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"Eugene Riddle knows firsthand how\u00A0Christian\u00A0missionary Frank Rothe \u00A0and the soup kitchen he started helps the St. Johnsbury community.\"Frank has been very, very thoughtful. He took me in when I was homeless,\" said Riddle.Riddle is now one of the volunteers at the Mustard Seed soup kitchen, and when the thrift store across the street the funds the kitchen was burglarized, Rothe, Riddle and the other volunteers were shocked.\"It's a little disappointing that someone would steal from a soup kitchen,\" said Rothe.The burglary happened sometime between last Friday and Sunday, as the Connect with Kids thrift store is not open on weekends. When workers came in on Monday, they discovered $300 was gone.Rothe said the door was found unlocked but the worker who closed on Friday said she locked it. There were no signs of any attempt of breaking and entering.Some soup kitchen volunteers believe someone was hiding inside when the store was closed for the weekend, but the crime is still under investigation.The theft led Mustard Seed staff fearing the kitchen would have to close.\u00A0\"Connect with Kids supplies our food, rent, lights, so it would have been a possibility,\" said Dorothy Ferland, a soup kitchen volunteer.\u00A0\u00A0Local churches and members of the community, however, came to the rescue. Over $300 was donated to the charity, saving the kitchen.\u00A0St. Johnsbury police are investigating the crime.\u00A0Are you using the WPTZ app? Click here to watch the video on your mobile device.FCC guidelines require WPTZ/WNNE\u00A0 to provide closed captioning for certain videos on our digital platforms. In a few weeks, we will enable a technology that will allow you to turn off the captions if you desire. Thank you for your understanding."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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