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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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Andrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.+ {) x8 {( q8 H1 J8 F; C
- j" q6 f/ T$ nIt 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." `1 U) H% v* w
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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.
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4 g3 T$ P" f( ?7 N8 ~“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.5 H) l8 \0 W4 a7 d# R# T
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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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8 E0 k1 x2 B3 V9 Z, f. r0 O“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”$ @8 f* T0 s3 L/ Y. X) z
1 u, e; P9 @" i* p3 lBill 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.
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The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.) y5 @) C& _, ]
8 f1 d) |0 K) a n6 q- n% ]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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“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.& k: m. i) }+ U4 u( M2 C0 W+ X
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“We don’t want to rush into anything.”7 L7 w ~) f; A, I/ Y8 ^
# A( E8 S! V8 B2 z; a/ `She did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.
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( `; w, P. d; o5 {& o/ i“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.2 U2 `) L- v* u. R p9 H3 I8 m% K
5 k* q) z2 `: k. B3 t2 fTheir winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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