BOISE – A Wallace man who has been down on his luck lately has had a big change of fortune.
Bruce Baraby was in Boise today to claim a $250,000 prize he won on the Idaho Lottery’s Idaho Millions scratch game.
“Wow. That will pay off the house, the truck, a few bills,” said Baraby after he was handed his winning check. “This just couldn’t have come at a better time.”
Work has been hard to come by for Baraby who works in the mining industry in the small, northern Idaho community of Wallace located about 15 miles from the Montana border.
After buying the ticket, Baraby kept it in his lunch pail for a few days before remembering to scratch it. When he did, he didn’t believe it was a big winner at first and put the ticket right back in his lunch pail where it stayed for a couple of days until he checked and confirmed it was the big winner at the store where he bought his ticket.
Baraby bought his winning ticket at HICO in Wallace. For their part in selling the winning ticket, HICO received a bonus from the Idaho Lottery for $20,000.
Baraby’s big winner is the first of six $250,000 top prizes in the Idaho Millions game to be claimed. Baraby is the 9th largest Idaho Lottery winner from northern Idaho since the Lottery began in 1989. His wife Debbie came to Boise with him to claim the prize.
