$10,000 winner

November 19, 1990 — Junior Jewell usually goes to Family Convenience in Luray every morning to gas up, buy a couple of doughnuts and get some Virginia Lottery tickets. So imagine Janice Finney’s surprise a couple of Saturdays ago when he didn’t buy any tickets.

And then imagine Jewell’s surprise when he bought a “Big Deal” ticket, scratched it and found three aces, and became $10,000 richer.

“Fifty dollars was the highest we’d given away (on an instant ticket) until now,” Miss Finney said. 

~ From the public archives of the Page News and Courier

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