Serial Do-Gooder Strikes Again with $1,000 Cash Donation

Redford Township’s serial do-gooder has done it again.

The latest anonymous act of charity benefitted the Redford Township District Library, where workers discovered 10 crisp $100 bills from “Anonymous 1679” in the mail, the Detroit Free Press reports.

“We will definitely put this to good use,” said Library Director Lisa Hoenig. “Someone is being very, very nice.”

That someone is “Anonymous 1679,” who leaves only a riddle to explain his or her identity:

“Know the clue

Know the who

Anonymous 1679”

Whoever the generous soul is has been busy.

Tail Waggers Animal Clinic, which helps pet owners care for animals when their personal circumstances leave them short of cash, received a $1,000 donation.

So did the Redford Jaycees, the Redford Goodfellows and the Community Choice Credit Union in Redford, which supports charitable causes around Michigan.

Laura Zain, who runs Tail Waggers, told WJBK-TV she was surprised when she slipped the bills out of the envelope.

“I open up this and I just started laughing,” Zain said. “I was like what the heck?”

She shared the story at a meeting of the Redford Jaycees. “I was like, ‘You won’t believe this,’ and they said (they) got the same envelope,” Zain said. “ We started digging into this and we found it was something going on in the community and it was always all about Redford.”

Hoenig said her staff is sleuthing to determine the donor’s true identity.

“Reference librarians love to figure out questions and everyone has a theory, so maybe we will figure it out,” she said. They’re “Googling the number, thinking about different things they have seen in the library, (and wondering) could it be this person or that person?”

But more important, the beneficiaries of the charitable acts said, is how the money can be used in the community.

John Buck, the president of the Goodfellows group, said the $1,000 donation will help his organization provide Christmas gifts for about 100 children.

Zain said the donation to her organization will finish off an animal shelter.

“Whoever is doing this is making a lot of people very happy,” she said. “It goes to show you never know who you are talking to. We obviously made an impact on somebody.”

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