Mark Morgan had no idea that Sunday, March 12, would be the luckiest day he’s had in years. But when the Spring Hill resident won Unity in the Community’s annual Florida Strawberry Festival car raffle, he couldn’t help but share his good fortune.
Mark Morgan bought four tickets on Sunday, March 5, with three in the names of his mother, father and brother — all of whom celebrated their birthdays that day. When Mark Morgan and his wife, Sheila, accepted the keys to a brand new Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport at Stingray Chevrolet on Tuesday, March 21, it was announced that the script was flipped. The Morgans instead elected to turn one car into three, fulfilling a promise he made to his three daughters.
“Everyone was like, ‘You didn’t take the car?’ No, my kids are more important than the car,” Mark Morgan said.
The Morgan sisters — Shara, enrolled at Kenyon College, and twins Adria and Briana, at Springstead High School — are getting hooked up with a Chevrolet Spark car and two Chevrolet Trax SUVs.
“This is just unbelievable,” Mark Morgan said.
Continuing a trend, this year’s raffle was Unity in the Community’s most successful yet. Stingray Chevrolet owner Steve Hurley, along with his wife, Susan, and Mayor Rick Lott, revealed that the 2017 contest raised a total of $222,000. That brought the raffle’s lifetime total of funds raised for the charity to $1,052,000 in less than a decade.