Lancet Jades
03-06-2004, 03:12 PM
Boy's Balloon Note Found 20 Years Later
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CONNOQUENESSING, Pa. - A note sent aloft on a green balloon 20 years ago by an elementary school student was returned to him this week by someone who lives halfway across the state.
Shane Fleeger, now 30, received the laminated note he had sent out as a fourth-grader at Connoquenessing Elementary School in Butler. The note, which arrived Tuesday to the school office, had asked the receiver to please send it back.
"Look at how neat my handwriting was then," Fleeger said. "It's not that neat now."
Somehow, the note made its way about 170 miles southeast to Robert Brindle's farm in St. Thomas, Franklin County, about an hour south of Harrisburg.
Brindle, 49, said he thinks he found the note about 15 years ago, but doesn't remember exactly when he found it, only how.
"I was out in the field hunting, so I found it and brought it in and I guess I laid it in the garage. And this winter I went to cleaning the garage and I found this note again, so I figured we'll send this thing and see if it makes it to the guy," said Brindle, who said he had no idea where Connoquenessing is.
"I planned on sending it sooner, and you know how that goes — you forget about it," Brindle said. "So I found it again and I sent it."
Fleeger said he planned to write to thank Brindle.
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CONNOQUENESSING, Pa. - A note sent aloft on a green balloon 20 years ago by an elementary school student was returned to him this week by someone who lives halfway across the state.
Shane Fleeger, now 30, received the laminated note he had sent out as a fourth-grader at Connoquenessing Elementary School in Butler. The note, which arrived Tuesday to the school office, had asked the receiver to please send it back.
"Look at how neat my handwriting was then," Fleeger said. "It's not that neat now."
Somehow, the note made its way about 170 miles southeast to Robert Brindle's farm in St. Thomas, Franklin County, about an hour south of Harrisburg.
Brindle, 49, said he thinks he found the note about 15 years ago, but doesn't remember exactly when he found it, only how.
"I was out in the field hunting, so I found it and brought it in and I guess I laid it in the garage. And this winter I went to cleaning the garage and I found this note again, so I figured we'll send this thing and see if it makes it to the guy," said Brindle, who said he had no idea where Connoquenessing is.
"I planned on sending it sooner, and you know how that goes — you forget about it," Brindle said. "So I found it again and I sent it."
Fleeger said he planned to write to thank Brindle.