Ashton woman claims $200,000 prize
An Ashton woman has claimed $200,000 in winnings from a Triple Golden Cherries Scratch Lottery ticket.
Teresa Stone showed up at the Idaho Lottery office in Boise with a homemade tee-shirt that said, “Believe.” She bought the ticket from the Maverik Store at 1st North and 2nd South in Rexburg after work last Thursday.
“I bought a couple in the morning and neither of them won,” explained Stone on why she returned later in the day to the same store to try again. “I just believed one of the next couple of tickets would be a winner, so I went back after work and bought two more. The first won $25 and the second was this one!”
“You gotta believe!” exclaimed Stone when she received her winning check. Stone says she plans to pay off bills and support her family with her winnings.
The Maverik store will receive a $20,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. Since 1989, proceeds from Idaho Lottery sales at this Maverik store in Rexburg have contributed over $1.5 million to benefit public schools in Madison County.
