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A Fort Saskatchewan couple claimed a $50 million jackpot Tuesday after buying the winning ticket last December.9 U, \% @3 ?2 X( ~* }% U/ s! e
! a2 x3 N8 b1 l P3 O DAndrea, 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.- G# y' n9 `- P4 Z: m: f
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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.4 B; b9 R/ M U. s0 ?7 v" w; c
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“We carried on with life, day to day, normal people,” Andrea said.; q5 s. C! @" n, M
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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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) X7 k* Y3 R7 y* K. [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.& q9 P) Q8 T8 y+ u8 [
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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.6 U; D# }9 ~) g- S1 [6 {* v: A1 _
$ F1 E3 U- n' h; F& c) v$ OAndrea 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.! E' O, j0 I" f) i
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“We don’t want to rush into anything.”1 r7 X1 [( ]9 J& I. I
5 s2 F5 E& }( n7 ], E& m# [: _She did suggest, however, that it might finally be time to take a honeymoon.
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) }2 m7 w) V0 O“We’ve been married 25 years and we haven’t been on a honeymoon yet,” she said.; n$ i5 D+ U, m; E8 |- i
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Their winning numbers were 2, 13, 18, 24, 27, 37 and 43. |
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