An 87-year-old Berks Countian received a commemorative $10,000 check for winning a top prize on a lottery scratch-off ticket.<\/p>\n
Alfred Behney won the prize in the $10,000 a Month for Life Scratch-Off ticket, officials said Friday during the check presentation at lottery headquarters in Middletown.<\/p>\n
Behney, a retired truck driver, said in a release that he likes to frequent Amish or Mennonite farm stands to see what fresh produce he can snag. During those trips, he says he stops by a local gas station to pick up some coffee and a scratch-off tickets.<\/p>\n
Behney said he bought this winning ticket on May 27 at Star Gas & Diesel, 8558 Lancaster Ave., Bethel Township.<\/p>\n
Officials said the retailer will receive a $10,000 selling bonus.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been playing Scratch-Offs for years, especially as a truck driver,\u201d Behney said.<\/p>\n
Behney said he found out he won a top prize after scanning the ticket at the retailer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe clerk and I scanned it and we both just stood there, looking at each other. We didn\u2019t believe it,\u201d said Behney. \u201cI thought, \u2018There\u2019s got to be something wrong.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Behney opted for the annuity option. The cash prize is a lump sum of $1.6 million.<\/p>\n
Behney said he didn\u2019t always live in Berks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI grew up in Schuylkill County where I was an all-star athlete in school,\u201d he said, adding that he also served in the Army after the Korean War.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s not all.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 1961, I signed a minor league contract with the Detroit Tigers in Montgomery, Alabama,\u201d he said. \u201cI made $300 a month. My parents had to send me money. But it was such a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 87-year-old Berks Countian received a commemorative $10,000 check for winning a top prize on a lottery scratch-off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,28,128,130,129,231,706],"class_list":["post-217643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-schuylkill-county","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}