Goodwill Rewards Worker For Honesty

Back on May 10th, I posted about Kelli Owens, who works at a Goodwill donation center.

Kelli was sorting through clothes that were donated as part of a job training program and found $5,000 that had been tucked into a pair of pajamas. She immediately turned the money over to a supervisor and went back to work.

Even though the envelope contained a note that said the person donating the pajamas hoped the person who found the cash would spend it wisely, Goodwill announced at the time that if no one claimed it, it would become a donation to Goodwill.

Apparently they have had a change of heart.

A Goodwill Industries worker who turned in more than $5,000 she found in donated pajama pants will get to keep the money because the owner could not be found.

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“She will get to keep the money,” Goodwill spokeswoman Crystal Hardesty said Friday. “It’s being invested into a scholarship fund.”

Owens plans to go to Greenville Technical College to pursue a career in law enforcement.

“I just want everybody to be proud of me — knowing that there is someone out there that is honest,” Owens told WYFF-TV on Thursday. “I couldn’t keep it because it belonged to somebody else, you know. I couldn’t live with myself knowing that.”

Kelli Owens should be very proud of herself. With her integrity, she will make a fine addition to law enforcement.