Robeson ready for first lottery sales
Friday, March 31st, 2006
By Chris Fitzsimon
RALEIGH - The tickets are in the mail.
The North Carolina Education Lottery sent out more than $70 million in scratch-off tickets Tuesday to 5,000 retailers eager for the start of the game Thursday. The deliveries were among the final chores that must be completed before the state becomes the last on the East Coast to add a state-sponsored lottery.
“I’m confident that all we have left now is to throw the switch,” lottery Executive Director Tom Shaheen said.
Shaheen and more than 160 lottery commission employees have been working nights and weekends over the past several weeks to meet the Thursday deadline. Nearly all of them will get sizable bonuses if they succeed, including $50,000 for Shaheen.
Lottery vendor GTECH has about 200 of its workers in North Carolina installing ticket terminals and training retailers in what the company calls the fastest startup in lottery history - 58 days from its hiring to Thursday.
“We’ve got a lot of tired people around here,” said Shaheen, who hoped to get his colleagues out early Tuesday evening before what will be longer days today and Thursday. “People have been working all kinds of hours.” (more…)
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