1. Of or occurring during the night; nocturnal: the cat's nightly prowl. 2. Happening or done every night: the physician's nightly rounds. Pennsylvania Lottery drawings at 7 p.m. also will carry the Powerball(R) drawings. Powerball(R) drawings will air at 11 p.m. eastern time. WGAL-TV Channel 8 in Lancaster will broadcast Powerball(R) drawings for the Harrisburg area. Powerball(R) players select five numbers from 1 to 49 plus one number - the Powerball - from 1 to 42. Players bet one play for $1 and tickets may be purchased up to seven days in advance. Players may select their own numbers using a Powerball(R) play slip or they may opt for quick picks. Players must match all five numbers drawn plus the Powerball number to win the jackpot. There are nine ways to win, including the top jackpot prize. Powerball features an option called "Power Play," an enhancement to this already-popular game. For an additional dollar per Powerball(R) play, players can turn their Powerball(R) play into a Power Play, and get a chance to multiply mul·ti·ply v. 1. To increase the amount, number, or degree of. 2. To breed or propagate. their non-jackpot winnings up to five times. During every Powerball(R) drawing, a number between 1 and 5 is randomly chosen. This chosen number is the factor by which all non-jackpot winnings are multiplied mul·ti·ply 1 v. mul·ti·plied, mul·ti·ply·ing, mul·ti·plies v.tr. 1. To increase the amount, number, or degree of. 2. Mathematics To perform multiplication on. . If any of the player's numbers match the winning numbers and they had purchased the Power Play option, the established Powerball(R) prize amount (except the jackpot) will be multiplied by the Power Play number. Prizes can multiply up to $500,000 with Power Play! For example, if you bought the $1 Power Play and matched three numbers and the Power Play number drawn is 5, your original $7 prize is multiplied by the Power Play number of 5 to $35. If the player matched 5 white ball numbers, the $100,000 prize would multiply to $500,000! Players simply ask for a Power Play when they purchase their Powerball(R) tickets. Powerball(R) jackpot winners have up to 60 days after they file a claim for their prize to decide whether or not they want cash or an annuity annuity: see insurance. annuity Payment made at a fixed interval. A common example is the payment received by retirees from their pension plan. There are two main classes of annuities: annuities certain and contingent annuities. . Claims for Powerball(R) jackpot prizes must be filed at Pennsylvania Lottery headquarters in Middletown, Dauphin Dauphin, town, Canada Dauphin (dô`fĭn), town (1991 pop. 8,453), SW Man., Canada, on the Vermilion River. It is the retail and distribution center for an agricultural, lumbering, and fishing area. County. 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 $12.2 billion to programs that have expanded to include property tax and rent rebates, free and reduced-fare transit for older Pennsylvanians, a co-pay Co-pay A type of insurance policy where the insured pays a specified amount of out-of-pocket expenses for health-care services such as doctor visits and prescriptions drugs at the time the service is rendered, with the insurer paying the remaining costs. 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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