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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.0 F$ e2 w$ Z P, r4 Y1 y
+ L; m8 n. r P5 k4 A- AAndrea, 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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. R) F# P+ z- a6 D$ Z, u% E) 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.
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“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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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.+ K3 |# O. W+ m0 ~
, ]' D t& k+ ]; m9 t9 V: c% H' b“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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, p2 q2 y& q' Y+ Q5 g y0 C$ x“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”! Z8 f( m8 J+ k! L0 R% G3 r" Z6 C
6 y- o" e$ X N7 a. q bBill 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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( F# d7 A( R5 E9 X9 |The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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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.; S5 K S$ f/ j+ P+ [) L' G% Y4 L- Y
) m5 y+ u; n1 ^! t5 S1 Y“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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* A: j) {4 ^6 j7 j& j* OShe 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.9 \4 [2 g# s' y! U y3 T; x
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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