MONTROSE, Iowa (CNN) - A five-year-old girl in Iowa is making it her mission to raise money for local police to buy a new rescue boat.
Dempsey Wagner has raised $7,300 in two months to help out the Lee County Sheriff s Office, which doesn t have a boat for water rescues.
Wagner lost two relatives who drowned while fishing in 2017, so she is now doing something to help the community. I was sleeping and I was kept thinking and thinking and thinking and then I hatched an idea, said Wagner.
Donations have been coming in from as far as Alaska and the Carolinas.
By Dave Bohl
Feb 2, 2021
(Lee County, Iowa) A Lee County child is raising money for her local Sheriff s Office to buy a rescue boat.
Five year-old Dempsey Wagner tells KCRG TV9 she had the idea to raise money for the boat after she lost two relatives to drowning in 2017.
So far, Wagner has raised over $7,300. Lee County Sheriff Stacy Weber says the department has ordered the boat and the engine, but still needs additional water rescue gear. Donations have come in from as far as Alaska and the Carolinas.
Donations can be made online through Venmo at Erin-Wagner-49 or by mail to the Lee County Crime Stoppers at 2530 255th Street, Montrose, Iowa 52639.
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