This story is nuts! Peanuts, actually..A B.C. man will be driving a new car and have a lifetime supply of peanuts after his good deed in helping an American motorist is being rewarded by the Planters nut corporation..Instead of spending $5 million on a Super Bowl ad this year, the company decided to use the money to reward worthy good needs..That’s where Gary Bath, a Canadian ranger and military veteran in Fort St. John, comes in.. PlantersPlanters peanut .Lynn Marchessault and her family were on their way to join her husband when they became stranded in a snowstorm in November..She had driven up from Georgia with her two children, when she got stuck near a lodge for temporary workers in Pink Mountain, B.C..Marchessault wasn’t used to driving in winter conditions and her car didn’t have snow tires..Bath heard about the woman’s plight on Facebook and jumped into action..He located the family and drove them north – 1,700 km – to the Alaskan border where they were reunited with her husband..“Somebody was stranded, asking for help, so I was in a position to give her help,” he told Daybreak North..Bath said the two families have become close, and he talks to Marchessault nearly every day..He even sent Marchessault’s children a Canadian gift package for Christmas: ketchup chips and Tim Hortons..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
This story is nuts! Peanuts, actually..A B.C. man will be driving a new car and have a lifetime supply of peanuts after his good deed in helping an American motorist is being rewarded by the Planters nut corporation..Instead of spending $5 million on a Super Bowl ad this year, the company decided to use the money to reward worthy good needs..That’s where Gary Bath, a Canadian ranger and military veteran in Fort St. John, comes in.. PlantersPlanters peanut .Lynn Marchessault and her family were on their way to join her husband when they became stranded in a snowstorm in November..She had driven up from Georgia with her two children, when she got stuck near a lodge for temporary workers in Pink Mountain, B.C..Marchessault wasn’t used to driving in winter conditions and her car didn’t have snow tires..Bath heard about the woman’s plight on Facebook and jumped into action..He located the family and drove them north – 1,700 km – to the Alaskan border where they were reunited with her husband..“Somebody was stranded, asking for help, so I was in a position to give her help,” he told Daybreak North..Bath said the two families have become close, and he talks to Marchessault nearly every day..He even sent Marchessault’s children a Canadian gift package for Christmas: ketchup chips and Tim Hortons..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
