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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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6 m) T* O6 b" `3 P4 O7 n$ G3 mAndrea, 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.* m, C; W# C( H4 e! v9 j
, f0 e8 X, f1 a8 g9 ]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.( R5 F0 q) C! \# ?# P7 B3 Q- u
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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.4 Z6 g) k w5 y' j# b0 O( z
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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.- v% K+ J/ B) G* z5 q) W
! |. `" A- p% g2 a; s& e, x% M“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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! }9 w$ y( c) ] }+ R/ Z; x“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”' q4 n& p- E# V
& @7 b! p3 J$ i, n7 ]5 `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.4 i8 m/ Y) `; e: R/ M' x. j* K
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The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.( j, n+ Q/ I( R
: V2 B4 t/ D4 n7 R, U$ ?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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' T. Z5 V, q: f8 d( j( F“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.# w3 @! o+ H4 M& D: R9 X# @
" t" D6 P9 ~7 D L5 r1 O3 y“We don’t want to rush into anything.”6 [& F J! A8 _
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She did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.
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+ }; v+ G0 s- z) m“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.: H8 r4 K# T$ [1 [
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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