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(Seguin) -- A Seguin resident has officially signed and deposited his or her multimillion dollar check.
The resident, who on Sept. 30 hit the Lotto Texas jackpot of $47 million is said to have picked up his or her check at the Texas Lottery Commission. That person, however, has elected to
remain anonymous.
According to lottery officials, the cash value option was selected at the time of purchase leaving the claimant with an actual prize of $39,767,339.23. The winning ticket matched all six of the numbers drawn. Those numbers included 4-11-16-19-27-30. The ticket was purchased
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Seguin lottery winner claims multi-million-dollar prize
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Guadalupe County gives COVID-19 update
By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera at Pic N Pac 10, located at 109 Highway 123 (Seguin) – Guadalupe County N. Bypass next door to Taco Bell. continues to keep tabs on its The winning prize reportedly started as a $5 positive COVID-19 numbers. million estimated annuitized jackpot on Jan. 18 and rolled a record three times before it An update on the pandemic was shared during Tuesday’s was won by the Seguin resident. meeting of the Guadalupe At the time of the Sept.30 drawing, the County Commissioners Court. $47millionjackpot was the second-largest lottery prize up for grabs in the world and As of Tuesday morning, the was the largest Lotto Texas prize available county reported 25 confirmed to play for since the May 29, 2010 drawing cases. Its list of data also shows when the game boasted a $97 million 3,779 recovered, 44 deaths, 321 probable cases and an overall jackpot. This is the first Lotto Texas jackpot winner total of 4,171. of more than $30 million since the May16, 2018 drawing, when a $30.25 million Patrick Pinder, the Guadalupe emergency estimated annuitized jackpot prize was County management coordinator, says claimed by a Houston resident. the county has been able to Unfortunately, however, due to changes in audit and remove additional state legislation, the owners of Pic N Pac cases due to duplicates. He nor the cashier who sold the individual the says the county, however, is winning Lotto Texas ticket will receive any still working with the Texas Department of State Health percentage of the cash prize. Services in trying to make The next Lotto Texas drawing will be held sense of all the numbers. Wednesday, Oct. 21. The advertised jackpot prize for the drawing is set at an estimated “Everyday, we get new cases, so we are just double checking annuitized $6.25 million.
making sure that they are not duplicated. That’s the main thing right now. That’s what we are focusing on so. I know there are still over 400 pending cases so that’s 400 cases that are not even on this list -- that haven’t been assigned to one of these jurisdictions. I talked to the state last week or actually yesterday (Monday) and they said that they are trying to get to those counties that have high number of pending cases. The higher ups at the state want those to be vetted a little bit quicker and we are one of the counties that has one of the higher pending cases that need to be vetted faster,” said Pinder. In his update to the commissioner’s court, Pinder was asked about the status of school districts across the county. Pinder says while there have been cases at all the districts, the numbers have either been low or manageable. See COVID, page 3
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