JACKMAN -- A $600,000 Powerball lottery ticket was sold at Bishop's Store this weekend.

No one had claimed the prize by early evening Monday.

"We sell a lot of tickets to Canadians," said Ray Levesque, who owns the store with his wife, Lorraine. "Probably it's sitting in Old Orchard Beach right now. Hopefully, they'll pick it up on their way back. Time will tell."

Many Canadians travel to southern Maine and spend summers in the area of Old Orchard Beach. Jackman is less than 20 miles from the Canadian border.

Lorraine Levesque said the sign that is automatically programmed by the Maine State Lottery Commission was flashing the winner Monday morning.

"I think it must be a Canadian, because we haven't heard anything," she said.

Rich Sperlazzi, marketing manager for the Maine State Lottery Commission, said the winner has a year to cash in the winning ticket.

"Expired, unclaimed prizes go back to the players in the form of promotions," he said.

Sperlazzi said winners once were selected from ping-pong balls in a container, but he is not sure it is still done that way.

He said the drawing is "done at 11 p.m., but we don't know until 2 a.m. When we came in this morning, we got the report there was a winner. The message then goes out to all the terminals in the stores."

Darla L. Pickett -- 474-9534, Ext. 341

dpickett@centralmaine.com