ALEXANDER COUNTY MAN CLAIMS POWERBALL PRIZE WORTH $200,000

Oct. 15, 2007 ALEXANDER COUNTY MAN CLAIMS POWERBALL PRIZE WORTH $200,000

Unplanned Purchase Results in $150,000 Prize for Jackson County Couple -

RALEIGH- Eddie Kirby of Taylorsville said he and his family stopped to get gas Saturday night
about five minutes before the cut-off time to buy North Carolina Education Lottery (NCEL)
Powerball tickets for that night’s drawing.

I went in and got the tickets first, Kirby said today when he visited the lottery’s headquarters
with his family. I watched the drawing when we got home and wrote down the numbers. My
daughter started calling them (numbers) out to me. That’s when I told my wife we had won.

The Kirby’s said they will pay bills, start a college fund for their daughter, and save.
A total of 33,257 North Carolina Powerball players won $446,956 in prizes Saturday. The
Powerball jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing is worth an estimated $20 million.
Lynn Dillard and her husband were nearing the end of their vacation at Sunset Beach on
Thursday and running out of things to do. So the couple decided they would head to the nearest
Food Lion to buy a book.

We couldn’t find one so instead we bought lottery tickets, Mrs. Dillard told lottery officials at
headquarters on Friday. The couple ended their vacation a day early to go to Raleigh to cash in
a ticket worth $150,000! They are the first to win the top prize playing the new instant scratch-off
ticket Triple Money Mania.

Dillard, who is a retired principal from Cashiers, said she was in shock and disbelief when she
discovered they had won. She said they will put the money into their retirement savings account
and pay for their grandson’s education.

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