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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.7 @& [* e2 W. E
% j2 C) a# K- Z8 BAndrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.! E1 J7 K/ c4 S8 S
3 K u5 j* F% U% q( GIt turns out the couple knew they had a winner the whole time but made a conscious decision not to wait seven months before claiming the enormous prize.
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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.6 W" h7 S" U( e. g) p
6 ]$ n4 j" l' m“We chose not to discuss with people until we knew where we had to be and what we had to do and just get our life in order.”, a- I. @2 n) J5 y
2 S& Q" l1 `- \; x+ G! z9 N+ |* dAndrea bought the Lotto Max quick-pick ticket at Shefield Express in Londonderry Mall on Dec. 20, making the prize the biggest ever won by a ticket sold in Edmonton and the second biggest in Alberta.
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“When I checked the ticket, the first thing I should have had was my glasses, because I didn’t have those with me,” she said. “I had to get the retail clerk there to tell me what was said on the self-scanner.; z) [0 a, z s3 M# \
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“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”
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, k/ K5 l) f% N ]Bill had recently retired from his job as a heavy equipment operator, while Andrea is still working as a project co-ordinator at an electrical firm and was planning to retire in December.
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( ^; j* n1 @. F! f3 T1 aThe couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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$ v' X/ x" X% X6 V0 }Andrea and Bill both say they don’t have immediate plans for spending the money, and that they hope to maintain their “normal” day to day lives.
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“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.% u/ Z3 ]! |0 y
3 b& Q) P! i, D/ [6 ?6 o4 {$ ~; D9 w# h“We don’t want to rush into anything.”7 {6 X- P: |9 x* Y
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She did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.
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& F* [5 d7 O- t# V8 w* H9 F, R" L“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said., a9 | z3 O+ ^+ f+ N' r- g% I$ e
, U l- l0 i9 M4 ]0 fTheir winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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