lands $6.9-million prize in state lottery

Buckley's Mike Kolisch is a man of few words. But the quiet 35-year-old is Washington's latest multi-millionaire. The heavy equipment operator won $6.9 million with Lotto over the weekend and says he's still in shock.

&#8220My partner I work with was in there to buy a ticket right before me and didn't buy it. I bought five bucks worth of tickets and headed home,” recounts Kolisch. &#8220I found out this morning (Monday) from the same guy there was a winner at the Milk Barn, and I checked my ticket after that and now he doesn't believe that I'm the winner.”

A single father of three, Kolisch says the he was sitting at a stop light on state Route 18 Monday morning and talking to his partner on the cell phone about the winning numbers. &#8220He was reading the numbers. He read the first two and I read the last four off,” Kolisch said.

What was his friend's reaction? &#8220I can't say,” laughed the polite Lottery winner.

Kolisch said he's still in shock and describes winning the $6.9 million prize as &#8220no big deal.” In terms of spending the prize, Kolisch would only say, &#8220Family comes first.”

The winning ticket was sold at the Milk Barn Grocery and Deli in Snoqualmie.