Cheese worker says there was a rub to $208 million jackpot

[Carol]

September 28, 2006
FOND DU LAC, Wis. -- The 100 cheese company workers who won a Powerball jackpot worth $208.6 million tried a number of things to increase their luck -- and finally won when they rubbed the belly of a small statue of the Buddha.
''We don't know if it was this Buddha that brought us luck. We don't know if it was our prayers to God that were answered,'' said Mary Entringer, who organized the pool. ''We have no idea, we're just grateful.''

Entringer, 55, said workers on the second shift at the Sargento Cheese plant in Plymouth pooled their money for three years before they bought the winning ticket to the Aug. 5 drawing.

The winners, who call themselves the ''100 Miracles,'' turned in their ticket Friday. They have hired a lawyer and plan to split the prize equally.

They spoke Wednesday morning at Ma and Pa's Grocery Express in Fond du Lac, where they bought the ticket.

The grocery is along the so-called ''Miracle Mile,'' a street where several stores sold multimillion-dollar tickets during the 1990s

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