Ganado resident wins in Brookshire Bros. game
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When Ganado resident Sue Sims received news she’d won big money, she thought it was a scam. Her husband Eddie even said “I’ll believe it when I see the check in your hand.”
She checked with Donald Janik, the manager of Brookshire Brothers, who sponsored the Hometown Celebration game Sue had played over the preceding months. He reported he had heard nothing about a winner from Ganado, and when she looked up the number that had called her, it was out of Canada. She became pretty convinced she’d been scammed after she had sent them her Social Security number. She even prepared her husband for it.
“I told Eddie that the Lord had been good to us and provided for us. If it was a scam, all it would do is mess up our credit.”
Soon, however, Janik called her. The calls were not, in fact, scammers. Sue really had won $100,000.
“I didn’t really believe it. It didn’t feel real,” she said, “Not until I was standing up there with the check.”
The contest gave out everything from free in-store items, to cars, to monetary prizes, and nobody won the game for the top prize, so a drawing of the online participants was held, and Sue’s name was drawn out.
Sue, a retired bank teller who attends First Baptist Church in Ganado, did with the money what any good Christian woman would do.
“God got his share,” she said, “I took the first $10,000 to my church. It’s already cleared the bank. I wanted it to be the first thing to come across the bank statement.”
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