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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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% I7 G) H" f+ T8 _6 TAndrea, 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./ o" ~& m+ t2 N5 `6 Q
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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., B( [+ d5 H! p/ ? M
3 g' V5 ]& c, B: h" p! ?“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.
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“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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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.7 g- I% s! H9 Z! I! T
; s% \. @: o' ] r“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.”2 T( w4 Q) L0 J! \5 T
. x- A3 q" k& E& Z3 nBill 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' }" T" P) iThe couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.* R5 O- }# e5 e! W1 Q& b
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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.
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8 Y1 C1 g" z8 q( G% C“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.) }* U7 f8 \% b$ H/ E/ ~
1 c! i0 V1 Y7 |; R“We don’t want to rush into anything.”( F" F7 I3 ~! [0 c( U4 f, o% W& ]
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She did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon., x! A6 [2 Y" n; m) D# f9 B
: m' C1 _: x1 J! X7 P2 v8 o7 S8 k( z* [“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.
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' S T) f. Z b+ j6 k3 S% cTheir winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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