Jan. 14. By Dave Yochum. All will soon be right in Cornelius: The $2,500 needed to put Humpty Dumpty back in his rightful spot in front of Cornelius Elementary School has been raised.
Humpty sat atop a brick wall in an open book with the nursery rhyme engraved on the left side and a word search on the right side; that is, until the Humpty portion was stolen a year-and-a-half ago.
But two residents, Stuart Barbee and Chad Hucks, organized a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe, receiving donations of anywhere from $25 to $200 in short order. The Town of Cornelius will recognize them at the Jan. 21 Board of Commissioners meeting, and most likely have a time frame for the replacement…