Good deeds brighten fair
A pair of Good Samaritans helped brighten the Hillsboro Arts & Crafts Fair Saturday.
According to Hillsboro Police Chief Dan Kinning, one of them found a wallet on Main Street containing cash, credit cards, and a drivers' license, and turned it in at the information booth in front of the Chamber of Commerce office.
Moments later, the wallet's desperate owner came to the booth, to ask if someone might have found it and turned it in. It was returned to him
safe and sound, with everything, even the money, still inside.
Another Good Samaritan saved the day for a vendor who had contacted Hillsboro police to report that she suspected that someone had stolen a bank bag from her booth.
"We later got a phone call from a customer of theirs who had purchased something at their tent and had found the bank bag in their bag of merchandise," Kinning said.
Kinning theorized that since the vendor was selling clothing, she might have inadvertently put the bank bag in with the customer's purchases.
The bank bag contained $269 in cash and an undetermined amount in checks, Kinning said.
The vendor had already gone back to Oklahoma, when the second Good Sam called.
"They were packing to go to the airport to fly back to Georgia," Kenning said. "We contacted the woman and told her we'd found her money and he is going to get it to her."
Kinning added, "It's nice to know there are still a lot of honest people in the world."
