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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.9 }- n" q- Z( |' X
3 ]$ N* x& ?. _) P( vAndrea, 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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7 c8 a% {) J( G& ?8 D y" f; |' C3 zIt 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.% c& u+ a7 B" Q* P2 j
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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said./ W' V" o0 x# Z* N' l2 j0 n
/ G% @! r1 Y9 p; a“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.”- w p4 x1 Y4 `' u6 r9 S
6 a8 J4 w m/ z3 `* ^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.- k/ \$ \9 F8 Q0 s2 t/ F- q0 G
! t# T' J- O. P6 Q5 A" |“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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' |2 D1 j( W3 V“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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The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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' X$ q$ e; H1 P$ R8 a: i1 lAndrea 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.) I( D' z. K( s: a" A2 x
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“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.
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) c- {2 L4 W5 s' ]“We don’t want to rush into anything.”( L( k; y a% }! o, F
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She did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.
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“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.
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$ [6 p7 p4 |# x U4 o/ mTheir winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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