The Bend store sold the winning $4.6 million ticket
WHO: Oregon Lottery officials
WHEN: Noon, Friday, September 20, 2019
WHERE: Ashley’s Café #2, 1910 NE 3rd St., Bend
WHAT: Oregon Lottery officials will present an over-sized display check to representatives of Ashley’s Cafe for selling the winning Oregon’s Game Megabucks $4.6 million jackpot ticket. Lottery officials will also be handing out a limited number of free promotional Scratch-it tickets at the event.
BACKGROUND: Stu MacDonald of Bend, a two-time cancer survivor, purchases Oregon’s Game Megabucks tickets every week. Each week his wife, Claudia, tells him to purchase the winning ticket. The week of Sept. 7, she forgot to say it, and he won $4.6 million. MacDonald purchased the ticket at the Ashley’s Café #2 in Bend, and the couple said the only thing they were going to do with the prize was having a nice overnight stay in Portland before heading home to Bend.
MacDonald said he is working with a financial planner on how to invest the jackpot. He opted to take the one-time payment and, after taxes, took home $1.56 million.
During the 2015-17 biennium, more than $28.9 million in Oregon Lottery proceeds were directed to economic development, parks, education and watershed enhancement in Deschutes County, where MacDonald lives and purchased the ticket. Since 1985, Oregon Lottery players have won more than $38 billion in prizes.
VISUALS: Oregon Lottery officials will present an oversized ceremonial check to representatives of the Bend Ashley’s Café and will also distribute a limited amount of free promotional Scratch-it tickets to store patrons.
Since the Oregon Lottery began selling tickets on April 25, 1985, it has earned nearly $12 billion for economic development, public education, state parks and watershed enhancements. For more information on the Oregon Lottery visit www.oregonlottery.org
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