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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.+ A$ F1 B& r2 e' q( D* K9 ]3 H7 j
: M ~* j# a* |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." s1 ^% u; r4 D
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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.
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" ]1 i: q! ^1 S" [“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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) i% `( @( B1 |( s. ^2 ^2 a& zAndrea 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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: g* c$ ~* s9 E8 V& N“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.! p4 j2 I8 u0 A8 P
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“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. c" F( f2 [# K+ \% c9 f, p0 p# c
) `, z' M: }9 U. ^9 xThe couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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- O$ m$ w/ I% D9 @1 ~$ Q; _$ YAndrea 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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“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said. U( n" Z. k& w, n& f
! v1 o1 Z, t2 u- n, ^7 ]5 Q- U“We don’t want to rush into anything.”4 x3 N9 Z. m8 l7 p7 w7 k
9 E* } R% }/ \- j" A; ?$ sShe did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.+ u' o7 X# v( \3 G
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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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) H. r$ \$ J: d* t# S' X- ATheir winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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