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Just off Highway 50, in a city far, far away, skaters are strapping on the blades and cutting wide circles around Sacramento's newest outdoor holiday rink. Maybe not so far away. It's in Rancho Cordova. It's beautiful. And they won it. Last summer, Rancho Cordovans surprised everybody by racking up more than 2.5 million votes in a nationwide contest sponsored by the venerable Reader's Digest. After weeks of online voting, and outpacing cities much larger -- and much smaller -- Rancho Cordova ended up in first place -- and holding a $40,000 check. Along the way, citizens of this city of 65,000 expressed what they would do with the money if they were lucky enough to win it. In post