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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.! n+ H7 t6 R# V2 d
2 r' B4 p8 Y4 Z+ s* ~7 }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.
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& R7 ?& m7 E# @! z/ DIt 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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“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./ k1 q# N9 N* i( M; A% S k
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“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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% @+ K3 i" u' O0 N% M9 X4 V& OBill 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.0 U+ V" Z! L% c* I4 X K6 B
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The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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. ?( ~( {# ]0 xAndrea 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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) Z2 D: x5 }& A- o6 o# O“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.6 z0 V5 Q2 x1 ^# u
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“We don’t want to rush into anything.”
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$ \: c2 [3 }, A$ o! ~& v% JShe did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.
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$ S+ a i# @6 a“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.
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( h% k: _3 u9 Y; |1 A [Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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