One lucky California Lottery player has $10 million reasons to enjoy the first day of summer thanks to a winning Scratchers ticket sold at a local shop.
Barley Bin Liquor, a family-run corner store in Whitter, sold the winning ticket, California Lottery officials announced Friday.
The store, run by brothers Raymond and Tony Boulos, will receive a $50,000 bonus for selling the ticket. They told lottery officials that the money would be reinvested into the store that their father, Leon, first purchased decades ago.
“I see adults that I used to know as children,” Raymond Boulos told lottery officials. “They were 8 years old, and now they are in their 30s. It’s the kind of place that people, once they come here, they never leave.”
The winner of the $10 million prize has not yet been publicly identified and must complete the California Lottery’s standard claims process.
The big win is the second major lottery prize sold by Barley Bin Liquor this year. In March, a customer won $750,000 from a Mystery Crossword Scratchers ticket — the first top prize the Boulos family had seen in the store’s history.
Since the California Lottery began in 1985, California’s public schools and universities have received over $46 billion in funding.
