Letters:Good Samaritans do exist

Letter writer is pleased to report that someone did the right thing

I just wanted to say thank you to the Good Samaritan who found my credit card that I had left at the Petro Canada on January 12, and turned it in to the Sooke RCMP.

The world is a better place because of people like you.

Erin Whiteley

Sooke

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