Clovis Woman Wins $50,000 New Mexico Lottery Prize

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7/9/2010 8:54:21 AM - ALBUQUERQUE – Gloria Bock won a $50,000 prize from the New Mexico Lottery playing a Scratcher game based on rock entertainment legend Aerosmith.

On Wednesday, the Clovis resident bought the $5 “Aerosmith®” game while waiting for her husband to join her for lunch at the Kripple Creek Restaurant. She discovered the prize underneath the first of the game’s 20 symbols.

“I didn’t believe it,” she recalled for lottery officials in Albuquerque. “I told one or two people and it spread across the whole restaurant.”

Bock said that by the time her husband arrived, all the other diners were watching for his reaction.

“But he didn’t act too excited,” Bock said. “I don’t think he believed me.”

Bock bought the “Aerosmith” game not because she’s a fan, but because the game was running low in the dispenser and she thought good fortune might be lingering there.

“I’m pretty lucky,” Bock said. “I’m a positive thinker.”

Since becoming a lottery retailer in 1996, the Kripple Creek Restaurant has sold eight lottery tickets paying prizes between $1,000 and $15,000.

“It pays to eat at Kripple Creek Restaurant,” Bock joked.

Two other Clovis residents recently won Scratcher prizes. Peggy Gravel hit a $1,700 prize and Bobbye Bailey won $1,000.

Lottery Beneficiaries in Curry County

Since 1996, the lottery has raised $442.7 million for education and more than 61,000 students have attended college on Legislative Lottery Scholarships.

As of the Spring 2009 semester, 1,600 high school graduates and GED recipients from Curry County have received $4.9 million in Legislative Lottery Scholarships.