Lottery winner buys Fort Myers business

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justxploring — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:53:54 GMT

Well, maybe things will start to improve around here, but many businesses are shutting their doors in the areas mentioned in the article. So I wish him a lot of luck success. It's great to hear about someone investing the money he won back into the community. He certainly won't have any trouble finding people to fill job openings! Why anyone would want to open up a store in Lehigh is beyond me, but what do I know?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/us/08lehigh.html

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Halle99 — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:08:44 GMT

I wish him all the best.

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Tenaj — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:18:56 GMT

LOL

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time*treat — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:53:18 GMT

Congrats to the lucky seller of the business.

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EXMECHANIC — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:23:04 GMT

Thanks, I needed that

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ThatScaryChick — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:44:03 GMT

Good luck to him! He sounds like he has a good plan going.

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fwlawrence — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:37:39 GMT

I hope he gets a charge out of his new venture.

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GamerMom — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:12:05 GMT

that is one big dude...

Comment #1

charmed7 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:10:14 GMT

The guy sound like he has his head on right. The battery business should

be successful. Thats something we all need with TV's remote controls....

toys...and the list goes on. It would nice if he could get a contract for

the batteries they plan on putting into the cars.

Lottery winner buys Fort Myers business

Lottery Post — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:45:17 GMT

Joining the ranks of the idle rich is often step No. 1 for the lucky few who win the lottery.

But Jason Fry, 35, has chosen a different path after splitting a roughly $47 million Florida Lottery jackpot in December 2007 with a Bonita Springs man.

First, he spent several months traveling and relaxing after leaving his bartending job. Then he had a plan: rejoin the workforce by becoming a business owner.

That decision became reality last week when he finalized the purchase of the Batterie... [ More ]