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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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: {' J3 ~3 n- O0 |Andrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.2 _' w0 z; _4 x3 n
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It turns out the couple knew they had a winner the whole time but made a conscious decision not to wait seven months before claiming the enormous prize.
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* x y( t/ O1 r. O; N“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.
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“We chose not to discuss with people until we knew where we had to be and what we had to do and just get our life in order.”0 d6 X0 ^4 y O8 G7 h
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Andrea bought the Lotto Max quick-pick ticket at Shefield Express in Londonderry Mall on Dec. 20, making the prize the biggest ever won by a ticket sold in Edmonton and the second biggest in Alberta.
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7 j. Y' t8 r N, _! x“When I checked the ticket, the first thing I should have had was my glasses, because I didn’t have those with me,” she said. “I had to get the retail clerk there to tell me what was said on the self-scanner.
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/ H6 p- H0 b* }! y1 S“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”
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Bill had recently retired from his job as a heavy equipment operator, while Andrea is still working as a project co-ordinator at an electrical firm and was planning to retire in December.
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* Q' F1 `7 [$ pThe couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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' M" H: V* e9 A' J1 a/ z0 X$ `" p" ~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.
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“We don’t want to rush into anything.”
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She did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.
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4 m Y) S# f% _' S$ @“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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