Editor:
Hi good folks in Williams Lake.
While traveling through your beautiful province last fall, the alternator on my pick-up failed.
It was your Thanksgiving holiday, and without tools and an alternator it was apparent my son, daughter and myself would miss our ferry boat out of Prince Rupert to our home Ketchikan.
I wasn’t really budgeted for an extra week till the next ferry so it would have been a bit tight fiscally.
I saw a car dealership and pulled in, hoping for a repair (it looked empty — I didn’t know yet it was the Holiday).
After trying the locked door, I noticed a man pull into the lot in his pickup so I walked over and inquired about a repair shop.
He told me everybody was closed for holiday and asked what the problem was with my rig.
After telling him I thought the alternator was out he suggested I follow him to Canadian Tire, that they might have an alternator there.
He then told me he was a mechanic and if they had the alternator he could change it out for me (whew, what a relief!)
Well, service was excellent at Canadian Tire plus and they had an alternator, and this man, Jim Bursinger, taking time away from his family on Thanksgiving out of the generosity of his heart, changed the alternator in our pickup.
He absolutely would not accept any payment.
Mr. Bursinger, this thank you note is long overdue, but I just found your name again. Thanks from your neighbor to the north!
God bless all you folks down there and especially Jim and his family! (and the folks at IRL International Truck Centres-you know this already, but you’ve got a good man there).
Ray Kolean
Ketchikan, Alaska
