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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.+ [4 d/ I0 P. Y0 u- g
$ `- ?( u8 H2 G8 |3 fAndrea, 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.- I( K/ Z, I. y+ y6 n* s3 v. R/ E
) `! g* D$ ^! P+ R) o6 B/ R2 {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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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.& K0 G8 g# C' F6 K6 M! p/ p1 A" X
7 y' y4 Z0 S4 p2 i7 U“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.”( p) i( o5 _" J% l1 O! }0 e. h
* b6 X9 [. L5 Z. }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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( A- R- O }0 |/ v5 H& W“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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“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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. r. Y7 N" h* `. n0 n( ]5 R- R! nAndrea 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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) M) s1 s: q3 t“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.”6 A3 U. s; Y' c
9 D" }6 I( u2 O: y9 vShe did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.4 {! K1 D7 V7 q9 u' Z; E
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“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said." U: Z& Y2 {1 Z7 o
3 r- f& i+ Z* @Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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