COLUMBIA, SC – Seeing is believing for one lucky man who held a winning lottery ticket in his hands! “I looked at the ticket and then I rubbed my eyes, then I looked at it again,” said Willie Sherman.

Minutes before, the Orangeburg man bought the $10 Money Tree lottery ticket at Quick Pantry #35 in Orangeburg. He scratched the ticket in his truck parked outside the store and discovered he had won the game’s top prize of $250,000. The next day Sherman took the winning ticket to the Columbia Claims Center to cash it.

What are his plans for the prize? He looked down at his worn steel-toed boots and said “I think I’ll buy a new pair.”