ATLANTA – Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $173 million after no one matched all the winning numbers in Saturday’s drawing.

Two Georgia Lottery players matched four numbers plus the Powerball number Saturday, winning $10,000 each. The lucky tickets were purchased in McDonough and LaFayette.

The Powerball jackpot has been growing since Lithonia resident Kathy Scruggs won $25 million in the Sept. 14 drawing.

Powerball offers two payment options: the $173 million jackpot prize paid over 29 years in 30 graduated payments, or the cash option, which is approximately $105 million.

Powerball tickets are $1 per play.

As with all other Georgia Lottery games, proceeds from Powerball will benefit education in the state of Georgia.

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ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will hold an appreciation ceremony for more than 180 Atlanta-area music teachers Friday evening.

The teachers will be recognized at 7 p.m. by ASO president Stanley Romanstein. Afterward, the instructors will attend the evening's concert featuring the music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov and Mussorgsky.

ASO cellist Joel Dallow will also receive a special award from Romanstein for his arts education advocacy work throughout Georgia.

Both the 8 p.m. concert and the preceding reception will take place at the Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree Street NE, Midtown.

Keep Cobb Beautiful is partnering with Keep Smyrna Beautiful, Keep Marietta Beautiful and Keep Powder Springs Beautiful to host a Document Shredding Day 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Oct. 22. The event is free and an excellent opportunity for residents to securely dispose household papers. Each car is limited to 100 pounds of documents to be shredded and only paper products will be accepted. The event locations are:

• Keep Cobb Beautiful:
  Piedmont Church, 570 Piedmont Road, Marietta
• Keep Smyrna Beautiful:
  Wolfe Adult Rec Center, 884 Church St., Smyrna
• Keep Marietta Beautiful:
  Marietta city limits, 591 N.