When the community shows its true colors . . .

[Sylvia B.]

Early last month a sad event occurred in our small community of 2100. One of our tenants lost his battle with PTSD and shot himself.

It is hard to know what to do when something like that happens. He left a widow and 3 children.

But some people know what to do.

• The coroner went out of her way to make sure a cleaning company could get there the same day. (She gave the widow her contact information, and when the company she recommended couldn't get there for 2 days, she called another company herself, and got them there that night.) 
• The next day we saw the young man who occasionally does mowing for us mowing her yard, and we were told that others were helping as well. (It's a large yard, over an acre.)
  
• A couple of days later someone else started a Go Fund Me to cover funeral expenses.
  
  
• In less than a week, someone contacted me to see if they could pay the rent for August. I had the check in my hand on July 17th.
  
  
• Early last week someone else contacted me and said a couple of families were pooling money to pay the rent for September. They want it to be anonymous, and asked me to let the tenant know.

I love our small town.