(KAIR)--A 19-year old Valley Falls woman plans to use her Kansas Lottery winnings to help pay for college.
Logan Wichman is a criminal justice major at Highland Community College; and, according to a news release from the Kansas Lottery, Wichman became thousands of dollars richer when she recently accompanied her mother on a shopping trip to Topeka.
During that time, she cashed in a $10 winning ticket, and then purchased a $10 Holiday Greetings ticket worth $75,000.
Purchased on a Saturday at the I-70 BP in Topeka, Wichman had to wait until the following Monday to claim her prize at the Lottery's Topeka headquarters.
Putting the ticket first in a fireproof safe, and then placing that into a bigger gun safe at her Valley Falls residence, Wichman, in the release, calls the waiting “a stressful couple of days,” having to take a college final on the morning prior to visiting the Lottery office.
Wichman, who works as a waitress during school breaks and every summer to save for school, says she can now use that time to study instead, earmarking her earnings to help fund her education.
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