An Iron
City man is celebrating a lottery win. Willie
McKinney, 50, played the Georgia Lottery instant game
Mighty Mega Bucks and won a $100,000 top prize.
Iron
City Convenience Store, 111
S. Church St. in Iron
City , sold the lucky ticket. McKinney scratched
the ticket as soon as he left the store.
“I told a friend
that was riding with me that I’d won, and he didn’t
believe me,” he said. “When I put the ticket in his
face, he believed me.”
The
father of two said he has plenty of gifts to buy this
holiday season.
“I feel good,”
McKinney exclaimed. “I deserved that
ticket.”
Since its first year, the Georgia
Lottery Corporation has returned over $9.5
billion to the state of Georgia for education. All
Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for specific
educational programs including Georgia ’s HOPE
Scholarship Program and Georgia ’s Prekindergarten
Program. More than 1 million students have received
HOPE, and more than 850,000 4-year-olds have attended
the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten
program.
