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yogi59weedr
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...just got a hell of a New Year's present.
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Northwoodsman
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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.
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Pinetree
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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
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Pinetree
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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.
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yogi59weedr
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Or should I say 1 million of them. Or 50,000 of them if they're twentys.
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Mocha
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it's probably TGO!!!
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billconner
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What a downer if the winner was just a visitor.
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ellahallely
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The guy that won lives and works in Ely. I don't think he is "from" Ely.
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yogi59weedr
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8i also read where he checked his ticket like 8 times then went into work the next day.
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andym
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ellahallely: "The guy that won lives and works in Ely. I don't think he is "from" Ely."
So maybe born in Winton?
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The Great Outdoors
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Mocha: "it's probably TGO!!!"
Well Sheryl, unfortunately it wasn't me but certainly should have been!!!!!!! :)
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lookout1
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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.
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BearBurrito
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Very cool
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GraniteCliffs
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Overnight became the most popular person in town
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Savage Voyageur
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I just love when guest paddlers post.
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ellahallely
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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.
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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.
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tpothen
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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.
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Harv
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Mocha: "it's probably TGO!!!"
It's not BUT if it was...the rich would of only gotten richer! :)
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Pinetree
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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.
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