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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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$ A; O1 U* F. Y2 sAndrea, 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./ A7 Y* _% i; |, p9 O6 [) t# f
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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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( Q9 {9 I6 Q2 @: `“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.+ H1 c1 _9 D$ q9 y1 t
% Z1 I% K* {0 y9 D8 b“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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, O3 R# e5 ?$ j2 vAndrea 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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“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.$ P# Z2 P* C( D
1 f1 W! j' z& s/ k& _2 Q“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”
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, Y, @8 B9 {- hBill 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.& j5 a6 x$ m2 {9 B4 h
2 o3 M P7 K' u6 l# s( \+ M; mThe couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.1 C: e' F$ ?+ m3 H0 ^
5 \' B7 X$ n' A/ O& c& W* S8 B& mAndrea 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.1 V1 V1 Q& F, L6 J ~/ x6 I/ d4 f
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“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.* K" C: c; ^$ H& Q: C
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“We don’t want to rush into anything.”
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j9 F: p5 ^; F5 \8 JShe did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.5 j5 m5 g7 Z* F i/ I
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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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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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