SACRAMENTO – A grocery store worker could soon be seeing with 20/20 vision and be able to buy his mother a new home after winning a MEGA Millions prize worth more than a half-million dollars.
Mark Fleisher, who works at Vons, won $555,415 by matching five of six numbers in the June 5 MEGA Millions draw, missing only the Mega number.
Fleisher said that he intends to spend the money to get Lasik surgery and to buy a new home for his mother.
Fleisher bought the ticket at Dana Drugs, located at 317 North Pass Avenue in Burbank, threw it in the glove box and forgot about it until several days later. When checking the ticket Saturday morning at the retailer, he didn’t believe the on-screen message telling him the ticket was a winner.
Perhaps after Fleisher pays for corrective eye surgery, he’ll more readily believe what he sees.
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.