Friday Finds: The Greatest Gift
This is a true story. It just happened this month in our small town. A 91 year old woman had been saving coins in a cookie jar she kept in her kitchen for months for a trip she was planning on taking with her daughter to see her great-grandson graduate in South Florida. Her goal was $100 to help out with travel expenses. She had accumulated $87 worth of change in that jar. On December 10, 2016, she left her house to talk with a neighbor across the road for a few minutes and left the door unlocked as anyone would. Fifteen minutes later, she returned to her house, picked up the cookie jar to add more coins and found it unexpectedly light. Looking inside, she discovered it was empty. Some sneaky person had come into her kitchen and stolen every bit of her change in her cookie jar! She called the police. A police Sergeant arrived to investigate the crime. Unfortunately there weren't any witnesses and no fingerprints could be recovered from the jar, so he ha...