SACRAMENTO – A lucky California Lottery player who purchased a ticket in Fremont for Friday night’s MEGA Millions® draw is more than a quarter-million dollars richer.
Steven Dotson – who “still can’t quite believe” his good luck – says that he plans to pay some bills, buy a convertible and a new truck and put the rest into savings.
The winning ticket was purchased at Mission Liquors, which is located at 39945 Mission Blvd. #8. The ticket matched five of six numbers in the draw, missing only the Mega number, and is worth $296,762.
More than 95 cents of every Lottery dollar is returned to the community in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retail commissions. The California Lottery contributes at least 34 cents of every dollar that players spend on Lottery products to public education and returns more than 50 percent of sales to players in the form of prizes. Since its inception in 1985, the Lottery has contributed nearly $21 billion to California schools out of total sales of nearly $56 billion. Retailers benefit too, earning $3.6 billion in compensation since 1985.