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In December 2019, Mike Esmond, owner of a pool cleaning business in Pensacola, paid utility bills for 36 families.
A man from Gulf Breeze, a city in northwest Florida (USA), who has a bad memory of Christmas because he was cold while raising his daughters, decided to pay back bills for water and electricity this December. light from multiple families for the third year in a row, amassing more than $ 96,000 in donations.
Mike Esmond, 75, has returned to his Christmas donations with approximately $ 4,600 paid last week to 29 bills, which brings its total donations this year to about $ 85,000 and during the last three years to more than 96,000, Local 10 television reported this Friday.
In December 2019, Mike Esmond, owner of a pool cleaning company in Pensacola, paid utility bills for 36 families to prevent, as he did in 1983, from running out of electricity, water or gas during hours. Christmas.
Thereafter, and after donating about $ 12,000 over the past two Christmas seasons to pay essential utility bills for Gulf Breeze residents, Esmond received an “A Nut Above” campaign check from the Planters confectionery company. , for being a good Samaritan.
Since early 2021, Esmond has used the money from the check, $ 104,000, to help more Gulf Breeze families in danger of having their utilities cut off. paying 667 bills, for a total of approximately $ 80,000, details Local 10.
“In other words, I paid everyone’s delinquent account for a time, between March and August, like six months in a row,” said Esmond, a veteran of the US Army.
The month of December 1983 temperatures of 10 degrees Fahrenheit (-12 ºC) were reached according to Weather Underground, and Esmond, with her three daughters, went through without electricity or heat, unable to pay her bills.
“That year we had no heat and it was the lowest temperature ever recorded in Pensacola. We had icicles of ice hanging from the windows,” Esmond told the Pensacola News Journal.
Esmond said that with the Planters campaign money he donated during 2021, he was not initially planning to donate again this holiday season, but the idea of inspiring others prompted him to continue the tradition.
“You know, it’s not just about paying these 29 bills, it’s the happiness that this brings to so many people in the United States and around the world, ”said Esmond.
“I have countless letters, sections and emails from people,” assured the donor. (I)
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