SALVATION ARMY'S $1,000 BILL MYSTERY

 

 

Rich Bottles Jr. writes:

Sheldon Greenland, commanding officer of the Salvation Army of Monongalia, Marion, and Preston counties, spent his Christmas weekend off the computer and without his phone in hand. He did not realize there were questions about the annual donation of a $1,000 bill the Salvation Army has received every year since 1978.

Greenland, who has been in charge of the local organization since 2018, called WV News within 15 minutes of an article going online Tuesday morning showing that the $1,000 bill donated last week has the same serial number and unique markings as last year's donation.

Whenever we get the donation, we deposit the money into the bank, and we surmise that the anonymous donor has an arrangement to retrieve or repurchase the same or similar note each year from the bank, Greenland said. And that's all the information we have. We have no idea who it is.

A WV News review of the bills in photos from 2020 and 2021 shows each bill has the same serial number and is from District 4. Each bill is creased in the same places, and there also appeared to be small marks — perhaps ink marks — on the upper right and upper left corners of the bills.

A reader first brought the matter to the attention of WV News.

The $1,000 donation is real and authentic, Greenland said. And, it's a tradition we hope to continue for years to come into the future.

Greenland said nobody had ever mentioned this to him before, and he had never noticed it was the same $1,000 bill. Coverage from WBOY-TV in 2016 shows the $1,000 bill from five years ago has the same serial number as well.

I never even noticed that the serial numbers were the same, that it was the same bill — you guys brought it to my attention, Greenland said.

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UPDATE: Salvation Army rep addresses $1,000 bill donation questions; same bill has appeared over multiple years in Morgantown (West Virginia) (https://www.wvnews.com/morgantownnews/news/1-000-bill-donated-to-salvation-army-in-morgantown-west-virginia-appears-to-be-same/article_569c0fe4-67f0-11ec-8ae3-5b80b09b7fbe.html)

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