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BUHL COUPLE CLAIMS $1,000,000 LOTTERY PRIZE
January 2, 2009
Boise – Gregg Owen left for the Ridley’s Food store in Buhl the day before Thanksgiving with a grocery list from his wife Cathie that included all the trimmings for a holiday dinner, plus what turned out to be two very important items.
“At the bottom of the list it said 2 Raffle tickets,” said Owen. “She gave me the $20 to get two tickets, so I stopped and picked them up. It was the best $20 investment we’ve made.”
Gregg and Cathie Owen were the winners in the 2008 edition of the Idaho Lottery’s $1,000,000 Raffle. Their winning number, 102,813, was selected on Tuesday night, December 30, 2008 from a pool of 250,000 tickets. The couple, life long residents of Buhl and the Magic Valley, arrived late on New Year’s Eve at Lottery Headquarters in Boise to claim their prize.
“We had two sequential tickets,” explained Connie, who works in Twin Falls as a Medical Assistant for St. Luke’s. “When I checked the numbers on-line at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night, I read the first ticket - 102,812 and couldn’t believe we’d missed the big jackpot by just one number. That’s when I looked at the second ticket and realized we had the next one in order, number 102,813.”
“There was a lot of excited screaming and hollering in the house,” added Gregg, an employee of Clear Springs Foods. “I just stared at the computer screen and couldn’t believe it. We must have checked those numbers a thousand times in a lot of different places to be sure.”
“I didn’t see the announcement show for the winning numbers, but I watched the video of it on the internet over and over and each time the final number ended with our ticket number,” confessed Cathie.
The excited couple did not have any immediate plans for their winnings, other than paying for their sons’ college tuition over the next couple of years and perhaps adding a gate on the lane leading to their house. Wisely, the Owen family was planning on meeting with an accountant and financial advisor to discuss their options.
Ridley’s Food and Drug in Buhl was excited they sold the winning ticket to a local customer. For their part in selling the winning ticket, Ridley’s will receive a bonus from the Idaho Lottery for $20,000.
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