District Government Lottery Pool

Congrats to a group of six District Government coworkers who won $10,000 with POWERBALL on Dec. 3, 2011. "That morning, I was about to quit the group," said Ron Tate. The group has been playing as a pool for many years, and Tate said that he was just about ready to give up when his colleague Angela Nickens-Watson called him on a Sunday morning to tell him that they'd won. "You have to believe," Nickens-Watson said. Victor Nwabueze claimed the prize for the group who correctly matched four white ball and the POWERBALL to win the $10,000 prize. They purchased their winning ticket at Penn Branch Liquors, 3232 Pennsylvania Ave., SE. When asked how they plan on spending their prize money, the standard answer was, "Christmas gifts."