Couple pays church mortgage with glass haul in Conn
Elis Rabb and his wife gathered a million pounds of glass over four years to pay off a church mortgage. The Glass Containers Corp paid $10,000 for the bottles and jars, with drums moved to the plant from their rural Connecticut town near Rhode Island. Parishioners and Pastor William Carter praised the effort as inspirational, and the church burned its second mortgage for $10,000. Rabb, turning 72 on April 10, plans to celebrate and continue collecting while preparing home improvements.
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