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Hellertown Business Owner a Big Powerball Winner

A Hellertown business owner along with two other local residents are the winners of a $291 million Powerball jackpot, according to the Florida Lottery.

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Barry Bartakovits (right) and James Stocklas (center) hold a check representing their Powerball winnings along with a Florida Lottery official Friday. A third local resident will also share the prize.

Barry Bartakovits (right) and James Stocklas (center) hold a check representing their Powerball winnings along with a Florida Lottery official Friday. A third local resident will also share the prize.

A Hellertown business owner along with two other local residents are the winners of a $291 million Powerball jackpot, according to the Florida Lottery.

Barry Bartakovits, who owns Barry Bartakovits Custom Pools and B&B Pools in the borough, will share the prize with the purchaser of the winning ticket, Bethlehem’s James Stocklas–a Northampton County senior judge–and an unidentified woman. Use with modafinil may cause nervousness, shakiness, and a fast heartbeat http://buymodafinil.org/where-to-buy-modafinil-online/

“I occasionally play the lottery back home and when I’m in Florida,” Stocklas said, according to a Florida Lottery news release which indicated he bought the winning ticket Monday.

After vacationing there last month, Stocklas was back in the Lehigh Valley Friday when he said he “pulled up the news on my phone and saw a headline about a Florida POWERBALL winner. I got my POWERBALL ticket out of my wallet to check the numbers, and sure enough, I was the jackpot winner!”

Stocklas then said he bought breakfast for everyone in the restaurant and called his friends and family to say, “‘We are going back to Florida!'”

According to Florida Lottery and Powerball officials, the winning ticket purchased by Stocklas was the only one to match Wednesday’s Powerball numbers: 12, 13, 44, 52, 62 and 6.

The winning ticket was sold at a Tom Thumb convenience store in Marathon, in the Florida Keys.

Channel 69 reported that the three winners chartered a private plane to fly to Florida Friday to claim their winnings in Tallahassee.

Stocklas, 67, chose to receive the winnings in a one-time, lump-sum payment in the amount of $191,470,307.58, the Lottery news release stated. Phentermine is related to a group of drugs known as amphetamines, and it s prescribed for short-term use to treat obesity http://phentermineonlineguide.net/

Bartakovits is a native of the Saucon Valley area and well-known to many for his support of local charitable organizations and sponsorship of community events.

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Josh Popichak

Josh Popichak is the owner, publisher and editor of Saucon Source. A Lehigh Valley native, he's covered local news since 2005 and previously worked for Berks-Mont News and AOL/Patch. Contact him at josh@sauconsource.com.

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