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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.0 ]* z5 m' l$ j6 B# p/ }% b6 M
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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.9 c" i. `- N) \; C. y" a
8 Z, z ^- M, U, x7 {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.6 b- V# |$ }" a& M& y
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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said./ Z* t6 N8 U6 e+ E5 b
% ~6 r$ @( {3 n7 g, c! 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.”" C! T' f7 Q$ W, B% E* I
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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.
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( u& B: a0 A. ?' g“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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6 W" Q. [! h# a e# ]“She was more excited than I was at the time. I was in disbelief.”* @3 w' E/ v4 L/ _, t
. x6 _. E# V1 a; t3 ] P4 QBill 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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" A% N7 I/ Y; ^4 B0 u" P" _The couple has kept on buying tickets since picking the winner.- O; t5 P; t0 q0 S6 U" _7 W/ T
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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.. p8 U9 w1 f8 q+ S8 R
8 b* Z! \% L' s9 q* M' T% k“It’s more money than what one could ever dream of having,” Andrea said.
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. c. ?6 h. i: J9 h" l E“We don’t want to rush into anything.”
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' U3 ~( N! E% _: m' SShe 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.
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9 T5 z, ]# ]: |- U \" K3 D2 a& CTheir winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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