After more than four decades of playing the lottery, a Chatham man has one million reasons to smile following a recent MaxMillions win.
Retiree Clifford Manley won the cash through a $1 million MaxMillions prize in the Aug. 16 Lotto Max draw.
Manley has been playing the lottery for more than 40 years, playing Lotto Max, Lotto 6/49 and Lottario weekly, using numbers he chose years ago.
“I took my ticket to the store to have it validated, and when it was scanned, the lottery terminal froze. I thought I had broken it,” Manley said in a media release. “I stood in the store saying, ‘Oh no!’ and gave my heart a pep talk: ‘Don’t you give up on me just yet!’ I shared the news with my wife, and she was just as shocked as I was.”
Manley has yet to decide what he will do with his winnings.
The winning ticket was purchased at Charlie’s Variety on Keil Drive South in Chatham.
