Prize winner pays it forward
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The smiles on the faces Hannah Sigler (left), age 8, and Camryn Fleming (right), age 7, show how overjoyed they were when Storm Elliott (center) gave them the toys she won in a prize drawing.
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Erik Jenkins (left), with Bartow Jewelry and Pawn, helps hold aloft "The World's Largest Christmas Stocking" that Storm Elliott has won from the downtown Bartow merchant.
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Camryn Fleming (left), 7, astride Lexi, and Hanna Sigler, 8, astride Cash, get to ride almost every day, says Storm Elliott. The two girls were given the toys inside "The World's Largest Stocking" that Elliott won in a prize drawing.
For at least the past two years, possibly three, Storm Elliott and her mother, Phyllis, travel to Bartow and stop in at Bartow Jewelry and Pawn. While there the two often buy CDs and other sundry items. As they have the past several years, when Christmas season rolls around, they enter into a prize drawing at the shop. They never expect to win, so when Storm’s name was drawn, she was naturally excited.
“This is the first time I won it,” said Storm.