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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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: q8 \' ^9 G0 S% mAndrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.9 y/ }% q7 _% |/ {8 `
: B" u- q1 E) @1 X; a) JIt turns out the couple knew they had a winner the whole time but made a conscious decision not to wait seven months before claiming the enormous prize.
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, @; k! @( E8 |, Y/ [“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.9 @; {9 d$ J |4 n, H2 j
$ E3 H" d% r" }1 A) u) [0 j“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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0 h$ [! L3 i$ ^. s, Z4 P- NAndrea 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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. s5 A+ g! w t- g9 N) O1 U“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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- Y) t1 U. l: Z3 j% fBill 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 ?# W+ U. w8 z" K) E
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The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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# b( D- [, C: V' B: bAndrea 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.; U4 F6 Q6 s7 z" j; n! e* E
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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.”
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4 `9 y3 P$ b5 }& E; d' I6 KShe did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.3 z0 x g. q) M% s9 `+ W* v
1 R, j9 P& }+ t* G“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.7 k3 o/ U- e( z: h4 R- q9 _1 @
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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