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CALGARY â A flood-affected High River resident is among those who won big on this yearâs STARS home lottery. William Rader won a Red Deer show home worth $945,000. âWe were out of our home for almost two months,â said Rader in a news release.âTo hear that we won a house is surreal. Itâs a lot to let sink in.â. Meanwhile, a Lethbridge man with a personal connection to STARS was the winner of a truck and trailer.his was the 21st annual STARS Lottery â it has sold out every year since it began â raising more than $132 million since 1994. The lottery raised over $11 million, with 3,200 prizes worth more than $5.6 million retail. A complete list of winners will be posted on the STARS lottery website on April 4th, 2014.
Tran still has 60 days to decide how to take his prize, the lottery said. He can choose either to receive his half in annuity payments over 30 years, or take his share of the lump-sum cash option, valued at $173.8 million before taxes, it said. Georgia resident Ira Curry, 56, was the other winner. Curry, who claimed her prize a day after the December 17 drawing, took the $173.8 million lump-sum option, which will net her about $120 million after federal and Georgia taxes. Lottery winner gives $40 million jackpot to charity. Tran, who declined to speak to reporters but told his story to lottery officials, bought his winning ticket at a San Jose gift shop and put it in a pile of other lottery tickets that he bought in other towns while making runs as a delivery driver, the lottery said.