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AASU student captures international attentionBy now, anyone within reach of a newspaper or television set has heard the remarkable story of Trista Wright. The Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) freshman, while removing sheetrock in a closet of a hurricane-ravaged home in New Orleans, came across a cache of $100 bills believed to total more than $33,000. The money is thought to have been stashed away by the owner's father during a period stretching from the Depression through the 1970s. Trista and her classmates were on a volunteer spring break field trip organized by the Baptist Student Union in Savannah,GA. The Associated Press, National Public Radio, CNN, CBS, CNBC, the BBC, and, locally, WTOC-TV, WSAV-TV, and WJCL-TV have interviewed Trista, and fellow rehabber and AASU student Haley Barton. Other television stations and newspapers from Macon to Las Vegas have also carried the heartwarming story that Trista calls "a miracle." Meanwhile, other media inquiries are still coming in from such media outlets as Inside Edition and the Ellen DeGeneres Show. According to the Rev. Marty Youngblood, who accompanied the students to New Orleans, the found money story received the most hits on Yahoo on March 21. |
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