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Ice road trucker story in my paper today.
Oct 18, 2009 9:20 PM
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Letter to the Editor
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Rescued toy
Patricia Gordon, Fairbanks
Published Sunday, October 18, 2009
Oct. 12, 2009
To the editor:
I am an employee of a local gas station that is frequented by the haul road truckers. Sunday, Oct. 11, one of the drivers from the Carlisle company went out of their way to make a little girl happy.
Seems the family had been somewhere up close to Prudhoe when the little girl had dropped her special teddy bear she had since she was an infant. The family contacted one of the places they had stopped at and, sure enough, their child’s teddy bear was there. That worker went out of the way and found a driver heading to Fairbanks who would reunite this bear to the little girl that loved it dearly.
The family sat and waited for several hours for the driver, who, as luck would have it, broke down shortly after heading back toward Fairbanks. As hours passed, to me it seemed the bear would never arrive. But it arrived safely and the family members, even though they had sat in their truck for hours, were so happy. Many people these days would’ve been upset that it took so long to arrive, but not them. They offered a reward for this wonderful person who reunited their child with her special bear, but the driver wouldn’t hear of it.
It warms my heart to know that there are people out there still willing to do something so special for a stranger, with all the bad stuff going on in the area, all the bad stuff we read about every day or hear on the TV.
This random act of kindness to me should not go left unnoticed, and I hope others will take a moment and think about whether there is something you could do for a stranger whose life would be better just because of kindness.
http://newsminer.com/news/2009/oct/18/rescued-toy/?opinion
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