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Northwestern Iowa lottery player hits big prize twice

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April 16th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

CHEROKEE, Iowa (AP) — Don’t tell Clark Voge, of Cherokee, Iowa, that lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice. The Sioux City Journal reports that the northwest Iowa man has hit two $30,000 lottery jackpots in as many months. Voge claimed a $30,000 prize Wednesday from a scratch-off ticket. He did the same thing just a month earlier. Both winning tickets were bought at Sparky’s, a convenience store in Cherokee.

The Iowa Lottery says the odds of winning the jackpot on that scratch game are 1 in 120,211. Voge says he plans to save most of his winnings.