Ontario Wal-Mart employees Pamela Linville, Aaron Anderson, Eddie Ynigez, Monica Draper and Aaron Oneil each got this week a $200,000 check from the Idaho Lottery Tuesday at the Lottery headquarters in Boise. The all put money to purchase tickets to the Idaho Million Dollar Lottery, which they won last week. Lotteries

The five friends, who met at Wal-Mart, started saving $10 from each paycheck in June 2011. Combined, they purchased 70 tickets, at $10 per ticket. The odds of winning for the group was 70 in 250,000.

O’Neil bought the winning ticket at the Maverik Country Store in Weiser, which received a $20,000 bonus from the Idaho Lottery for selling the winning ticket. Lottery winning numbers

O’Neil said he is planning to pay off some of his bills and complete some of his home remodeling, aside from wanting to make a donation to a local charity that helped his granddaughter.

Draper said she will invest most of her winnings, some will put towards her retirement, a little to pay off some bills and to buy herself a new car since she has been driving the same one for 17 years.

Anderson will pay off bills with his portion of the winnings.

Ynigez was at work the night of the drawing so he was the last to know of the win.

“They called my name over the loud speaker, and told me to come into the manager’s office,” Ynigez said. “I went in thinking I was going to be fired. Instead, they said congratulations!”

Linville is currently working two jobs: overnight stocking in the pharmacy department at Wal-Mart full time and at the Burger King in Payette around 17 hours a week. After this winning, Linville has decided that she will quit her job at Burger King.

“I’ve worked at Burger King 10 years in April. I’ve been at Wal-Mart almost 11 years. I’m kind of excited,” Linville said.

Before knowing about the winning, she was on vacation time from Wal-Mart, but in spite of the winning she is still going back working at Burger King this week.

She put in her two weeks notice at Burger King on Tuesday. She said that when she gave her notice, her manager said that winning the lottery was the best reason for giving two weeks notice that she’d ever gotten.

Although in her plans it was never an option to just walk out the door when she found out she’d won.

“I just can’t, in good conscience, just quit and make other people short-handed, even though I had it happen to me. I knew I couldn’t just chuck it all, so I kept going,” Linville said.

Linville said she finds the experience of being a lottery winner totally unreal. She has played the lottery for years, and the biggest prize she won was $100.

“I kept hoping and dreaming,” Linville said. “I feel like I’m still in a bit of a dream world. The lottery winnings will help me breathe a little easier.”