Howdy’s Gas and Grub in Cascade is no stranger to selling big winning tickets, but this time, the lucky store in the heart of town sold the Motherload!

Longtime resident Ronald Young is a regular Lottery player and buys tickets between Howdy’s and a couple of other stores in town. On a clear morning over the 4th of July weekend, Young stopped in to get a few Scratch tickets, including a $30 Motherload ticket.

“I scratched the bar code and scanned it. It said I had to go to the Lottery,” described Young. “I got excited, got in my truck and took the ticket home. I scratched the rest of it there to see what I’d won. Wooh-wee, it was $300,000! I didn’t really believe it.”

Young said he plans to invest most of it, although he might use a little to support a teenage nephew who’s currently riding on the junior rodeo circuit. As for Howdy’s, they had previously sold two, $250,000 winning tickets. The Motherload is the largest winner for the lucky store at $300,000!