While standing in line for food during September’s Sedalia-Pettis County United Way kickoff event, Jack Menges told fundraising campaign chairwoman Chris Stewart that she had made a mistake in the stated goal of $576,170.
“Jack came up to me and whispered, ‘That goal is wrong,’ ” Stewart recalled on Thursday. “ ‘No, it is right, Jack,’ I told him. He said ‘No, it should be $756,000.’ ”
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