Hometown Rankin - December 2015 & January 2016
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Love<br />
Recycled<br />
Camille Anding<br />
Peggy Sims had no idea what she initiated on February 28, 1980<br />
when she delivered her sister’s birthday card at Trustmark Bank’s<br />
drive-thru window in Richland, Mississippi. Her sister, Clara Nell<br />
Mancil, was handed the card but “got mad” at her sister for not<br />
taking the time to hand-deliver it. “I saved the card and decided I’d<br />
send it back to her on her birthday on September 11,” she admits.<br />
That was the beginning of the recycled, traveling birthday card<br />
that made its 70th round this year. If the story of a repeated, recycled<br />
card is strange, the manner of the recycling is even stranger.<br />
The sisters, whose love for each other is enviable, have tapped<br />
into their creativity for their card delivery, and the postal service<br />
can’t take any credit.<br />
In 1981, Clara Nell had the Richland Chief of Police, complete<br />
with siren and megaphone, deliver the card to Peggy’s office at<br />
Hubbard Butane Company. Peggy reciprocated by copying the<br />
original card 48 times and giving the copies to random bank customers<br />
to hand-deliver to Clara Nell on her birthday.<br />
58 • <strong>December</strong> <strong>2015</strong>/<strong>January</strong> <strong>2016</strong>
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