A fifth grade class at Albert S. Hall School in Waterville has been growing onions since June. They were about to begin harvest for the 100 onions last week, when they discovered they had been stolen.

Mary Dunn’s fifth grade class was planning to give half of the onions, grown in the school garden, to the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter and the rest were to be used in the school kitchen.

Who would steal their onions?

Obviously, the kids were quite upset. They told the Kennebec Journal they were very sad because those were onions the homeless shelter will not have. One student said, “I hope that the person that did it actually tells us because if they just came and told us, then they wouldn’t be in trouble."

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