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August 21, 2009
 Sandra Carney of Chesapeake was bored. It was a slow day at work. Someone told her she should give the Virginia Lottery’s Stacks of Cash game a try.
“I said, ‘Okay, I’ll try it,’ never dreaming it would be a winner.”
The ticket won the top prize of $150,000.
She bought the ticket at Cedar Road Amoco, located at 1260 Cedar Road in Chesapeake. Ms. Carney told Lottery officials she plans to use the winnings to help her family.
Stacks of Cash is one of dozens of Scratcher games offered by the Virginia Lottery. This is the first ticket to win $150,000 in Stacks of Cash, which means there are nine top-prize-winning tickets yet to be claimed.
Nearly 95 cents of each dollar spent on the Virginia Lottery by players goes back to the Commonwealth in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retailer commissions. Since 1999, all Virginia Lottery profits have been designated solely to K-12 public school education in the Commonwealth. In that time, the Lottery has turned over more than $4 billion for Virginia’s public schools. The latest annual profits of $455 million currently represent about 6 percent of state funding for public education in Virginia. In 20 years, the Lottery has sold more than $20 billion in tickets, awarded more than $1 billion in retailer commissions and paid more than $10.9 billion in prizes to players.
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