Friday, October 13, 2000
Friday, October 13, 2000 |
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Wrapper a $100,000
winner By JOHN
MUNFORD A local youth is cashing in on his hunger after unwrapping a candy bar that made him a $100,000 winner. You can bet Nicholas Evans of Peachtree City won't forget eating that Snickers bar back in August while playing the Braelinn Golf Course after school with some friends. Feeling a twinge of hunger, the 16-year-old junior at Starr's Mill High School bought the bar from an honor concession stand in someone's backyard. For the rest of the round, golf didn't matter. "We all talked about the wrapper," Evans said. One friend tried to convince Evans that he wasn't actually a winner. But a reading of the fine print inside the wrapper at home revealed otherwise. "I'm just happened to look, and I'm glad I did," Evans said. Evans' friends "think I'm the luckiest person ever," he admits. "We all think that, too," said his mother, Karen. Evans got a $99,000 check in the mail this week to supplement the $1,000 check Snickers had mailed him originally due to a glitch. He plans to buy a used Toyota 4-Runner and invest almost all of the rest of the proceeds. The investment idea came from mom and his father, John. Though he wanted to spend more of the money after buying a car, Nicholas sees the rationale for saving up. "I'd like to spend more than they want me to, but I'll probably be better off down the road when I get older," he said. "Maybe someday he can put a down payment on a house if we play it right," Karen Evans said.
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