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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December." k m% Z& t. S8 j
" ?; H! Z( o4 d( e2 B/ bAndrea, 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.) m2 U& \+ h7 a
$ A/ d8 \& \: }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., Q+ ^. x' G+ F8 L8 I
' w- j* w3 L" [0 Y' l“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.+ V( y$ i7 o) w* b9 M6 R% e
! D/ }5 j" @$ _: f, P5 N' @“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.”7 J( A; D2 X, X4 k3 O7 p2 ~
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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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“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.4 o7 E/ S( Q2 t4 w8 U" j2 A+ p
) M9 y. d. y J! p: z0 |; Y“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.* q- h/ u% ~ h+ E2 e F0 ]
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The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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$ v# ^" n2 R0 y' x# sAndrea 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., I1 g* r5 @: a$ M) D$ W
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“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.
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* a% y3 I! {$ V0 H" `“We don’t want to rush into anything.”- m5 \# F9 t/ h8 s( c7 ^: q
* n* s o2 Z" s! X) H* ZShe did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.
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5 w" v+ }5 t, `$ N5 T“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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