A Silver Spring woman is $50,000 richer after purchasing a Family Feud scratch-off at Kemp Mill Beer, Wine & Deli at 1339 Lamberton Drive in Silver Spring. The lucky winner claimed her prize this week after forgetting where she had hid the winning ticket in her home several months back. Full story below courtesy of the Maryland Lottery:
Talk about feeling relieved! A 41-year-old Montgomery County player thought she was running out of time to claim a $50,000 prize on the FAMILY FEUD® scratch-off game. Even worse, she couldn’t remember where she hid the lucky instant ticket many months ago.
But everything turned out fine, with Srijana Wosti celebrating her Lottery luck in the Winner’s Circle at Lottery headquarters this week.
The Silver Spring resident really enjoys playing the scratch-off game and has done so since it arrived at Lottery retailers in April. She is the mother of a new baby and, around June, was out for a stroll in the park when she felt lucky. Srijana stopped inside the Kemp Mill Beer, Wine & Deli at 1339 Lamberton Drive in Silver Spring and purchased one $5 FAMILY FEUD scratch-off.
“I like to watch the show on television,” said Srijana, “and, I like that Steve Harvey.” The lucky lady told Lottery officials she played the game in the store and thought it was only a $50 win. However, when she scanned it later using the MD Lottery app, it showed a $50,000 win.
“I kept scanning it over and over,” said the big winner. “I was so happy.”
Being a married full-time mom of a 2-year-old and an infant keeps Srijana very busy. After sharing news of her good fortune with her family, she hid her lucky instant ticket in a suitcase and forgot about it. This month, when she remembered about cashing it, the loyal player panicked because she thought the last date to claim her prize was fast approaching. And, to top it all off, she couldn’t find the scratch-off! After searching the house for it, she ultimately rediscovered it in her suitcase.
“I was so relieved to find it,” she said, sighing, “and to know I wasn’t too late.” Srijana told Lottery officials that she plans to apply her winnings toward family bills.
The management of her lucky Lottery retailer, Kemp Mill Beer, Wine & Deli, can enjoy some fun from her win, too. For selling a $50,000 top-prize winning scratch-off, the Montgomery County store will receive a $500 bonus from the Lottery.
The FAMILY FEUD scratch-off is still packed with big prizes, including three $50,000 top prizes, two $5,000 second-tier prizes and more than 300,000 others ranging from $5 to $1,000.
A Silver Spring resident won $50,000 playing Pick 5 at the 7-Eleven located at 14430 Layhill Road in Silver Spring. Full story below courtesy of the Maryland Lottery:
A Maryland Lottery enthusiast from Silver Spring has a few sets of lucky numbers he likes to play in the Pick 3, 4 and 5 games, and one of those sets hit for $50,000 in the Nov. 12 midday Pick 5 drawing. The 56-year-old played a straight bet for $1 on the digits 83779 for the win after having a slight change of heart. Typically, he plays it as 38779 but, for this drawing, he transposed the first two digits.
“I listen to my instinct,” he said of the change. In this case, his instinct was spot on. The Montgomery County resident says he will continue playing, always picking his own numbers and taking gut feelings and instincts into account.
“I need a big win!” he said on Nov. 29 while claiming his prize at Maryland Lottery headquarters in Baltimore. With his prize, he plans to pay off his car loan and settle some bills. A celebration also is in the offing, but nothing is planned yet. Sharing in his good fortune is 7-Eleven #20096 at 14430 Layhill Road in Silver Spring. The store receives a bonus of $500 from the Lottery, equal to 1% of the prize, for selling a $50,000-winning ticket in the game.
Per the Maryland Lottery: He buys Powerball tickets frequently, a Virginia truck driver told lottery officials. Maryland Lottery officials, that is! It turns out that a $50,000 portion of the jackpot he’d been seeking in both states was waiting for him on the Maryland side of the Potomac River. “Like everybody else, I had been buying Powerball tickets back home as the jackpot kept getting bigger,” said the 35-year-old. The resident of Lorton, Virginia, purchased his $50,000-winning ticket back in October, more than a week before the Powerball jackpot reached its record-breaking total of $2.04 billion.
Per the Maryland Lottery: A Takoma Park man who purchased a Powerball ticket in the historic Nov. 7 drawing came up $50,004 richer, missing the $2.04 billion jackpot win by only one number. The 70-year-old came into Maryland Lottery headquarters with a great big smile and left still thinking about how he would spend his prize. He was one of eight Marylanders who won third-tier prizes in the drawing, which also generated a $1 million prize for another player in the state.
His lucky Lottery retailer was Check Cash Depot #004 located at 8476 Piney Branch Road in Silver Spring. There’s still time to get tickets for the next Powerball drawing on Wednesday, Nov. 30. The estimated jackpot annuity is $65 million with an estimated cash value of $33.7 million.
A Silver Spring couple that claimed a winning scratch-off lottery ticket worth $100,000 were among the biggest winners last week, according to the Maryland Lottery. The couple purchased the $30 $100,000 Extreme Cash scratch off from the Exxon gas station at 8384 Colesville Road in Silver Spring. Additional details about winners across the state below, courtesy of MD Lottery:
Two Maryland Lottery players claimed prizes of $100,000 each last week on tickets sold in Annapolis and Silver Spring. Meanwhile, another 11 tickets worth $50,000 each were sold last week in Baltimore, Bladensburg, Bowie (2), Dundalk (2), Fort Washington, Parkville and Suitland (3). In all, 29 tickets across Maryland delivered prizes of $10,000 or more during the seven days ending Nov. 27, and the Maryland Lottery paid more than $27.6 million in prizes during that span.
Winners of prizes larger than $25,000 must redeem their tickets at the Maryland Lottery Customer Resource Center in Baltimore, which is open by appointment only. Prizes of up to $5,000 can be claimed at any of more than 400 Expanded Cashing Authority Program (XCAP) locations. All Maryland Lottery retailers are authorized to redeem tickets up to and including $600. More information is available on the How To Claim page of mdlottery.com.
Here is the weekly roundup of big winners:
Scratch-off Prizes Claimed Nov. 21-27:
$100,000 Prizes
- $100,000 Extreme Cash, Colesville Road Exxon, 8384 Colesville Road, Silver Spring
- Ravens X5, Scott Brothers Wine ‘n’ Spirits, 936 Bay Ridge Road, Annapolis
$50,000 Prizes
- $500,000 Crossword, 7-Eleven #24552, 630 West 33rd Street, Baltimore
- FAMILY FEUD®, J Convenience, 8765 Satyr Hill Road, Parkville
$30,000 Prize
- Peppermint Payout, Royal Farms #054, 8268 Lark Brown Drive, Elkridge
$10,000 Prizes
- $10,000 Lucky, German Hill Liquor, 7624 German Hill Road, Dundalk
- Cash Is King, Quiet Waters Exxon, 1000 Forest Drive, Annapolis
- Lady Luck, A-1 Choice, 300 South Jefferson Street, Frederick
- Million Dollar Mega Multiplier, Piscataway Mobil, 9808 Piscataway Road, Clinton
- Million Dollar Mega Multiplier, Sugarloaf Wine Cellar, 12955 Wisteria Drive, Germantown
- Money Rush, AC&T #240, 1701 Dual Highway, Hagerstown
- The Game of Life™, German Hill Exxon, 1300 Merritt Boulevard, Dundalk
FAST PLAY and Draw Game Tickets Sold for Drawings Nov. 21-27:
- $10,000 High Roller Jackpot ticket sold Nov. 23 at High’s #045, 520 East Baltimore Street, Taneytown (unclaimed as of Nov. 28)
- $10,000 Hit The Jackpot ticket sold Nov. 27 at Croom Citgo, 7538 Crain Highway, Upper Marlboro (unclaimed as of Nov. 28)
- Three $50,000 tickets and two $25,000 tickets, all sold Nov. 23 at People’s Convenience Store, 4025 Silver Hill Road in Suitland (all unclaimed as of Nov. 28)
- Two $50,000 tickets both sold Nov. 25 at Bowie Liquors, 6910 Laurel-Bowie Road, Bowie (both unclaimed as of Nov. 28)
- Two $50,000 tickets sold Nov. 23 at Logan Liquors, 3441 Dundalk Avenue, Dundalk (both unclaimed as of Nov. 28)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 23 at Quick Stop Food Mart, 5700 Emerson Street, Bladensburg (unclaimed as of Nov. 28)
- $25,000 ticket sold Nov. 23 at Village Family Mart, 12 North Dundalk Avenue, Dundalk (unclaimed as of Nov. 28)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 23 at Sunnybrook Tavern, 9001 Livingston Road, Fort Washington (unclaimed as of Nov. 28)
- $18,596.40 ticket sold Nov. 24 at Landover Hills Exxon, 6579 Annapolis Road, Landover (claimed)
- $15,397 ticket sold Nov. 26 at Smoking Tree, 6320 Windsor Mill Road, Gwynn Oak (unclaimed as of Nov. 26)
- $12,145 ticket sold Nov. 24 at Essex Liquors, 904 Eastern Boulevard, Essex (claimed)
The Maryland Lottery encourages players to check their tickets by scanning them at any Lottery retailer or with the Lottery’s mobile apps. Draw game winners have 182 days from the date of a drawing to claim their prizes, and scratch-off winners have 182 days from the announced end-of-game date.
Last claim dates for scratch-off tickets are published in the scratch-off section of mdlottery.com.
A couple from Silver Spring picked up a $100,000 prize on the $30 $100,000 Extreme Cash scratch-off game and they plan to put the money toward the purchase of a house.
While claiming the prize Nov. 21 at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore, the two said they had not made any plans for a celebration yet because the win still didn’t feel real. Both are regular players and have won smaller prizes before, including a few $800 hits on Pick 5, but nothing like their $100,000 top-prize scratch-off score. Even so, asked about whether they would continue playing, the husband said, “Of course. I want big money!” His wife added, “He’s looking for millions!”
On the market since Sept. 21, 2020, $100,000 Extreme Cash remains a popular game. It logs in at the No. 19 spot on the Maryland Lottery Top 40 Scratch-Offs list, despite more than 91 percent of all available tickets being sold. Even so, 12 of the game’s initial 64 top prizes at the $100,000 level remain unclaimed.
The couple bought the hot ticket at the Colesville Road Exxon gas station at 8384 Colesville Road in Silver Spring. The business receives a bonus of $1,000 for selling a $100,000 top-prize winning scratch-off.
A Takoma Park man is $50,000 richer after purchasing a winning scratch-off game at the 7-Eleven located at 8101 Fenton Street in Silver Spring. Full story below courtesy of the Maryland Lottery:
An enthusiastic Maryland Lottery player from Takoma Park has won the occasional three- and four-digit prizes, but was taken aback when he checked a scratch-off and realized it was worth $50,000. The 61-year-old player, describing his experience on Nov. 18 when he claimed his prize at Lottery headquarters in Baltimore, said he “almost fainted.”
“I thought it was a mistake,” he said. However, it was the real thing: a top-prize win on the $5 Power Spot Multiplier game. His previous personal-best Lottery scores were in the $250 to $1,000 range. The Montgomery County man plans to share his winnings with his wife and adult children, coordinate a celebration dinner and pay some bills with his prize. After that, he plans to keep playing Lottery games, focusing, as always, on scratch-offs. He says they have “more luck.”
Sharing in the winner’s scratch-off fun is 7-Eleven #22921 at 8101 Fenton Street in Silver Spring. The Montgomery County store management earns a bonus of $500, equal to 1% of the prize, from the Lottery for selling a $50,000 top-prize winning scratch-off.
A Silver Spring man is $50,000 richer after purchasing a winning lottery ticket for the November 5 Powerball drawing at the Upper Marlboro Xtra Fuel at 15009 Marlboro Pike in Prince George’s County. Full story below courtesy of the Maryland Lottery:
Charlie Ayoub is a Powerball fan who plays the game two to three times a week. His loyalty and persistence paid off on Nov. 5, when the Montgomery County resident won $50,000 with a $2 quick-pick ticket.“I have been playing both Powerball and Mega Millions for about 15 to 20 years. I like to play the games with the bigger prizes,” Charlie explained.
The Silver Spring man is a district manager whose job requires him to travel around the region. He estimated that he visits and plays at over 30 Lottery retailers throughout the state. The 58-year-old recently stopped by a local gas station to check his Powerball ticket and learned he won a third-tier prize in the Nov. 5 drawing.
“When I first scanned the ticket, it said $50,000. I didn’t believe it. I thought it was closer to $50,” he said. After multiple scans, the happy player realized Lottery luck had paid him a visit. The winner plans to invest some of his prize, donate some funds to his church and pay off some bills. Charlie is also the father of an 18-year-old and will put some of the windfall toward college expenses.
He bought his lucky ticket at Upper Marlboro Xtra Fuel at 15009 Marlboro Pike. The retailer is located in Upper Marlboro in Prince George’s County.
A $50,000 winning Powerball lottery ticket sold November 7 at the Check Cash Depot at 8476 Piney Branch Road in Silver Spring remains unclaimed as of Tuesday, November 15. The ticket was purchased for last week’s historic Powerball drawing that had a jackpot of over $2 billion. Outside of MoCo, a $1 million Mega Millions ticket sold November 8 at 7-Eleven (9151 Riggs Road) in Adelphi and a $1 million Powerball ticket sold November 7 at One Mile Liquor (6600 Baltimore National Pike, Suite L) in Catonsville have also yet to be claimed. Additional information courtesy of the Maryland Lottery below:
Players across the state won nearly $29.7 million in the seven days ending Nov. 13
As Powerball fever gripped the nation with the jackpot reaching $2.04 billion, Lottery players across Maryland landed 14 Powerball prizes last week ranging from $50,000 to $1 million.
In the Nov. 7 Powerball drawing, after a jackpot roll that lasted for more than three months, a ticket sold in California won an all-time record $2.04 billion. During that stretch of 41 Powerball drawings beginning in early August, the Maryland Lottery sold nearly 1.3 million winning Powerball tickets with prizes ranging from $4 to $1 million, including 41 tickets worth $50,000 or more. At the $1 million level, there were five winners. Players Columbia and Mount Rainier bought tickets worth $200,000 and $150,000, respectively. There were also six wins at the $100,000 level along with 28 tickets worth $50,000 each.
Meanwhile, the Mega Millions jackpot has climbed to an estimated annuity value of $207 million ($102.8 million cash value) for the Tuesday, Nov. 15 drawing, and a $1 million winning Mega Millions ticket was sold last week in Adelphi.
Including the big Powerball and Mega Millions wins, 34 tickets across Maryland landed prizes of $10,000 or more during the seven days ending Nov. 13, and the Maryland Lottery paid nearly $29.7 million in prizes during that span.
Winners of prizes larger than $25,000 must redeem their tickets at the Maryland Lottery Customer Resource Center in Baltimore, which is open by appointment only. Prizes of up to $5,000 can be claimed at any of more than 400 Expanded Cashing Authority Program (XCAP) locations. All Maryland Lottery retailers are authorized to redeem tickets up to and including $600. More information is available on the How To Claim page of mdlottery.com.
Here is the weekly roundup of big winners:
Scratch-off Prizes Claimed Nov. 7-13:
$50,000 Prize
- Cash is King, Forbes BP, 9701 Annapolis Road, Lanham
$30,000 Prize
- Diamond Bingo 3rd Edition, Inglewood Gas / Carroll Fuel, 620 Edmondson Avenue, Catonsville
$20,000 Prize
- Lady Luck, New Food Way, 1501 Broening Highway, Baltimore
$10,000 Prizes
- $10,000 Lucky, Timonium Shell, 2161 York Road, Timonium
- $250,000 Gold Rush, Dutch Liquors, 2325 Cleanleigh Drive, Baltimore
- BETTY BOOP™, Clinton Crossing Exxon, 8915 Woodyard Road, Clinton
- Bingo X10 5th Edition, Royal Farms #193-E, 803 Pinnacle Drive, Linthicum Heights
- Lady Luck, High’s #92, 1329 Defense Highway, Gambrills
- Lady Luck, Weis Market #139, 720 Hanover Pike, Hampstead
- Lady Luck, Sheetz #147, 5 North Third Street, Oakland
- Mega 7s, Pantry 1 Food, 1090 Spa Road, Annapolis
- Money Explosion, Fenton Street Exxon, 8301 Fenton Street, Silver Spring
- Money Explosion, Country Liquors, 531 Jermor Lane, Suite A, Westminster
- Show Me $100,000!, Perryville Liquors, 1486 Perryville Road, Perryville
FAST PLAY and Draw Game Tickets Sold for Drawings Nov. 7-13:
- $100,000 Holiday Money Match ticket sold Nov. 8 at BJ’s Wholesale Club, 413 Constant Friendship Boulevard, Abingdon (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $1 million ticket sold Nov. 8 at 7-Eleven #11716, 9151 Riggs Road, Adelphi (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 12 at 7-Eleven #20096, 14430 Layhill Road, Silver Spring (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $25,000 ticket sold Nov. 8 at Bowie Exxon, 1500 Crain Highway North West, Bowie (claimed)
- $1 million ticket sold Nov. 7 at One Mile Liquor, 6600 Baltimore National Pike, Suite L, Catonsville (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $100,000 ticket sold Nov. 6 at Smallwood Village Exxon, 2010 St. Thomas Drive, Waldorf (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 6 at the Maryland House travel stop on I-95 near Aberdeen (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 11 at Martin’s #6003, 739 Park Street, Cumberland (claimed)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 7 at 260 BP, 2975 West Chesapeake Beach Road, Dunkirk (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 6 at Giant #140, 5815 Eastern Avenue, Hyattsville (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 7 at Walmart #2027, 12500 Country Club Mall Road, La Vale (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 7 at Laurel Liquors, 420 Sandy Spring Road, Laurel (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 6 at Weis Market #180, 9400 Scott Moore Way, Perry Hall (claimed)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 7 at Wawa #555-E, 668 South Salisbury Boulevard, Salisbury (claimed)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 7 at Check Cash Depot #004, 8476 Piney Branch Road, Silver Spring (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 8 at Modern Liquors, 2358 Iverson Street, Temple Hills (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 5 at 7-Eleven #15036, 309 East Smallwood Drive, Waldorf (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $50,000 ticket sold Nov. 7 at White Plains Wine & Spirits, 4425 Crain Highway, White Plains (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
- $22,905.30 ticket sold Nov. 10 at Autumn Grove Exxon, 1801 Autumn Grove Court, Salisbury (claimed)
- $10,228.40 ticket sold Nov. 12 at Royal Farms #193-E, 803 Pinnacle Drive, Linthicum Heights (unclaimed as of Nov. 14)
The Maryland Lottery encourages players to check their tickets by scanning them at any Lottery retailer or with the Lottery’s mobile apps. Draw game winners have 182 days from the date of a drawing to claim their prizes, and scratch-off winners have 182 days from the announced end-of-game date.
Last claim dates for scratch-off tickets are published in the scratch-off section of mdlottery.com.
Over a year ago we let you know that Black Lion Café, which has a location at 9705 Traville Gateway Dr in Rockville, will be opening a new location in the Fenton Silver Spring apartments at 8240 Fenton St in Downtown Silver Spring. Originally scheduled to open on November 1, Source of the Spring now reports that opening has been postponed due to a delay in the cafe’s final inspection. A new opening date has not yet been announced.
The cafe opened its first location at the Traville Gateway shopping center in late 2016. Black Lion Café sources its coffee from three regions of Ethiopia known for producing some of the best tasting coffee beans in the world. Keffa, the region of Ethiopia that gave the name ‘coffee’ to the bean, Yergacheffe, and Harrar.
About Black Lion Cafe: Ethiopia is considered to be the birthplace of coffee. In Ethiopia, over 12 million people are involved in the cultivation and picking of coffee. Coffee ceremony plays an important role in the Ethiopian society. People often gather over coffee for many different reasons, like daily life conversations, for solving social conflicts among neighbors, after church gathering and spending a good time with each other. People around the world travel to Ethiopia to enjoy authentic coffee with a touch of Italian mix because of the historical interactions.
Coming from five generations of Ethiopian coffee growers, we grew up running around family’s coffee plantation in Harar, which is located in the Eastern highlands of Ethiopia. That’s where we acquired plenty of experience with coffee, learning daily lessons about every aspect of coffee growing, harvesting, roasting and brewing. Every cup we serve is a delicious result of our high standards, we devote ourselves to the art of coffee roasting and retailing, moreover we are very passionate to serve and introduce our finest coffee to our community in Rockville.
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10PM Update: According to MCPD, “Officers responded to the back of the 9000 block of Piney Branch Road at approximately 6pm for the report of a shooting. Upon arrival officers located a male that was transported to an area hospital in serious but stable condition. During the investigation, K9 officers located a deceased person in a wooded area. MCPD is on scene and investigating the circumstances surrounding this person’s death.”
8PM Update: Montgomery County Police responded to a shooting in the 9000 blk of Piney Branch Rd in Silver Spring on Monday, November 9, around 6:30pm. According to public safety reporter Cordell Pugh, Montgomery County Police 3rd District Officers aided the victim of the shooting prior to MCFRS arrival. The victim was transported by EMS to an area Trauma Center. We will post an update when more information becomes available. This was the second shooting today in Silver Spring. This morning at approximately 4 a.m., MCPD officers responded to the area of Colony Road and Northampton Drive for the report of shots fired. Officers arrived on scene and located a deceased person, with trauma to the body, to the rear area of the 100 block of Colony Road.
Montgomery County Police 3rd District Officers aided the victim of tonight's shooting prior to MCFRS arrival. Superb work by bystanders and responders rapidly coordinating and making access to the victim through a fenceline. Paramedics transported victim to an area Trauma Center. https://t.co/p3NB8oFfOd
— Cordell (@CordellTraffic) November 10, 2022
