Tooth Donation Nets $500 for Katrina Aid - Yahoo! News

Tooth Donation Nets $500 for Katrina Aid - Yahoo! News: "Tooth Donation Nets $500 for Katrina Aid

Wed Oct 12,10:50 AM ET

BRANDON, S.D. - An 8-year-old girl with a big heart and loose tooth found a creative way to help people displaced by the hurricanes.
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Briton Nordmeyer sent her tooth to the Red Cross chapter in Sioux Falls, hoping the tooth fairy would leave money there instead of under her pillow.

The tooth poked a hole through the envelope and fell out, but her letter made it. And after word spread of her generosity, a $500 check came in from an anonymous donor, said Jeff Stingley, director of the Sioux Empire Red Cross chapter."