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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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% L0 ]4 O3 B y4 H' s8 LAndrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.
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It turns out the couple knew they had a winner the whole time but made a conscious decision not to wait seven months before claiming the enormous prize.
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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.0 e. w( n( K& y$ `: x% J
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“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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% U5 E6 @( b! Z+ O! r7 BAndrea 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.8 _% }' e8 ~1 k3 Q' a! ?6 N
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“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”
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) N* K/ i# ]- g9 E+ Q5 z' x2 dBill 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.; L* _4 b" H. m) M
2 }) ~( p" w' h N5 [' \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.
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“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.
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$ J6 k" F+ I# q" J9 u+ ]“We don’t want to rush into anything.”
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3 W/ P: g) T: ~- o) ^- tShe 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.+ r' Y2 n8 K5 R2 _6 f
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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