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Penny Round Up! Have you ever had to spend two hours looking for pennies? Well, I have, and let me tell you, it was worth it. It was for an event at my school called the Penny Harvest. No, it’s not putting pennies in the ground and digging them up in the fall. It’s collecting pennies to donate to services and organizations such as the Red Cross. Believe it or not, our school, Mary Lin Elementary, was the first school in Georgia to collect pennies for the Penny Harvest. Can anyone think of a way to get the Penny Harvest for more schools in our awesome state of Georgia? Hopefully more schools will see it’s for a good cause! In the process of writing this essay, I had to email our penny coach, Ms. Paula Kupersmith to get answers to some of my questions. Do you want to know some facts? • Did you know that 850 schools around the U.S.A. did the Penny Harvest and that the total pennies gathered came to one million dollars in all? • Also, did you know our pennies did not have a bank until the day of the Tally Rally? The guy who shook Mr. Mitchell’s hand was sent to Mary Lin by Wachovia Bank. He’d just heard of the Penny Harvest that day and was blown away by our 76 bags of pennies. Because we collected so many pennies, Wachovia is going to send us a money truck next year! Maya Fuller, 5th Grade/Sutton |
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