Money raised by play exceeds expectations

When Margaret Meggs saw the amount that the V-Day organization, which sponsors local productions of "The Vagina Monologues," expected the benefit play to raise during three Havre showings last week, she was taken aback.

"When I read on the Web site that they wanted us to raise $6,000 just like huge universities in big cities ... I was overwhelmed, and not in a good way," said Meggs, director of ReSPONSE, a Montana State University-Northern campus-based agency that provides education about relationship violence and refers victims to other local service organizations.

Meggs thought realistically...