Boorowa Community A Network Of Kindness

Folks don’t come much friendlier than they do in Boorowa. Last week, the Secretary of Boorowa Rotary, Jennifer Carter received a telephone call from the Rotary Insurance Officer for District 9705.

“(He called) to see if I could locate a lost wallet belonging to a friend of his who was a member of a motorcycle group which passed through Boorowa,” Ms Carter said.

“The friend ran out of petrol just out of Boorowa on the Frogmore Road.” “A local man in a dark grey Toyota Hilux came along and brought the man to Boorowa to get petrol and took him back to his motorbike.”

“The man thought he had left his wallet in the grey Hilux.”

Ms Carter contacted everyone she knew who erected stockyards and had a grey Hilux, based on the description she had been given.

“On Sunday, I noticed a post on Boorowa Noticeboard about a lost wallet which had been handed to the bakery,” Ms Carter said.

“I rang the Insurance Officer and let him know about the found wallet and on Monday the motorcycle group came back through Boorowa and, luckily, the man owned the wallet.”

So this small story tells us a lot about the people of Boorowa:

• that there are those of us who are willing to help out another human being, going out of our way to take them to get fuel and return them to their transportation;

• that there are those of us who conduct ourselves with honesty and integrity, handing the wallet in to a business that visitors to town would frequent; and

• that there are those of us who would take the time to ring around trying to find the lost wallet of a stranger simply because it was a good thing to do.

Ms Carter would like to thank and recognise the following people:

• The Rotary District Insurance Officer for using Rotary connections;

• The driver of the grey Hilux who brought the motorcyclist to town and returned him to his bike;

• The person who found the wallet and handed it into the bakery;

• The bakery for holding onto the wallet until the owner could collect it; and Everyone in Boorowa who responded to the Rotary’s request for help.

“This is not a momentous thing, but it does indicate the friendliness of country towns and the generosity of the people,” Ms Carter said. “It also demonstrates how Rotary is more than a word and service club.”

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• Community
• Rotary
• Community Groups