Smyrna Dealership Gives New Car to Lottery Winner

Staff Report

A middle Georgia man has won an impressive vehicle from a second chance promotion courtesy of the Georgia Lottery. Jack Myers, 43, was selected as a winner of the Jackpot Series Second Chance Promotion, winning a brand new 2015 Kia Optima EX.

Georgia Lottery representatives presented Myers with the keys to his shiny, new red vehicle Friday at Ed Voyles Kia, 2145 South Cobb Parkway SE in Smyrna.

A rental car service agent, Myers said that the possibility of winning a new car attracted him to play the instant game.

“When I got the phone call, I was stunned,” he said. “I kept saying, ‘Thank You, Thank You’ over and over.”

The lucky lottery winner said that the sedan is his first new vehicle.

“It feels great,” Myers exclaimed.

Jackpot Series is a new family of Georgia Lottery instant games with prizes ranging from $50,000 to $3 million.

Ticket prices for the games are $1, $2, $5 and $20.

Players can enter non-winning Jackpot Series tickets online for a chance to win a 2015 Kia Optima EX.

For more information about the games and second chance promotion, visit www.galottery.com/jackpot.

Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $16.5 billion to the state of Georgia for education. All Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for specific educational programs, including Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia’s Pre-K Program. More than 1.7 million students have received HOPE, and more than 1.4 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.