Youngsters collect 200,000 pennies for charity
Posted on December 30, 2009 |
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YOUNG MEMBERS OF the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society stand outside the National Bank of Middlebury with some of the 200,000 pennies they deposited last Wednesday after seven years of collecting. The money will be used for local and international charitable causes.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
MIDDLEBURY — Seven years ago, the children of the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society (CVUUS) set off to do some charitable work inspired by a simple quote from Mother Teresa:
“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.”
Last week saw the payoff to a project that yielded a lot of small things — around 200,000 pennies, in fact — that collectively will do some great good for local and international charities.
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