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ALBANY MAN MARKS HOLIDAYS WITH $181K WIN
December 2, 2011
An Albany man has struck gold with a Georgia Lottery win before the holidays. Walter Meekins, who celebrated his 55th birthday Nov. 23, won a $181,108 jackpot prize from matching all five winning numbers in the Nov. 8 Fantasy 5 drawing.
He claimed his prize recently at the Georgia Lottery’s District Office in Tifton.
A logistics manager, Meekins used four of his own numbers plus one Quik Pik to create his lucky combination.
“It’s an unusual group of numbers that I usually play in Florida when I go bowling there,” he explained. “I didn’t have my routine numbers, so I played those here instead.”
Winning numbers from the Nov. 8 drawing were: 8-21-27-31-37.
Meekins stopped for a soda at East Side Grocery, 326 S. Mock Road in Albany, where he purchased the ticket.
“The clerk told me to check my numbers,” he said. “I went home and started checking my tickets. I was ecstatic.”
The lucky winner and his wife, Gail, have no immediate plans for their windfall.
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