Hatch helps kids get Lincoln coins
PLEASANT GROVE (AP) — It took the intervention of Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch for a group of Utah schoolchildren to get their hands on the new commemorative Lincoln pennies.
A teacher at Pleasant Grove's elementary school says she got no help calling banks and regional offices of the U.S. Mint and Federal Reserve.
First-grade teacher Shirley Stevenson says she finally learned that because Utah had a supposed penny surplus, it wouldn't see any of the new penny collection.
So she turned to Hatch, R-Utah.
On Tuesday, Hatch's state director Melanie Bowen delivered a basket of 13 penny rolls to students at Pleasant Grove's Central Elementary School.
Bowen said the pennies were straight from the U.S. Mint and hadn't been touched by anybody.
Recent comments
A class act for the kids.
Toby | April 8, 2009 at 10:55 p.m.
Why order from the mint just write your congressman!
glenn | April 8, 2009 at 7:14 a.m.
well that dumb if Utah can't get any of the new 2009 pennies.
well | April 6, 2009 at 11:14 a.m.
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