HOME ON THE RANGE - WITH $232 MILLION!
12 June 2009
23-year-old South Dakota rancher wins $232
million jackpot
One of the biggest undivided lottery jackpots in US
history totalling $232 million has been won on a stake
of $15 by a battling 23-year-old rancher near the town
of Winner, South Dakota.
Neal Wanless told
Associated Press this week that he intends to buy
himself more room to roam and repay the kindness other
townspeople have shown his family. The young bachelor
lives with his parents on the family’s 320-acre ranch
near Mission, where they raise cattle, sheep and horses.
They don’t own a phone,their mobile home was repossessed
last year, and records show they have fallen $3 552
behind in their property taxes, so the windfall will be
more than welcome.
Wanless bought $15 worth of
tickets to the May 27 30-state Powerball drawing at a
convenience store in Winner during a trip to buy
livestock feed. He will take home a lump sum of $88.5
million after taxes are deducted.
The Wanless
home lies in Todd County, home to the Rosebud Sioux
Tribe. It was the nation’s seventh-poorest county in
2007, according to the Census Bureau.
Wanless
told lottery officials that he spent the last week
working on the ranch and that he intends to continue
that lifestyle, albeit on a larger piece of land.
And he intends to show his gratitude to the
community: “My family has been helped by the community,
and I intend to repay that help many times over,”
Wanless said.
The store where Wanless bought the
winning ticket will get a $50 000 bonus. Sharon Ulmer,
manager of the store, said she is glad the Wanless
family won.
“From what I understand they don’t
have a lot, so the money definitely went to a good
place,” Ulmer said. “I know it went to a good home. They
can use it.”
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