Volunteering Costs 5-2708

Volunteering Costs 5-2708
Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls Rd Lee NH 03824 659-6217
A Person that I have know for a couple years and talk to several times a week over mornings coffee, asked for help. I will call him Paul. I would say Paul is my age in his fifties but I don’t know. A hard worker and friend to everyone even the reluctant. Paul came from a large family, growing up in Berlin NH. His mother died a few years ago but other than the house there was not much. Paul is just the average Joe trying to survive with little money but a heart of gold. Paul works full time to pay for his apartment in Dover NH where he lives alone. Active in his church where he spends a lot of his time volunteering, cleaning up and repairing things. Paul is the type of person that makes the United States a great place to live because he gives without wanting for himself.
The reason that I mention Paul is that he has a dark side. He will volunteer to help every one out. Six months a year Paul volunteers to cut lawns and clean yards for older residents of Dover NH. Paul collects used furniture to give to people in need. With his little money he rents a storage locker to hold things until needed. A older Durham NH resident asked if Paul could remove a couch and other furniture from her house and take to the dump. Being to heavy for one person to move, he asked for my help. Paul found a home for this furniture. A girl just starting on her own at 18 is getting her first apartment but not for a couple weeks. The furniture will go into the storage locker until then, but first he will have to move what fills it now, to the Somersworth needy today.
Here is a man with little for him self, driving a truck with a bad engine and a car that he owes more than it is worth giving to make better for others. Volunteering may cost a lot of the person giving but the reward is gold in it self.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi