LOTTO FANS SHOPPING FOR LUCK.Byline: Dana Bartholomew Staff Writer ``It's a winner.'' Such was the refrain of hopefuls who bought a SuperLotto Plus ticket Friday betting on today's $68 million jackpot, the ninth largest in California lottery history. And possibly nowhere was there a louder buzz than in the North Hollywood 7-Eleven on Lankersheim Boulevard - the winningest store in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. official lotto lore. ``I will win!'' exclaimed Khan Ganda, 29, of North Hollywood, a native of Pakistan, with 20 lotto tickets in his pocket. ``I will give it to all my friends, buy a big ship, sail all over the world ... I (will) do good things in every port.'' It was a triumphant day when, on Oct. 4, 1999, 14 workers - and three dogs - split a $5.3 million lotto jackpot ticket sold at the Lankersheim 7-Eleven. And it was a momentous occasion when, 10 years earlier, the store sold a $12.78 million ticket. Baga Singh, a beturbaned clerk at 7-Eleven, remembers it well. ``I'm good luck,'' he said Friday, as customer after customer stepped up for a shot at today's big draw. ``This store is lucky.'' The last guy who won, Singh said, ``he came over, he asked me, `Thanks.''' Though the Lankersheim 7-Eleven boasts the top two Valley winners over $1 million, according to lotto officials, lesser ``lucky retailers'' with two winners each include: the Hubbard Street Hubbard Street is a road in Chicago, Illinois named for early settler Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. Where Hubbard Street passes over the Kennedy Expressway, the Expressway enters a tunnel made up of surface streets known as colloquially as "Hubbard's Cave. 7-Eleven in San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. ($10.54 million total); the Glenoaks Boulevard Mercado For the hispanic surname "Mercado", please see de Mercado. Mercado first originated in Spain. In English it means 'market'. Is the last name of the 'Great' Fifa Soccer player Eswold. Del Valle in Pacoima ($8.1 million); and the Nordhoff Street 7-Eleven in Sepulveda ($7.86 million). ``In these cases, lightening lightening /light·en·ing/ (lit´en-ing) the sensation of decreased abdominal distention produced by the descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity, two to three weeks before labor begins. has struck twice or more,'' said California Lottery spokeswoman Cathy Doyle Johnston. ``We call them lucky retailers for a reason.'' ``I won $3 anyway,'' said Gerald Jones, 84, with homes in Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, and North Hollywood, scratching Instant Double tickets. Then, in a nod toward Singh, ``Three more tickets when you get time.'' |
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