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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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% T) {4 e5 C7 @" A1 \+ `0 Z9 b8 |Andrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.
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- Z, E6 {9 p3 w3 q" n3 M* kIt turns out the couple knew they had a winner the whole time but made a conscious decision not to wait seven months before claiming the enormous prize.% W6 L9 ^: l- y" F# x X
/ e1 t. ]% m/ l8 T“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.
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“We chose not to discuss with people until we knew where we had to be and what we had to do and just get our life in order.”
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" `% c* w) b2 O5 H! QAndrea bought the Lotto Max quick-pick ticket at Shefield Express in Londonderry Mall on Dec. 20, making the prize the biggest ever won by a ticket sold in Edmonton and the second biggest in Alberta.2 a5 n6 t+ {0 c7 y
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“When I checked the ticket, the first thing I should have had was my glasses, because I didn’t have those with me,” she said. “I had to get the retail clerk there to tell me what was said on the self-scanner.$ r, l8 Y5 ]) U
2 O4 h: f1 a1 k1 c( D“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”6 F1 }9 B* T, @. m# S6 f
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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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- k1 i3 V, Z/ \1 G9 KThe couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.% U4 t6 s! F& E* A* ]! W
( w2 a6 A l& M5 YAndrea 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.* |6 J$ ~1 a0 M" |( J! v& i
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“We don’t want to rush into anything.”4 z0 s$ j& E6 e& j1 o* e# Q/ Z+ v
) w6 u5 R4 y) V! eShe did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.
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) `- |1 d7 j q+ \$ r# f“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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