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North Jersey Restaurant Owner Wins $1,000 A Week For Life
A Passaic County restaurant owner is celebrating the Easter Sunday of a lifetime.
Jay Shortway won $1,000 a week for life from New Jersey Lottery, with a ticket he bought on Sunday April 9, from his own restaurant.
Shortway's Barn, which has been operating in Hawthorne since 1933, was closed for Easter, but Shortway was working to ensure everything was in order for the restaurant's reopening on Monday, lottery officials said. While in the restaurant, Shortway purchased a CASH4LIFE ticket for himself and put in his wallet, lottery officials said.
On Monday, April 10, a representative from N…