An Airdrie small business displayed an act of overwhelming generosity to a veteran of Canada's military and his family just prior to Remembrance Day.  

Airdrie's Tools In Motion gave the family a refurbished van after learning from the Veterans Association Food Bank that the transmission had gone out of the car they had been driving meaning the family no longer had a way to get around.

Allan Hunter with the Food Bank picks up the story.  "We had Brandon, a young veteran soldier who had lost his job and was coming to the Veterans Association Food Bank to get a hamper and blew the transmission in his car.  By the time they'd towed it and looked at it they ended up having no money and the car wasn't worth fixing."

Hunter explains that the Food Bank put the call out that they were looking for help for the young family.  On the Thursday prior to Remembrance Day, the family came to the Food Bank for the Thursday night dinner they put on.  Tim from Tools In Motion was there to greet them.   Hunter says he was there to give them more than his best wishes.

"They thought they were getting a bus pass but Tim had donated a van that he had taken in and completely reworked.  It's got the inspection on it, it's got winter tires.  To watch this family, their little guy in that van clapping.  They were just thrilled.  They had pushed a stroller through the snow to the Food Bank to come there just to get some food.  To watch a local company like Tools In Motion, local heroes like I call them, step to the plate and put that van there.  This is a life-changing moment for that family."

Hunter says the gesture brought tears to many tough and weathered faces at the Food Bank and the family were overwhelmed with the gesture.

Other people have covered the cost of insurance and registration for the van.

Hunter calls Remembrance Day, "365 days a year.  It's not just November 11th." 

This isn't the first time that Tools In Motion has shown this type of generosity according to Hunter. "He did it for a single mother and he's done this two or three times that I'm aware of.  He doesn't do it to be recognized.  He does it because there's a need and he has something that he can give back."

Tools In Motion, in the Kingsview area of Airdrie, has a bin at their business where you can make donations to the Veterans Association Food Bank to do your part for hungry veterans.

"This is why I love Airdrie," says Hunter.  "We have people like Tim from Tools In Motion that step to the plate and help people in need."  

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