Friday notes: Local lottery winner, remembering Frank Medico, hoops action tonight

Marvin Gonzalez holds his oversized ceremonial check from the Virginia Lottery.

$100K winner

A Richmond Highway-area man started off 2017 by winning $100,000 in the Virginia Lottery, the agency announced yesterday.

Marvin Gonzalez, who lives in the Route 1 area according to a Virginia Lottery spokesman, purchased the winning ticket at a Safeway in the Mount Vernon Square shopping center on Richmond Highway. Gonzalez was playing 10x The Money, a scratch off game with a top prize of $100,000.

The odds of winning the top prize in 10x The Money are 1 in 1,049,143, according to the Lottery press release. 

Gonzalez told Lottery officials he planned on saving the money. 

Remembrance for Frank Medico

Frank Medico, a former Virginia House delegate from the 44th district and a longtime resident of the Mount Vernon area, is remembered in this week’s Mount Vernon Gazette.

Medico died Dec. 30 at 92. A Republican, he served in the House of Delegates from 1982-1990. Previously he had worked as an auditor for the Government Accounting Office. Medico stayed active in the community long after deciding not to seek re-election at the end of his fourth term, and frequently gave input on local issues to local legislators and newspapers.

Read more on Medico in the Gazette.

Tonight’s basketball schedule

The Mount Vernon girls and boys look to rebound from tough losses to West Potomac earlier this week against T.C. Williams tonight. Edison’s boys and girls are at home in doubleheader action, while Hayfield’s girls and boys travel to Yorktown for a road doubleheader. West Potomac’s squads take on Patriot District foe Annandale. 

Edison boys vs Thomas Jefferson 7:30
Edison girls vs Thomas Jefferson 5:45
Hayfield boys at Yorktown 7:30
Hayfield girls at Yorktown 5:45
Mount Vernon boys vs T.C. Williams 7:30
Mount Vernon girls at T.C. Williams 7:30
West Potomac boys vs Annandale 7:30
West Potomac girls at Annandale 7:30