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"Drop in a Bucket" campaign: Donations for Officer Widman's family
By
Nick Spinetto, WINK News
Story Created:
Jul 22, 2008 at 6:29 PM EDT
Story Updated:
Jul 22, 2008 at 6:39 PM EDT
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA - Donations for Officer Widman's family continue to pour in. It all started on Sunday with the "Drop in a Bucket" campaign.
The goal was to raise a $100,000 dollars.
The campaign ended at 6pm Tuesday night.
As of our deadline, a final figure hasn't been totaled. But I can tell you they surpassed their goal of collecting a $100,000. And it's all because of people like you.
For the past 3 days, all over Southwest Florida people have been donating money, even jewelry.
Local businesses are also helping.
On Tuesday a Cape Coral car wash donated all their proceeds to officer Widman's family and Allied Recycling in Fort Myers announced they are donating$10,000 to the Widman's.
But they're donation comes with a challenge for you.
"Besides just donating the money. We want to challenge another business or individual to match our ten thousand dollars, so we can raise a total of twenty," said Brown Thompson of Allied Recycling.
If you're up for the challenge you can call Brown at 239-633-3855.
