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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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Andrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.
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# \+ S$ n8 \; f% G, ^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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/ T! S. A5 z3 a) O* D+ S“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.
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7 r/ V( P: V% y6 L/ f: K/ ~! O: n“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.”* c7 D$ ]( J8 c- h1 s
4 e* U3 c0 Y, M# _6 J. ?, R8 Q4 XAndrea 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.
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3 v, F2 k( ~& d; E“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”3 d* F4 A4 E/ K$ R" T" G
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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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$ Y$ n* i7 W% z/ ^ q0 JThe couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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: O+ q. e8 j, _/ n0 U3 T9 q( s) F' `3 zAndrea 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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“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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0 K5 b' T6 N6 \She did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.8 v3 X& B, |7 Q$ j3 [ y8 v
B/ b7 L6 v. N4 L, A“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.
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* _, S; i* l8 HTheir winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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