Senior Collects Cans for 30 Years to Build Community Pool

on March 18, 2007

If you really want something and pursue it with all your mind, you’ll get it done one way or another, says a 83-year-old Kansas woman who spent 30 years collecting cans to raise enough money to build a community swimming pool.

An 83-year-old Kansas woman spent 30 years driving open roads, picking up aluminum cans, in a single-handed effort to raise enough money to build a community swimming pool for the children in her home town of Eskridge. For more than three decades, Maisie DeVore, gathered and deliver cans, scrap metal and car parts to a recycling facility. Can by can, year after year, she earned $73,000 and received a matching grant to raise the rest. Says Maisie, “If you really want something and pursue it with all your mind, you’ll get it done one way or another.”

Comments

Anonymous said…

I doubt people nowadays will bother to collect cans for 30 years to raise money. Instead, they will have collect donation via PayPal.

P/s: You've been tagged.

18 March, 2007 21:37

Spluch said…

That's why I respect people like her - single-handedly raised enough money by picking up aluminum cans for 30 years!

How many people have such a strong determination and kind soul?

19 March, 2007 23:55