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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.* `3 Z. f2 j5 X7 W/ a( Q N! N
" E5 V6 w( O3 p$ CAndrea, 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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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.- k% F, a; q T; K6 ~! ^
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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said., r: [! k9 U# }- N
8 c* x# @* ]5 d8 q! ~0 T3 S& M+ v! Q“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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% E* N/ z" J7 G! R9 MAndrea 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., N% J8 V0 m" f8 Q# S7 f6 @" @2 g
9 g0 ?) Q @. |5 y( w4 e“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.”! N2 r+ ~: A0 h6 L0 x
6 ^& K( @7 [# A, R5 k) L! \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.; n7 O5 |! H' E% k
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The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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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.: @0 Y) k. ?8 G
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“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.
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# `: q2 N$ {# e2 @! E2 I“We don’t want to rush into anything.”
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$ g( x8 W8 W2 JShe did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.2 J7 K5 }/ h2 T% n0 m! T' O- W/ _- }
% ?# E5 |& e3 ~+ D9 A“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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