Auto dealer aids impoverished man

Dear editor:

I would like to write a small note of thanks to the Mountain Home Auto Ranch.

I have been out of work now for close to a year and my wife is disabled and our youngest daughter and her two boys (ages 4 and 6 months) are living with us to help me out.

We have gone through hell the last couple of years -- my wife became disabled, we had to file bankruptcy, we lost our Boise home to foreclosure, I lost my job of ten years, we had to move to an off-grid house outside of Mountain Home (no power or water), so the kindness of the Mountain Home Auto Ranch is GREATLY appreciated.

The bankruptcy took everything we had -- all our assets, my 401K is gone, we had to either surrender or sell every vehicle we had, and we basically have nothing left to sell or trade, and my not being able to find work really complicates things.

Well anyway, the Mountain Home Auto Ranch tried very hard to get us a used truck so that I could haul our drinking water. We have an old 1988 3/4 ton Chevy that has bad tires and the four-wheel drive did not work, and an old 1999 Chevy Cavalier that has almost a quarter million miles on it. We tried to trade both of them in on one used truck that would work for us, but they just could not do it. They really did everything humanly possible to help us. The salesman we worked with had pity on us and went way beyond the call of duty to help us get the four-wheel drive fixed in the truck we have so that I could haul water and did not ask for a thing in return.

I just wanted to publicly thank the Mountain Home Auto Ranch for their compassion and spirit of community.

-- William Brian Caudill