Six years ago, Lichine's Liquor at 7101 South Land Park Drive (at 13th Street, just north of Florin Road), sold a $5M California Lottery ticket. Saturday they sold one of the two winning tickets for the $9M jackpot. Lichine's ranks 10th in the state in gross lottery ticket sales. Word has it that a regular customer walked in today to check his numbers with no clue at all that he was a winner. Minutes later he was on track to receive 26 annual payments starting at $113K and increasing to a final payment of $229K.

Since the lottery began, there have been 107 winners of $1M or more in Sacramento County.

Who's going to be next?

Gillian Parrillo
The Sacramento Executive