$500,000 Lottery winner in Cyrus,Minnesota

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$500,000 Lottery winner in Cyrus,Minnesota

07/29/08 Cyrus Resident Wins $500,000 Lottery Prize.
Belinda Dokken hits the MN lotto for $500,000.
I saw a match on the bottom of the ticket,” she recalled.
I kept looking at it, thinking, ‘I’m not doing this right.’”
Dokken said she showed the ticket to the other patron and the
bartender and asked them, “You see what I see, don’t you?”
Dokken handed the ticket to the bartender and asked her to check it on the Lottery terminal, which generated a message that she needed to contact the Lottery. The bartender said, This is big, Belinda. Dokken claimed her prize at Minnesota Lottery headquarters in Roseville.

This winning lotto ticket was sold by Waters Edge on S. Highway 29 in Starbuck, Minnesota.