Top Prize Drawing Winner
Mark Therrien,
Monroe

Monroe... Mark Therrien appreciates a good joke … but not necessarily one that involves money. So when an Ohio Lottery official called to inform him of being the winner of a Top Prize Drawing (TPD) worth $150,000, he wasn’t biting.

“I said, `Get outta here, who is this?’” Therrien said Friday. “I really thought somebody was pranking me. When I realized it wasn’t a joke, I’m glad I was sitting down.” And as long as he was sitting down absorbing the realization that it wasn’t a joke, he took the liberty of figuring up his after-tax take-home. “Let’s see, that’s $103,500 after taxes, I think,” he said.

He’s right. As the winner of the Top Prize Drawing for the $5 Golden Ticket game, 60-year-old Therrien, of Monroe, has some plans for his $103,500. Besides refinancing and paying off a second mortgage, he wants to add re-sale value to his home. “I’ll add a sunroom and finish the basement and make it a family room,” Therrien said. “That’ll add about $40,000 or $50,000 to the value of our house.”

Therrien should know – he works at The Home Depot.

Therrien purchased his Golden Ticket in November 2006, at which time he won an instant $1,000 prize. When he made that claim, he was automatically entered into the drawing for the $150,000 top prize.