As temperatures drop, one Tennessee teen is hoping you'll “take a coat or leave a coat.”
For 14-year-old Maddie Harter, it all started with an idea: to set up coat racks outside local businesses where people can take a coat if they need one or leave a coat – no questions asked.
"If you spend your time blessing someone else then you’re going to get blessed too,” Maddie said.
Harter said she sees the need.
“I see people that come into my school that have thin little jackets and it’s pretty sad because I know that if they had a bigger coat they be wearing it because it’s so cold out right now,” she said.
Store owner Heather Hardwick says she was happy to help keep the community warm this winter.
"We’re going to keep it as long as it’s cold as long as kids are needed and we’re hoping that it will go every year we want it to be tradition,” Maddie added.
Maddie has one coat rack at The Shop of Pleasant View and another one in Ashland City near PSP Law on Cumberland Street.
