NEWSROOM: 606.528.2464 FAX: 606.528.9850 4 Opinion E-MAIL: [email protected] TIMES-TRIBUNE / THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2012 A NEWSPAPER HOLDINGS INC. PUBLICATION WILLIE SAWYERS BECKY KILLIAN Publisher Managing Editor [email protected] [email protected] C ONTACT US AT (606)-528-2464 TIMES-TRIBUNE The Times-Tribune (USPS 132-480) is published daily except Sunday, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day by the Times- Tribune at 201 N. Kentucky Street, Corbin, KY 40701. Periodicals postage is paid at U.S. Post Office, Corbin, KY 40701. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Times-Tribune, PO Box 516, Corbin, KY 40702. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: USPS in Tri-County area: one month/$9; three months/$27; six months/$54; one year/$108. All other Kentucky subscription, one month/$15, three months/$45; six months/$90/one year/$180. Outside Kentucky: one month/$18; three month/$54; six months $108; one year/$216. All subscriptions are payable in advance. Experiencing problems with your service? Call us at 606-528-2464. FROM MY WINDOW Hittin’ the road Well, last week on that Monday I had to run to Lexington to pick up DON MCNAY some items that can’t be found in this area. As I drove up I was listing in my mind the places I was to visit. Preaching the lottery winner’s I wanted to keep from getting tied up in Lexington traffic. One was off New Circle Road alongside Carl Keith Greene gospel around the world Nicholasville Road. No problem. Instead of hitting Man O’ War Drive velous town. The only “Where I was born, cash the ticket today. basis. If you make mis- from I-75, I got off at the new building in down- where I was raised. Some people can’t takes and lose all your first I-75 exit and drove all town, the best I can Where I keep all my wait to cash their tick- money the first few the way to New Circle. remember, is a court- yesterdays. et. There have been years, you have 20 or I’ve been on Man O’ house. This is my town” stories about people more future opportuni- War so often, with its traf- It’s a clean town with —Montgomery Gentry camping out in front of ties to get it right. fic lights after traffic The Wilderness Road lottery offices over- In some situations, lights and heavy traffic all passing through it. I met my fellow night with the winning there may also be some the way to Nicholasville Just outside town on Kentuckian, Eddie ticket. tax advantages to tak- Road. the north a brand new Montgomery, in the Most lotteries allow ing the money over I made it to New Circle section of U.S. 150 to green room of the CBS you several months or time since you are in good speed, better than Danville and beyond has Morning News in New a year to cash a win- taxed on the money as the Man O’ War trip been built. York. Both of us were ning ticket. The money you receive it. That would have been. Last summer, and I getting ready to make a Don McNay will still be there in a may not be relevant A left on New Circle hope this summer, I used live appearance. month or so. Take with $100 million since and three exits later I was that road to get from It was that kind of some time to figure out that person is always I just hope that near my first stop. I London to Danville’s week. CBS had flown what you are going to going to be in the high- someone is listening to turned onto Nicholasville Pioneer Playhouse and me to New York and on do with the money and est tax bracket. But a my advice. toward town, turned left back. The new road was two hours sleep, I was how you are going to do person who wins one There are five sim- at the first place. Went in under construction then being interviewed on it. million and takes ple rules that about 90 there bought some stuff and now it’s finished. set by anchor Rebecca 3. Work with advi- $50,000 a year might be percent of lottery win- and headed back to New It may drop my travel- Jarvis, a former CNBC sors who work with able to save overall. ners don’t follow... to Circle. ing time by six or seven anchor who had I long more money than you 5. Give back to soci- their everlasting I stopped at a small minutes, but I’m not admired. have. ety. regret. shopping center on the much of a fast driver, any- It was the best inter- There are financial There are many 1. Tell as few people other side of town, the way. view of my life. You can advisors, estate plan- people who have accu- as possible (preferably first section of New Circle Kentucky towns are watch the link at Don ning attorneys and mulated great wealth. no one) that you won. that was built years and interesting. Middlesboro McNay interviewed on trust officers who have Rockefeller and Two of three Mega years ago. is stretched out on a big CBS Morning News in worked with Carnegie in the 20th Millions winners live in Went to a small store flat area in the middle of NYC $100,000,000 or more. Century come to mind, states, (Maryland and there, bought a few other hills that stretch into In 2008, I wrote a The scorekeeper for as do this century’s Bill Kansas), that allow things and headed north- mountains. book called Son of a your local bowling Gates and Warren winners to collect ward on New Circle. Pineville is along the Son of a Gambler: league is not one of Buffett, who are giving anonymously. I hope Stopped at a store Cumberland River with a Winners, Losers and them. People will often away most of their they do. behind Sam’s place and flood wall standing to What To Do When You hire a friend as money during their life- If you can keep your then made it to keep the river from rising Win The Lottery. Which opposed to someone times. People who use jackpot quiet, do so. As Winchester Road to check as it did in the early 1970s topped the Amazon who really knows about their wealth to make an I told Rebecca Jarvis on a small item for a cam- and filling the town with best seller lists in sev- big money. impact on society are during an interview on era, which isn’t made, I water. eral categories last A good friend would far happier than those CBS Morning News found out. Barbourville, one of week. tell you the situation is who use it to show off last Saturday, “Once Turned around and the oldest cities in the Whenever a jackpot too complicated for him to the neighbors. you have told the world went home. I got off at area, also has a flood wall hits record highs, like and help you find some There are at least that you received Richmond and got some- to push back the the Mega Millions lot- real experts. A lottery three people who need money that you never thing to eat at Zaxby’s Cumberland. tery did last week, the winner has tax, estate this advice as soon as expected to have, and headed for the new London has no reason book climbs to the top and financial planning possible. I hope they everyone has his hand I-75 intersection south of for a flood wall, being set of the Amazon charts issues that he didn’t hear it... and follow it. out and you are not Richmond. on the highest place on and I do non-stop have the week before. prepared for it.” Somehow I missed the which the CSX (originally media appearances. I 4. Take the annual Don McNay, CLU, I once told a young, road to it and wound up L&N) railroad passes did over 30 in three payments, not the lump ChFC, MSFS, CSSC single, and publicly- sneaking into Berea. north and south. days. I did more inter- sum. (www.donmcnay.com) known lottery winner Figured while I was on And the nearest good national appearances, Roughly 98 percent is the bestselling that he just became the U.S. 25, I’d continue to sized river, the Little like BBC, than I did of all lottery winners author of the book, Son best looking man in his London. Laurel River, was a good local. Being inter- ignore this advice, but I of a Son of a Gambler: city. He was realistic I enjoy driving through distance from downtown viewed by the continue to preach the Winners Losers and enough to know that downtowns along the way. London when it was Associated Press and mantra. Taking the What to Do When You wasn’t really the case. Mount Vernon and established. Los Angeles Times got payments over time Win the Lottery. You 2. 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