Macro Mondays -- Trash
My "trash" is his collection challenge. I've saved our pop tabs for years, for him. Many area businesses save them for him too. He is always around his neighborhood and gets the cans that are 'trash' of others. [July 1019, he has collected over 20 million tabs for the Ronald McDonald House, Indianapolis IN.]
ANDERSON, Ind. — It started with a dare.
When an Anderson family challenged Larry VanNess to collect 1 million pop tabs for charity in 2003, they had no idea what they had started.
“We were talking right here,” VanNess said, standing in Shadyside Park, just across from the home he’s occupied for 37 years.
“We got to talking about their kids who were in Riley, and they were staying at the Ronald McDonald House,” VanNess explained. “Right here is where I got dared to get a million.”
VanNess completed the task, but 1 million tabs weren’t enough to quench the self-proclaimed “taboholic’s” thirst. Now, 14 years later, VanNess is working toward collecting his 16th million.
At its annual holiday open house recently, The Ronald McDonald House at Riley Children’s Hospital awarded VanNess with a plaque to recognize his 15th million tab.
Macro Mondays -- Trash
My "trash" is his collection challenge. I've saved our pop tabs for years, for him. Many area businesses save them for him too. He is always around his neighborhood and gets the cans that are 'trash' of others. [July 1019, he has collected over 20 million tabs for the Ronald McDonald House, Indianapolis IN.]
ANDERSON, Ind. — It started with a dare.
When an Anderson family challenged Larry VanNess to collect 1 million pop tabs for charity in 2003, they had no idea what they had started.
“We were talking right here,” VanNess said, standing in Shadyside Park, just across from the home he’s occupied for 37 years.
“We got to talking about their kids who were in Riley, and they were staying at the Ronald McDonald House,” VanNess explained. “Right here is where I got dared to get a million.”
VanNess completed the task, but 1 million tabs weren’t enough to quench the self-proclaimed “taboholic’s” thirst. Now, 14 years later, VanNess is working toward collecting his 16th million.
At its annual holiday open house recently, The Ronald McDonald House at Riley Children’s Hospital awarded VanNess with a plaque to recognize his 15th million tab.