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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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Andrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.. ?4 Y# i4 N8 R( v
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It turns out the couple knew they had a winner the whole time but made a conscious decision not to wait seven months before claiming the enormous prize.' q6 d1 R9 Q# A/ G U
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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said., n& M0 G6 x( }/ @; i) ]9 G) _
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“We chose not to discuss with people until we knew where we had to be and what we had to do and just get our life in order.”
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Andrea bought the Lotto Max quick-pick ticket at Shefield Express in Londonderry Mall on Dec. 20, making the prize the biggest ever won by a ticket sold in Edmonton and the second biggest in Alberta.
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! O2 o$ @2 B/ p+ ^ l“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.( C$ d* D; B2 f5 [/ e
2 \, Q. _; K; K7 P5 t2 G“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”4 F& L1 B' P7 N) p; ~
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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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$ A& ]3 v! h1 h$ X8 ]- ^The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner." I, @. ]6 i6 S
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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.5 k1 R" G0 Z d2 J, b9 {! c
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“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.8 I' v5 Q2 L% _3 ^( _
\2 ?; U5 u" A“We don’t want to rush into anything.”$ L, W F6 E9 a5 i9 ~0 C1 n
4 l: H$ B$ m; {# y, {/ jShe 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. N4 d& @6 `' e& R
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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