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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December., s2 k0 @! r; l3 D
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Andrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.
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) Y7 Q* u4 v5 Z! z JIt turns out the couple knew they had a winner the whole time but made a conscious decision not to wait seven months before claiming the enormous prize.7 S1 b0 [9 s/ y2 H% @5 Q
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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.0 I$ P' N) A p+ |9 _+ Y l5 p" h0 b
: J W4 h& q0 d% H0 T: h+ q“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.”+ A6 I/ Q! z& |3 S0 [ q
. |& u. y! e2 }) @, B3 J+ kAndrea 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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6 Y9 `3 }& W& Z4 t/ n( k; z“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”
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) N( `9 @& {$ O0 c2 sBill 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.# N5 g. h4 x7 d+ [
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The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.$ I- L5 D# Y O
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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.9 U! }5 G X: f- J& g) b
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“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said./ S# }, ?8 q/ C5 D {
- |8 m4 g$ v/ X3 ]( O( _/ k3 k0 x2 [“We don’t want to rush into anything.”
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& l; {( T% d/ S) KShe 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.# L' c3 J3 }/ k; W) T. v6 j
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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