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It's not the megamillions, but it's still a lot o' bucks
A Brooksville resident wins more than $77,000 - and change - playing the lottery's Fantasy Five game.
By JEFFREY S. SOLOCHEK, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times
published September 12, 2003
BROOKSVILLE - Hernando County has another lottery winner.
But Ed Aills of Brooksville did not get millions of dollars when he went to Tampa on Thursday afternoon to claim his jackpot.
The prize at stake was one-third of Wednesday's $231,025 Fantasy Five game, or $77,008 - and 65 cents.
While nothing to sniff at, the win did not generate the same type of buzz that occurred when no one came forward June 5 to claim $6-million after buying a winning Lotto ticket at A&H Discount Beverage outside Brookridge.
Customers of A&H tried to guess who won that prize until Patrick A. Jones, 48, of Spring Hill and his wife, Sandra, turned up in Tallahassee in July with the winning ticket. The lawn-maintenance worker, who planned to retire on his winnings, said he spent the month leading up to his acceptance of the money calling clients, telling them to find someone else to cut their grass.
No such talk swirled Thursday over the Fantasy Five win. An employee at the Publix grocery store in Brooksville, where the ticket was sold, said workers there didn't even know a winning ticket had been bought there.
The topic had not come up in conversation at all, she said, and no one had come in to inquire, much less brag.
That might not be surprising, though.
A spokesman for the Florida Lottery said Aills, who picked the numbers 1, 5, 14, 20 and 26 in the daily game, had to go to the agency's Tampa office to receive his prize.
The two other winning tickets in Wednesday's Fantasy Five drawing were sold in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. Also as a result of the drawing, 404 players won $92 by matching four of the five numbers and 11,523 players won $9 by matching three of the five numbers.
Aills does not have a listed telephone number and could not be reached for comment.
- Information from Times files was used in this report.
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