A 59-year-old lifelong resident of Bullville, hit a $5,000 Instant Jackpot in the North Carolina Lottery on Friday.
James August was admitted into the hospital Nov. 16 for emergency abdominal surgery. While a patient at the ECMC, August played a scratch-off ticket purchased by his daughter and won. “What a wonderful thing to happen! It’s been a difficult week, and this has lifted our family’s spirits,” August’s wife, Darlene said in a statement from ECMC. “Jim could not believe his eyes when he saw the jackpot, and neither could the rest of us,” August’s wife said. “What a nice dose medicine during a long stay in