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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.0 V# Y: ?6 W: `5 l
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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.# l, p+ {9 r3 i5 {: a4 A
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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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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.
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- _9 w2 f: g/ T4 b r“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.”# a; X# S! ]+ k P
1 l. M- j; y# Q6 oAndrea 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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“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.3 f# }1 `6 V Y* Y5 U/ U9 j& z# M- I
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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.
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The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.
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# s6 R6 L* s9 p8 k/ `5 u9 v6 zAndrea 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.
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“We don’t want to rush into anything.”8 A8 X, a+ t1 N
+ \8 m( e+ y; f- \2 ?; j0 qShe did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.
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“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.' \ E/ b9 [2 [; Z5 V
( ~3 _6 Q* {% T. rTheir winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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