Some give a big chunk of it away. A recent example is the story of William R. “Randy” Smith, former sheriff of Berkeley County, West Virginia. “I feel like the luckiest man in the world,” he said last August, as he claimed his $79 million Powerball jackpot. Less than a year later, The Martinsburg Journal-News reports that Smith has donated $1.5 million to build a new recreation center:
A recreation official said Smith’s donation should be enough to pay for the entire project, except for furnishings. Another compared Smith’s generosity and selflessness to the power of nature. “It's kind of like the snowflake story, where one little snowflake doesn't accomplish a whole lot, but you put enough of them together to form a big storm and you can have a major, major impact,” he said. “It’s like Randy came in with the force of a blizzard wind.”
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