Some Dick Stole 100 Onions That Fifth-Graders Grew for the Homeless
A fifth-grade class in Waterville, Maine planted vegetables last spring as a lesson in agriculture and charitable giving. The food, once sprouted, was going to go to the school lunch program and a local homeless shelter. When harvest time arrived this week, though, their onions were gone.
Someone had apparently robbed the school garden, making off with all 100 yellow onions.
"It's kind of depressing," Albert Hall School student Ashley Harwood told WGME.
Teacher Mary Dunn, who's been running the food program for the past five years, says the garden is part of her classroom curriculum, and the theft will also be a valuable lesson— about recovering when your plans are ruined.
Fortunately, Dunn says someone in nearby Liberty has offered to donate onions so the students can deliver them to the homeless shelter as promised.
"I hope that the person that did it actually tells us because if they just came and told us, then they wouldn't be in trouble," 10-year-old Hannah told the Morning Sentinel.
Is someone cutting onions in here? Oh, wait.
