•Patrick Willard of Thomasville is looking forward to early retirment after he won a $250,000 lottery prize.
“This is such a blessing,” Willard said. “This will let me retire in September. Then I can really start enjoying life.”
Willard, a truck driver, bought the winning Carolina Black scratch-off ticket Monday night when he stopped for gas at the Sheetz on Liberty Drive in Thomasville.
“I knew it was going to be cold this morning so I decided to go after work,” Willard said. “Can you imagine what would have happened if I waited until this morning? Someone else would have gotten the ticket.”
Willard pre-paid for his gas and then scratched the ticket while he was still in the store.
“I almost forgot to pump the gas I was so excited,” Willard said. “I showed it to the clerk and said, ‘Tell me if it’s true. Did I really win $250,000?’”
He did win, and he claimed his prize Tuesday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh. After required state and federal tax withholdings, he took home $176,876.
Ticket sales from games like Carolina Black make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $650 million a year for education. For details on how $9.6 million in lottery funds made a difference in Davidson County last year, click on the “Impact” section of the lottery’s website.
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I'm still waiting for the big one. And I will share. Giving if more fun I will Be bless and spend it wisely.and since the question was asked, How many entries to you need to make to win in the second chance drawings or for any drawing and can you win twice? I