It couldn't have happened to a better guy
And I mean that quite literally. I've heard my friend Hugh Leach called a gentleman's gentleman. The shoe fits him perfectly.
If you paid any attention to the Lansing State Journal in its heyday, you no doubt saw Hugh Leach's byline. He already was a reporter when I joined the LSJ staff in 1977. He retired in 2008; I followed suit four years later.
As you can see, Hugh ran into some good luck recently - a $2-mill prize on a scratch-off ticket. As he told the Michigan Lottery folks, his habit was to buy one $20 scratch-off every two weeks:
"When I saw I matched '02' for a $2 million prize, I thought: 'Wait a minute. This can’t be right.' I looked the ticket over a few more times and then said to my wife: 'I think I just won $2 million!'"
Answering the obligatory questions posed to a new millionaire, Leach listed a new lawnmower among the first things he planned to buy.
That's our boy.
