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Johnston grandmother’s scratch ticket worth $10,000
01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, June 18, 2009
Always wanting to support a good cause, Nancy Lee Bergeron, of Johnston, never says no to the scratch tickets that are sold at Stop & Shop supermarkets every spring in order to raise money for the Jimmy Fund and Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The 62-year-old grandmother of four usually wins something along the lines of a coupon or a free loaf of bread. As a result, she said, she was completely unprepared for the dollar signs that appeared when she rubbed away the coating on a ticket she bought a few weeks ago.
No one in her family could quite believe it either when she called them to say that her $1 scratch ticket was actually worth $10,000. “I reached my husband at work and he wanted to know if I read the fine print,” Bergeron said Wednesday. “I told him I know how to read a ticket.”
It took a few weeks to process the win, but on Wednesday corporate officials from Stop & Shop, representatives from the Jimmy Fund and family members gathered at the supermarket branch on Greenwich Avenue in Warwick to applaud Bergeron as she received a check for her winnings.
Although that was the locale the Quincy, Mass.-based supermarket chain chose for the celebration, Bergeron had actually purchased her ticket at the Stop & Shop in Richmond where she shops with her daughter.
“It’s a win-win situation,” Bergeron said, noting that she always supports the fundraising effort, even if she has to dig around for loose change to buy a ticket or two. According to Stop & Shop, this year’s drive, which was conducted throughout New England, raised more than $5 million for cancer treatment and research.
The $10,000 ticket was one of three Bergeron bought on April 17 and it wasn’t the only winner. She said she also won a free 32-ounce bottle of white vinegar.
She hasn’t gotten around to claiming that yet.
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