Columbia Falls woman wins $25,000
Hungry Horse News | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 6 months AGO
A woman in Columbia Falls recently won a $25,000 top Scratch prize from the Montana Lottery.
Trisha Fauth was playing “Frogger” with a ticket purchased at Town Pump in Columbia Falls.
A regular Powerball player, Fauth said she also buys one Scratch ticket a month and this is her first big Lottery win.
When she scratched away to reveal a $25,000 win on Saturday, Oct. 19, she couldn’t believe her eyes or her luck.
“I thought I had to be reading it wrong,” she said.
Fauth took her winning ticket back to Town Pump and had them double check it was a winner. It was.
“The whole store freaked out, too,” she said.
Before she bought her winning ticket, Fauth and her family put a down payment on a new car. They plan to pay the car off with her Lottery winnings.
The Montana Lottery was created by referendum in 1986. Since then, it has paid out more than $459 million in prizes and returned more than $204 million to the state.
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