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By Karen L. Willoughby, Managing Editor
BALL – Emma Miller of Kingsville Baptist Church in Ball was 6 when she started saving the tabs off aluminum cans.
She’ll be 11 in August, and she’s still at it. People from across Louisiana – readers of the Baptist Message – have to date helped her gather more than a half-million tabs.
She collects them for the Ronald McDonald House near St. Jude’s Hospital for Children in Memphis, Tenn. The facility provides free housing for the families of cancer patients at St. Jude’s.
This spring was Emma’s first time to personally deliver to the Ronald McDonald House the tabs she had collected. She took 39 gallon-size ziplock bags, which filled a 33-gallon plastic can.
“Since 2009 she has collected more than 100 gallons, which is several hundreds of thousands of tabs,” said Kristetta Miller, Emma’s mom. “With Emma, it’s not numbers that matter to her; just helping.”
Emma Miller expressed her thanks “to every church and individual who has helped. Please tell them to keep sending tabs, care of Kingsville [3911 Monroe Hwy, Ball LA 71405] and we will keep passing them on to the Ronald McDonald House.”