Good deed of 2 men saves summer camp for Girl Scouts

LIMA - After discovering a large amount of money in a bag in a parking lot at The Lima Mall earlier this month, Jordan Good and Chris Rodden imagined how they could spend the money.

That lasted for a few minutes and really wasn't something they would do anyway. They actually planned to find a way to get the money to its rightful owner.

"We were taught better than that coming from the families that we do. It wasn't our money," said Good, a 22-year-old landscaper.

Inside the bag was the name and address of the rightful owner, Troop 20105 Girl Scouts Leader Kim Bullock. She had set the money bag on top of her car while she loaded the car with cookies following a successful day selling cookies at the mall to raise money for summer camp.

Bullock didn't realize the money, the Girl Scouts are not saying exactly how much, was missing until she got home and unloaded the car.

"Panic set in," she said.

Bullock grabbed a flashlight to return to the mall. She was about to pull out of the driveway when Good and Rodden pulled up in a car with the bag.

She didn't even get their name or give them something to thank them. She later would learn their names after someone called the Girl Scouts and told them about the men.

"I was very relieved," she said. "With the economic times they way they are, that's a lot of money to just turn away."

But Rodden said the choice was easy even if they fantasized what they could have spent it on.

"We just knew the right thing to do. As much as we wanted to take it," the 23-year-old Rodden said.

The Scout troop and Girl Scouts awarded the men Friday with boxes of Girl Scout cookies to thank them.

Ten-year-old Kayla Dee said the men saved her summer camp, as well as camp for 11 others. The cookie drive is the biggest fundraiser of the year and raises the money to spend a week at Camp Libbey in Defiance.

"We wouldn't have been able to go without the money," she said. "I'm very thankful."