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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.
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2 i4 W4 c+ S1 r ^8 k- F# VAndrea, 47, and Bill Groner, 54, finally came forward a month after the Western Canada Lottery Corporation called on lottery players to check their old tickets.
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; m3 ?: t8 q: I/ ], QIt turns out the couple knew they had a winner the whole time but made a conscious decision not to wait seven months before claiming the enormous prize." P! p5 F+ Y$ d3 a) B5 O
: X2 N% N; p2 e& {. _; w“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.# |' ^( O+ [) j3 ^
2 y9 O7 R3 D6 `5 T, 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.”
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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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“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./ {- \9 @# b7 M6 k) r9 R) B
! |. H* W; Y' ]* e) ]“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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4 L2 v; K6 [' [8 E0 PThe 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.- d) ?* a4 C2 t
# a' _9 h+ p: n* p“We don’t want to rush into anything.”
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* N; N$ w" }" y$ w: e9 cShe did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.+ }) o, k+ W" O# M
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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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! @! f+ }) H5 ?8 x. M/ Z5 rTheir winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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