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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.0 s7 M$ M# d/ m. p9 D8 [
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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. p$ \/ u1 U; Q: J
& m5 |9 \, E vIt 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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5 c# ^* K# Z/ v% B+ A% a5 ~! A9 ~9 N3 Z“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.5 |' D4 v* R _& z" t
* Q; E Y. a& k3 V7 T6 a! ^“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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/ |/ U* g' x+ M) CAndrea 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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, ?) Y; k# V9 l/ e6 x9 M( L4 {“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.”
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0 b, `9 G2 D- j' g4 c. VBill 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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" s0 H1 l+ Z( E' f, e2 @, |The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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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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“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.”: u/ L9 k* S# ^& q. B+ B
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She did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.. L' H, {" U8 O J
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“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said., M0 P% B* g( G+ Y
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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