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The Boston And Los Angeles Meetups Are Next Week, So Get Tickets Now!

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Tickets now on sale for NRA"s Great American Outdoor Show

Fairfax, Virginia – We are pleased to announce that tickets for the new Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg, PA are now available online at GreatAmericanOutdoorShow.org.

Held February 1-9, 2014, the Great American Outdoor Show is the largest sports and outdoor show in the country, celebrating the hunting, fishing, and outdoor traditions treasured by millions of Americans and their families. The 650,000 square foot Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex will feature nearly 1,100 exhibitors, including shooting manufacturers, outfitters, boats, RVs, hunting and fishing retailers, and much more.

To celebrate the 2014 Great American Outdoor Show, the NRA has reduced ticket prices from the levels of the previous Harrisburg Sport Show. Admission is as follows:

• Adult: $ 12.00


• Child (6-12): $ 6.00


• Senior (65 or older): $ 10.00


• 2-Day Pass: $ 20.00


• Group Pass (10 or more people): $ 10.00

“Outdoor enthusiasts eager to attend the biggest outdoor show of the year can now secure their tickets,” said Kyle Weaver, Executive Director of NRA General Operations. “With the NRA bringing evening entertainment and interactive displays to an already amazing event, the 2014 Great American Outdoor Show will be something every attendee and exhibitor will never forget.”

This year’s show features a packed schedule of NRA Country concerts, speaking events, a Friends of NRA banquet, archery competitions, seminars, and demonstrations that will continue long after the exhibit hall closes each day. The show will also expand the presence of firearms, including Modern Sporting Rifles, with the addition of a shooting sports section that will join the traditional hunting, fishing, archery, camping, and boating areas.

To purchase tickets for the Great American Outdoor Show, visit GreatAmericanOutdoorShow.org.

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Tickets now on sale for NRA"s Great American Outdoor Show

Lottery Legend Has Seen A Lot Of Winning Tickets

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In this 2011 photo, Tennessee Education Lottery President and CEO Rebecca Paul Hargrove and her finance officer, Andy Davis, stand after completing a presentation to a state Senate task force in Nashville.

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In this 2011 photo, Tennessee Education Lottery President and CEO Rebecca Paul Hargrove and her finance officer, Andy Davis, stand after completing a presentation to a state Senate task force in Nashville.

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Life took a dramatic turn last week for 16 co-workers from a New Jersey town hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. The employees of a government garage in Ocean County reportedly have one of three winning tickets in the $ 448 million Powerball jackpot announced Wednesday.

Will their lives change for the better? Or will they end up like many lottery winners, losing the money, their relationships and their for sense of self?

Ask Rebecca Paul Hargrove. She’s a lottery legend, but not because she hit a big jackpot. Hargrove is president and CEO of the Tennessee Education State Lottery Corporation, and before that, she launched the lotteries in Florida and Georgia in the 1980s and ’90s.

“I’ve met hundreds of winners in my almost-30 years in the business, and what I’ve found is people really don’t change much,” Hargrove tells Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin from her hometown of Nashville, Tenn. “If they were unhappy before they won, they’re still unhappy. If they saved money before they won they still save money.”

They pay off bills, buy a house and a car, perhaps take a grand vacation. But most, she says, “they say to me, the best thing about winning is security for their children’s future.”

Interview Highlights

Do lotteries prey on lower income people who can’t really afford to play week after week?

“I think that is one of the myths that has been perpetrated year after year after year after year. Let’s just take Tennessee. We did close to $ 1.4 billion last year. There are about 6 million people in the state. And you take the number of people over the age of 18 and divide it into a billion four, and it just can’t be poor people who are buying. The numbers don’t work. People from all walks of life buy tickets.”

Why do lotteries have such universal appeal?

“The last Gallup poll I read said that 76 percent of the population of the United States thought a lottery was a responsible way to raise needed revenue, as opposed to raising your taxes. And it’s a fun way to raise those needed revenues.”

In many states the money is earmarked for education. Is that how it gets actually spent?

“In the states where it goes to education, absolutely. But it funds different types of education. In Illinois, the common school fund when to K-12 education. And sometimes as has been the case in other states where dollars went to K-12 education they became replacement dollars, rather than enhancement dollars.

“In 1992, when then-governor Zell Miller ran for governor, he wanted to bring a lottery to Georgia that made a difference. That was the beginning of what is now very famous, and that’s Hope Scholarships. You graduate from a Georgia high school with a B average, and the lottery pays your way to school, tuition, books and fees. So when Tennessee started their lottery 10 years ago, and they saw what a difference it made in higher education in Georgia, they copied the Georgia model. So it’s pretty special.”

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Lottery Legend Has Seen A Lot Of Winning Tickets