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COWORKERS IN HEBRON SHARE $200,000 POWERBALL PRIZE
September 28, 2009
Debra McIntosh of Hebron was on her lunch break last Thursday afternoon at work when she overheard on the news that a $200,000 Powerball ticket had been sold at the Hebron Corner Mart. She thought to herself, ‘Hey, I bought my ticket there’, but continued to eat her lunch and didn’t think anymore about it.
On her way home, she and her husband stopped by the store to check the tickets she and her nine coworkers bought together. Debra walked into the store and scanned them on the self checker. Debra told lottery officials she received the message, ‘see retail clerk’.
She scanned it again and said, “Oh my God”, and ran outside to get her husband. They went back inside and got a printout of the winning numbers. He began reading them off as she looked at the ticket. Realizing she was holding a ticket worth $200,000, she looked around the store. She noticed there were signs up everywhere informing people that the store had sold a $200,000 Powerball ticket. “I pointed to the signs and yelled, ‘That’s me! I’ve got that ticket’”, Debra said. She didn’t stop to talk to anyone and ran out of the store and got in the car.
Next, she and her husband immediately started calling everyone in her group to let them know they had won. “Nobody wanted to believe us; they thought we were playing a joke on them”, Debra said.
The 10 players work together at the Duro Bag Designer Division in Richwood. They have been playing Powerball together for years, some for 12 or 13 years. They chose to pick their own numbers and have been playing the same ones since the group was formed. The winning numbers for the September 23 rd drawing were 7-8-20-25-29 and the Powerball number was 11.
Debra told lottery officials that the money will be of great use to many of the winners in her group. One of her coworkers has been off from work due to a surgery and his wife has been very sick. He will need the extra money to supplement his lost income and to pay medical bills.
Brenda Malott of Union, who traveled with Debra to Louisville to pick up their winnings, had always told her grandson that she would take him shopping if she were to ever win the lottery. She said he had already asked when they could go to Wal-Mart.
Each member of the group received $13,800 after taxes.
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