鲜花( 7) 鸡蛋( 0)
|
楼主 |
发表于 2014-8-8 11:36
|
显示全部楼层
A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
0 l( C# w e" ^4 {: }. x7 D2 C4 V& L4 s! W8 @9 z
Andrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.! G3 v' [8 {- T6 Q. w
( ~5 w1 Z; ^2 P( }7 A/ Z: X% n; {$ |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.
$ E- h2 z4 R2 P: e+ j% @
1 B2 ~. H5 H6 c! f: u/ y“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.
7 c, s) a) L5 J* w# x* y. A9 A! v" \9 Y# S7 d) k% o
“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.”
3 _! X) K. b0 [# ` c; N0 k) h: ` `! F6 Q6 n2 j% F( J
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./ m k3 f9 G6 F8 \# ^2 Y
( c# w8 r0 M9 ?) ^7 j* u) M
“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.
' H1 x" t" t9 ~7 Q3 w- `2 W I' n5 {6 a4 i3 C
“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”; w- v7 ]% W4 M, Q' w* i$ W) k
! a3 r: j( Y1 x' F$ G: Q
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." k$ O% Q: s9 | S- h
# ^ {: i- z4 Y1 |! {The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
% _# I/ Z6 J6 \3 K. J! o
Y. T W$ T4 w! wAndrea 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.! v6 h3 M% \( M/ i- i8 O6 Y( s
6 y" ~5 ]' n' F7 ~+ s
“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.$ p( p" V' J/ X) Q. x
/ Q! O' m; N# ^3 p$ ]& \5 @“We don’t want to rush into anything.”) m4 A2 b7 Y3 ~# g; n& m8 u
+ W9 O% g6 ?7 k- a
She did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.
8 _4 Z c2 D9 A) j5 X7 g0 k0 p# w# C/ n' E# c# m) ~; q P
“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.
- I3 \* S1 Y s$ u' t
! Z- L* w7 s4 qTheir winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
|