'Anonymous Friend' gives $100 million to town

[JLB]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/12/million.mystery.ap/index.html

ERIE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Mike Batchelor invited the heads of 46 charities into his downtown office for one-on-one meetings to personally deliver the news. Nearby, on a small table, sat a box of tissues.

[JLB]

A donor had given a staggering $100 million to the Erie Community Foundation, and all of the charities would receive a share.

That was when the tears began to flow -- and the mystery began -- in this struggling old industrial city of 102,000 on Lake Erie, where the donor is known only as "Anonymous Friend."

[matthew94]

That's cool

[slowpokemcgee]

Why can't someone give me 100 million?

[shotgun]

Why can't someone give me 100 million?
how about 1 million

[FamousAmos]

Erie sounds a lot like Buffalo