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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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" J( y4 U0 o0 h P# kAndrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.3 P& e* _( t6 w: a
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It turns out the couple knew they had a winner the whole time but made a conscious decision not to wait seven months before claiming the enormous prize./ q( y$ A1 L, B3 {& H, g3 L
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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.; [' ~/ r" Y8 I# n8 `, d/ F
- J% f' ^( E) `“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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- ]5 i; a8 l u) v' K/ p5 F: 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.' _# J- G, p0 s6 \
( {9 n) h1 ]+ h W% g ~“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.& X6 p3 g5 @2 f4 F( u! b: B2 l
! C6 X7 F# G3 h! a; k' A; K“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”
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% W% x. C. R/ mBill 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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% x$ d# b+ q- E' S% o0 SThe couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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' `# e4 d& ~ _8 Y$ ^: D0 e5 dAndrea 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.$ s8 S( _1 y2 v V- V; P
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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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She 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.) C: h- |) i/ p9 s# [
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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