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Friends and Neighbors: Levesque helps Mary Lynch Elementary with receipts for cash program

Local woman Jan Levesque is limited in the ways she can volunteer, but she has found a way to make a big difference in small ways - closing in on $1 million dollars in receipts pennies at a time.

Levesque, whose neighbor is Mary Lynch Elementary second grade teacher Amy McManigal, tallies all the totals from the Main Street Market receipts for the school.

"I can't exactly go to the school and help the kids read or anything, so this is just a little way to help them," Levesque said. "I can't go out and pick up trash along the highway or anything."

In the past, McManigal collected the grocery...