SPRINGFIELD — Coins tossed at Yankee Candle Village are making wishes come true for the animals at Dakin Humane Society in Springfield.

Dakin received 48 baskets of coins this summer worth more than $11,000 and counting. Visitors tossed the change in Yankee Candle Village’s in-store moat, adjacent to its Bavarian Village, by store visitors in the years between 2019 and June, Dakin said Friday in a news release.

Jeff Palmer, sales and operations manager at Yankee Candle, and Ben Ware, property and guest services manager at Yankee Candle Co ., trucked the coins down from the store in South Deerfield. Ware’s team handled the process of cleaning the moat and removing the coins.

Dakin cleaned the coins in a cement mixer — the fastest and most efficient way anyone could think to do it. Fo

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