Prove love and kindness prevails

I love living in a small town!   Alexandria is a great community, we have great school systems, great residents and most important, it is safe.   I think all of us that has lived her our entire life as I have, can remember going to sleep at night with your door open and just locking your screen door.  Things have changed, people have changed but our town remains a good Town.   As a small community, we care for our neighbors, we look after their property if they are on vacation, and if your neighbor needs help with a home project you lend a hand.  I remember growing up, we had a neighbor in the community where I lived anytime someone passed away, she would go around and collect donations to send flowers.  This is why I love Alexandria!  Right now, one of our fellow resident's is in need of help, she happens to be my neighbor down the road.   I do not personally know my elderly neighbor, but I know enough to know she is someone I need to look out for because of her age and she has done the same for so many in her earlier years.  Over the weekend a male came to her house to solicit work, when she did not have the money he convinced her he already had completed the work so she MUST pay the money, or else.  I can only guess, but I am sure she was frightened, so this "man" drove her to the bank and convinced her to withdraw $2000.00 from her banking account.   When the police officer told me this story, my first reaction was tears, and tears, AND tears.  Then my heart physically ached.  How can someone be so cruel, so mean?   How can she ever trust anyone again, after all of her years on this earth, she gets THIS in return?!?    I am a nurse that has taken care of the elderly for nearly 15 years so I know they are trusting souls.  They were not raised, nor did they raise their children to deceive people.  To see someone so vulnerable taken advantage of is truly heartbreaking.   Others with the basic compassion for others find this action repulsive as well.  I would like to show my elderly Alexandria neighbor, my friend that we are here to help her.  That the good out-weigh the bad and most important not all people are heartless.  Someone described her as the "Mother Teresa" of Alexandria.  She has always donated her time, volunteered, cared for the children, helped out at Church, anything needed to be done, she was there.  It is time for the all of us to be there for her now!