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A Highland Township woman is celebrating a Michigan Lottery Powerball win.
Kathryn Peltier, 55, said her $150,000 prize will be life-changing.
Four numbers on one of her Powerball tickets matched the Sept. 1 winning number as did the 05 in that ticket’s Powerball position, which multiplied her $50,000 win to $150,000.
She bought her tickets online at the state’s website.
“I saw the Powerball jackpot was over $1 billion and thought to myself: ‘You can’t win if you don’t play,’ so I logged into my Lottery account and bought a few tickets,” she said.
The next day she saw an email from the Michigan Lottery telling her to claim her prize.
“I assumed it was a small win, so it was amazing when I logged in and saw $150,000 in my account,” she said, adding that she still wasn’t sure, so she showed a coworker her account balance and asked: ‘How many zeros is this?’ to confirm she was reading it right.
Then she called her husband.
“This prize is going to change our life,” she told officials when she visited the lottery’s Lansing headquarters to claim her prize. She said she plans to pay off the family home and vehicles and put the rest into savings.
Powerball tickets cost $2 each; $3 for the “Power Play” option that multiplies non-jackpot prizes by up to 10 times to a maximum of $2 million and $4 for Double Play, which gives players a second chance to win up to $10 million in the nightly Double Play drawing.
Free confidential help is available for people with gambling addictions and their loved ones via the National Problem Gambling Helpline, (800) GAMBLER or (800) 426-2537.
Powerball drawings are done at 10:59 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday and can be checked online at http://www.powerball.com.
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