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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.: ^5 w+ H. O) J5 w0 _3 W% J) E) w
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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.
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, ]* `9 M! q. g+ ^/ G: {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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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.# [- B2 n; I3 Q% h. x
$ @$ z( G m) |+ {“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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( d0 P& \, ]# l+ m6 r4 @; s! I6 W5 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.( \/ ~( w+ L& e0 h3 v
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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.”5 v7 |8 i( `2 J" i. ]- w$ J7 o: h- F
7 |) M2 z y, Y; e/ |- E7 ^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.
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The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.' H0 b' ]# L( k% y! x$ ?9 S
3 c8 Z8 o4 A1 Z) Z9 B/ n6 EAndrea 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.* `* ^# a3 }9 P6 ]' K! J& x
* |4 s q T- n$ W/ W7 v; U“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.
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+ j5 K3 C, m0 M' z“We don’t want to rush into anything.”
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3 C2 M! i$ A. M# {She did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.
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! u! g+ w8 v( N C/ M“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.+ y! h) ]9 \/ Y1 }# j. y
1 m7 `. B3 f7 v1 YTheir winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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