A retiree from Mead Corporation won the $10,000 grand prize of the Shop St Joseph promotion.

The St Joseph Chamber of Commerce introduced Stanley Randall and his granddaughter Jordyn to reporters at the Apple Market Store at 2300 Mitchell, where he received the winning ticket.

Mr Randall says he wound up with dozens of tickets.

“Probably 50 or 75,” he said. “This particular time, that I got these tickets, one of them had a bend in it, and I said ‘see you ruined the tickets, now I’ll never win.”

But he did win. Randally says when he read the winning numbers, he still didn’t believe he’d won, so he called up a local news station and they read him the numbers. He did not tell the rest of his family right away.

“No, actually I figured they’d be so excited they wouldn’t sleep all night, and they had to work this morning, so I didn’t tell them,” Randall said. “Actually right before I came over here, my daughter and one of my granddaughters called and gave me heck for not telling them.”

Randall has three kids, and, in his words, “God only knows how many grandkids.” Upon further thought, he came up with the number of 15 grandkids. He says he’ll buy extra gifts for his family with the money he won.

Mr. Randall worked at Mead from 1967 to 2002 when he became disabled and retired.

The photograph above is courtesy of the St Joseph Chamber of Commerce. Pictured, left to right, are Mike Decker (Apple Market) in the rear, granddaughter Jordyn Randall, winner Stanley Randall, Steve Postalwaite (Apple Market Store Manager) and Todd Euler (Apple Market).

The Chamber is planning to release the “Second Chance” winning ticket numbers later today.