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Show Page 8 16, The Dixie Sun 19 May 26, Features Features Editor: Jennie Squire Lotto fever swarms Idaho with Utahns Jacob Santini and Joe Pyrah By Tribune News Services Thursday, some lucky tickin on the Powerball Lottery with a ticket purchased in the little town of Pell Lake, Wis. But a small gas station and convenience store located just north of the Utah-ldah- o border could have just as easily produced the winning jackpot ticket for an Idahoan ... or Utahan. La Tienda is called the home of the Utah lottery," et holder cashed 200 MHz Pentium store owner Kelly Spackman said. "Over 99 percent of our business comes from Utah." La Tienda lies in Cache Valley about one mile past the Utah border in Franklin. Bob Likes, the regional sales representative for the Idaho Lottery, said the store's nickname originated in a Utah paper. The paper ran an editorial cartoon with a drawing of La Tienda with the words Utah's lottery also on the building. "The name just stuck after that," he said. According to Likes, La w MMX Tienda and a convenience store in Malad, another town that Spackman said. "Over 99 percent of our business comes from Utah. " -- Kelly Spackman, store owner just north of Utah, typically sell the first and second most Technology 32 Megs EDO Ram 4.3 Gig Ultra DMA Hard Drive 2 Meg PCI 3D MPEG Video w 15 .28 Nl SVGA Color Monitor Card 24x 16 Bit 3D Sound Card 33.6 Fax Modem with voice Groilers Best of Seven CD Pack 80 Watt Amplified Stereo Speakers $999 CD-Ro- in the state of Idaho. "We normally go one and in two tickets," selling sK-Ma- rt switches SUMMER JOBS!! Part Time Hours Call Today Hardware Printers Repairs Service Software uLL fcSvc2 14 (In the Albertson It La Tienda also sells otb types of lottery tickets beside IAUNI Powerball tickets. They sell pul IDITOR tabs, which peel back to reveal It you win any money, which co: tainm from 25 to 50 cents a piece. Camp They also sell about 10 differ Di ent games called scratch tmen which cost between one ar jdenl five dollars. Du In most lottery states, the' era c biggest seller is the Powerba 3fth tickets," Likes said. "We are just extr the opposite here (at La Tienda; Dr. because we sell more scratchc ig of than Powerball tickets. jious All of the proceeds from thi ag hi lottery goes to benefit publii Th buildings in Idaho and the publi efrie school system. aff's The winner of the 195 mi nat lion, who's name is sti! h unknown, opted for the Jio prof million one-tim- e payoff. Afte1 her taxes, the total dropped to a In ance tie less than $70 million. Thi Fin jackpot is the largest in U.S hi. ence tory. irse. back and forth between the two of us. According to Spackman, customers from not just Cache Valley but people all over Utah visit La Tienda to buy lottery tickets. "A lot of people come to play from Salt Lake and Ogden," Spackman said. "There are also a bunch of faithful customers that come from Cedar City and Fillmore once a month." Because of the amount that was up for grabs, people were lined up 50 deep at times to purchase tickets on Wednesday afternoon. But typically the weekends are busiest, Spackman said. "Friday and Saturday are our big days," Spackman said. "We get people in and out pretty quickly but sometimes we get a little backed up because of a m 799 South Bluff St. big rush." lottery tickets St. George Commercial Center) SERVICES 656-197- Toll Free 301 East Tabernacle 5 KBy Sorwoca 888-656-19- 75 (BnaAUDUATTIIClDRI ! EXPIRES AUG .31 ,1998 Coupon J y Appolnimml 628-717- 1 b An Equal 628-521- 3 Opportunity Employer . sipieciiails MDIAD-- r a n i m a J a 777 E. 700 S. SI. Georg' (Dy Subway Sand.) See n |