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yogi59weedr
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01/02/2019 01:04AM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
...just got a hell of a New Year's present.
 
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yogi59weedr
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01/02/2019 01:05AM  
Or should I say 1 million of them. Or 50,000 of them if they're twentys.
 
GraniteCliffs
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01/02/2019 12:37PM  
Overnight became the most popular person in town
 
billconner
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01/02/2019 02:22PM  
What a downer if the winner was just a visitor.
 
01/02/2019 05:08PM  
billconner: "What a downer if the winner was just a visitor."



Not if it was me.which it wasn't.

Years ago I bought a ticket in Brainerd and the Jackpot was like 100 million dollars. Well I was in Ely just finishing up a canoe trip. Walked into the Holiday Gas station and they were talking about someone in Brainerd won the big Multi million National lottery. Well my ticket was at home,and NO again it wasn't I when I got home.
 
ellahallely
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01/04/2019 07:20PM  
The guy that won lives and works in Ely. I don't think he is "from" Ely.
 
yogi59weedr
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01/04/2019 07:32PM  
8i also read where he checked his ticket like 8 times then went into work the next day.
 
01/04/2019 07:45PM  
it's probably TGO!!!
 
andym
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01/04/2019 08:50PM  
ellahallely: "The guy that won lives and works in Ely. I don't think he is "from" Ely."


So maybe born in Winton?
 
Harv
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01/04/2019 09:40PM  
Mocha: "it's probably TGO!!!"


It's not BUT if it was...the rich would of only gotten richer! :)
 
01/04/2019 10:47PM  
It was in the newspaper so I thought okay to list: Actually some one from Crookston won a million also.

Andy Gibbons, of Ely, Minn., also won $1 million from the lottery game, which has odds of winning the top prize at one to 350,000. Participants could buy tickets from Oct. 23 through Dec. 14.

Gibbons, who bought his ticket at the Voyageur Short Stop convenience store in Ely, claimed his prize Thursday, and Meyer collected her check Friday.
 
Northwoodsman
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01/05/2019 12:16PM  
Pinetree, The young lady that won that lottery was not only a close friend of my brother, but also worked for him. I met her when we were both in his wedding. There was one hell of a story behind the circumstances of her buying that ticket. She was on TV and my brother was with her. My girlfriend at the time called me early the next morning to tell me that my brother was on the national news. The first thing that came to my mind was "OMG, what did he do now?". I turned on the TV and sure enough there he was.
 
01/05/2019 01:59PM  
Northwoodsman: "Pinetree, The young lady that won that lottery was not only a close friend of my brother, but also worked for him. I met her when we were both in his wedding. There was one hell of a story behind the circumstances of her buying that ticket. She was on TV and my brother was with her. My girlfriend at the time called me early the next morning to tell me that my brother was on the national news. The first thing that came to my mind was "OMG, what did he do now?". I turned on the TV and sure enough there he was."


That is really neat.
winner
 
lookout1
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01/05/2019 04:58PM  
I think EllaHally owes the lucky winner an apology and and anyone else
who has lived in N.Mn. I have owned property and pay taxes in over 4
Counties in area. I've lived in Ely for 40 years. I pay for your schools,
roads, etc. Typical Ely local attitude. Give up what drives your barbs.
 
Savage Voyageur
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01/05/2019 05:52PM  
I just love when guest paddlers post.
 
ellahallely
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01/05/2019 06:35PM  
lookout1: "I think EllaHally owes the lucky winner an apology and and anyone else
who has lived in N.Mn. I have owned property and pay taxes in over 4
Counties in area. I've lived in Ely for 40 years. I pay for your schools,
roads, etc. Typical Ely local attitude. Give up what drives your barbs.
"

I don't even live in Ely. I live in the west metro. The winner sounds like a good guy. He went to work after looking at his ticket.


 
tpothen
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01/05/2019 09:19PM  
ellahallely: "The guy that won lives and works in Ely. I don't think he is "from" Ely."


Lookout1 does have a good point. Just because you weren't born there doesn't mean you can't be from there.
 
The Great Outdoors
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01/07/2019 11:01PM  
Mocha: "it's probably TGO!!!"

Well Sheryl, unfortunately it wasn't me but certainly should have been!!!!!!! :)
 
BearBurrito
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01/08/2019 10:13AM  
Very cool
 
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