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Joyce Massey: People took things that were meant for the Cancer Society

To the people who helped themselves to our donation items:

On Sept. 4, we put out our donations for the Cancer Society, with their green tag attached to a chair.

Checked on items that we put up by our garage door and an artificial tree was missing. Had to run some errands, gone about 1 hour; when I got home, two chairs, along with Cancer Society tag, were gone. The thieves had also helped themselves to other things in boxes and bags.

My husband and I are both cancer survivors, and we think the people who helped themselves to our donations should send a donation to the Cancer Society. So sad when people just take things that are not theirs.

Joyce Massey, Turlock

This story was originally published September 10, 2015 at 12:39 PM with the headline "Joyce Massey: People took things that were meant for the Cancer Society."

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