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August 25, 2009
 When Garrison Johnson of Richmond won $100,000 in the Virginia Lottery’s Cash 5 game, he had a special reason to be happy – and it had nothing to do with the money.
Mr. Johnson’s daughter passed away in 2000, leaving him with two grandchildren to raise. Since then, whenever he has played the Lottery, he has used numbers corresponding with his daughter’s and grandchildren’s birthdays. On August 12, those numbers won $100,000 in the Virginia Lottery’s Cash 5 game.
He bought the winning ticket at the 7-Eleven at 2525 Broad Rock Road in Richmond. The winning numbers were 6-8-10-23-28.
Mr. Johnson told Virginia Lottery officials he intends to use his winnings to pay bills and set up trust funds for his grandchildren.
Cash 5 drawings are held daily at 1:59 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. The chances of winning the $100,000 top prize are 1 in 278,256.
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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