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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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Andrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.. W# ^* k# h( l
' X5 n/ z- ^* O* L, xIt turns out the couple knew they had a winner the whole time but made a conscious decision not to wait seven months before claiming the enormous prize.
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( W' l2 h5 H2 ^: L* H, {“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.4 a2 x0 V j4 i1 Z9 Y# e
3 X% g. |8 l; Q# [4 L“We chose not to discuss with people until we knew where we had to be and what we had to do and just get our life in order.”
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Andrea bought the Lotto Max quick-pick ticket at Shefield Express in Londonderry Mall on Dec. 20, making the prize the biggest ever won by a ticket sold in Edmonton and the second biggest in Alberta.
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6 D. \# `- g2 a! J“When I checked the ticket, the first thing I should have had was my glasses, because I didn’t have those with me,” she said. “I had to get the retail clerk there to tell me what was said on the self-scanner.
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& U1 G$ w, W- b/ t3 u, W; k, j, R“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”
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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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$ X0 i, S* s4 b! K5 p& B$ X% IThe 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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@7 F* K# v4 j9 c: l& [1 U“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said. R3 ^$ s" ^/ H4 F2 y4 P
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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.
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. w0 X5 p9 B" F) H. {5 FTheir winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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