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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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Andrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.
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1 w9 P9 M5 f; X# ~It turns out the couple knew they had a winner the whole time but made a conscious decision not to wait seven months before claiming the enormous prize.' _! G- v2 w. j6 a& t q$ q9 K* r
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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.6 @2 |+ `4 H3 B. q
8 k# F7 S7 g) @) z& |6 |“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.”) N) |6 l: v/ a% z& T) ~
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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.( Q" a4 g* B% f# _% H
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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.
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$ w/ }5 r* }( v# a/ B1 ~“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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1 f, k$ s; p: b4 u" F& q" oThe couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner., Y* ~& x4 d+ A3 J( N
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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.! n6 i9 k/ d, y+ N: P, _' q
4 a0 p8 a8 i& ]: e4 R“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.6 A4 m/ W7 y1 J( C5 I, u
* r" Y) v/ f0 f! o$ T& `: t“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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“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.& c2 G2 `) S8 {8 Q+ C$ ]1 ?5 C
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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