Christmas miracle?Shortly before Christmas last year, Linda Exler of Idaho Falls, Idaho Idaho Falls is the county seat and largest city of Bonneville County, Idaho, United States.GR6 As of the 2000 Census the population of Idaho Falls was 50,730, with a metro population of 116,980. (2006 estimate: 52,786)[1]. , accidentally threw away an envelope containing $200 in cash. She called the Idaho Falls Idaho Falls, city (1990 pop. 43,929), seat of Bonneville co., SE Idaho, traversed by the Snake River; inc. 1900. The chief city of the extensively irrigated upper Snake valley, Idaho Falls is the prosperous commercial and processing center of a cattle, dairy, and Sanitation Department Noun 1. sanitation department - the department of local government responsible for collecting and disposing of garbage euphemism - an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh , hoping the money could be found. It was unlikely, since the Bonneville Transfer Station, where it would have gone, processes tons of trash daily from more than 50,000 residents. Bonneville employee Chad Holverson was pushing debris from a corner between loading trucks when he noticed something brown in a corner of a clear bag. He opened the manila envelope, found the $200, and turned it in. The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. reported on Christmas Eve, "Exler calls this her 'Christmas miracle,' but Holverson says it was just the right thing to do." |
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