Word: dicksons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...town needed a miracle. And over Thanksgiving weekend it got one. With a mixture of shock and gratitude, Roby residents learned that 39 of their own had won more than $1 million each in the Texas state lottery. They belonged to a pool of 43 people organized by Peggy Dickson, 48, a bookkeeper at the town's cotton gin. Each wagered $10, enabling the pool to buy 430 tickets. The one that won paid $46.7 million--that's $54,255.81 a person each year for the next 20 years, or roughly $40,000 after taxes. Dickson had never before organized...
BORN: Sept. 30, 1958, Scranton EDUCATION: Yale U, B.A., 1980; Georgetown U, J.D., 1986 FAMILY: Wife, Michele; one child RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 241 Main Avenue, Suite 103, Dickson City...
...Gina's story is fodder for TV and movies because there's lesson in there," said Curtis M. Dickson, Grant's uncle, who watched the program. "(The protagonist of the episode) killed again, but that's not Gina. She would never do that...
...Dickson said he believes an important aspect of the show's story line was that juvenile criminal records are sealed. He said he thinks most juveniles with sealed records do not commit crimes again and go on to become productive citizens...
...long term, the future of the Coop was shadowed somewhat," said Dickson, who has been on the board for more than 15 years. "It could've on bankrupt it would have happened in the next few years...