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September 28, 2009
 If Mitchell Graber of Williamsburg had not gotten hungry and stopped for a bite, he might not have won $150,000 in the Virginia Lottery’s Ace in the Hole Scratcher game.
It happened as Mr. Graber drove home after having his son’s computer repaired. He stopped at Dodge’s Store, located at 13170 Jefferson Avenue in Newport News. While he was there, he bought an Ace in the Hole ticket and scratched it.
“After I scratched it, I just stood there and I looked at it about 20 times!” he later told Lottery officials.
His ticket is the first of four top-prize winners in the Ace in the Hole game to be claimed. Mr. Graber, who works as a truck driver, said he will use his winnings to pay bills.
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 $439.1 million currently represent about 6 percent of state funding for public education in Virginia. In 21 years, the Lottery has sold more than $21.1 billion in tickets, awarded more than $1.1 billion in retailer commissions and paid more than $11.6 billion in prizes to players.
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