CNA wins in GA lottery

1 post · started Apr 24, 2009

cougarnurse Apr 24, 2009, 3:37 AM
This is something! Local nursing assistant wins $1 million in Georgia lottery game 042209 - The Augusta Chronicle

A certified nursing assistant is catering to a $1 million lottery win. Jennifer Barton, 52, won a top prize playing the Georgia Lottery instant game Extreme Green, according to a press statement.

According to the Georgia Lottery, she purchased her ticket at Discount Stop Food Mart, 545 Sand Bar Ferry Road in Augusta. Ms. Barton, a resident of Aiken, S.C., said that she had an urge to play and scratched her ticket in the store.

“I started shaking,” she told lottery officials. “I was so nervous.”
A grandmother of six, Ms. Barton and her husband, Wilbert, have three adult children. She told lottery officials she intends to pay off bills with her winnings.