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.
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