Letters to the Editor: Thanks for a helping hand in Emery

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Editor:
This is a belated thank you to one resident of Emery. This past September my son and I were touring the parks in Arizona/Utah. One evening we were traveling west on I-70 in a rental car when the Gas gauge light went on. It was about 9 p.m. We were about 15 miles east of the Emery exit. We held our breaths and made it to the Emery exit to get gas only to realize we had to go another 15 miles to Emery to get to a gas station. All I could envision was being stranded along the side of the road to Emery. We made it only to find out that nothing was open. I knew we could not go any further and had my son park the car in the town office lot. There was one light on in a small house across from the office building. I knocked at the door and a woman with an oxygen tube answered. I explained my situation and she said she would make a call. She called her landlord and when she came back to the door she asked if I had a credit card. I said yes and she proceeded to inform me that while the lights were out at the store, the gas pumps were on. I was so happy to hear that. I was already prepared to spend the night sleeping in the car in the town hall lot.
I remember going on family vacations when I was young and my father sometimes found himself in similar situations where he had to ask a local resident for help. He was never refused. It is so nice to know that while many things in our country have changed for the worse since I was young, this helping attitude still exists in some places in the United States. There are places where this lady would have turned out the light and locked the door instead of helping.
Thank you Emery.
Paul McMahon, Columbia, South Carolina
Troy McMahon, College Park, Texas