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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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# I' ?' F- N1 @2 A8 qAndrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.
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* }, {4 M( B7 L# m( qIt turns out the couple knew they had a winner the whole time but made a conscious decision not to wait seven months before claiming the enormous prize.
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7 |' A/ t r4 g6 U0 q“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said." `1 ~! P: i3 w- I
B+ |& x/ B' B- [7 l2 R# a“We chose not to discuss with people until we knew where we had to be and what we had to do and just get our life in order.”
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7 ~! ^1 i! ]& H% S$ W+ 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." O1 E1 O3 U7 E5 Q
: D' X6 b+ v+ g* n" p8 t8 u“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.! T2 i7 j, C4 _! X0 g6 }* q- E
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“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”! w* z, Y ]; u$ H' S/ R t
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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.# n# Y, d$ G: `: O
' ? C# j6 W1 f: [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.9 d- d$ M$ c0 U6 d7 R! v
4 E, K1 b1 e! k, M6 @9 J/ Z5 w“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.
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9 d1 Y* a. a4 b' f' Z“We don’t want to rush into anything.”! `' e, `) t5 d. D0 O j
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She did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.7 f! ?, V9 x; y. v6 ?( E
2 H: ?' f4 j+ |3 _“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.9 T: E4 w( g9 A0 G
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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