Bainbridge man's good deed helps out vacationing family

Bainbridge Town Marshal Rodney Fenwick (right) returns the lost wallet of Robert Polsan. Polsan had left his wallet on the back of his boat with close to $2,000 in cash in it and lost it along U.S. 36 last week. Ray Roberts found Polsan's wallet as he biked along U.S. 36 on Wednesday and did everything he could to return it and the $1,000 in cash he found.

BAINBRIDGE -- No good deed goes unrecognized, Bainbridge resident Ray Roberts is familiar with this concept. Roberts did his good deed of the year, by simply returning a wallet.

Roberts was doing his daily bike ride along U.S. 36 on Tuesday morning and spied a dollar bill in the ditch along the road.

"I pulled over and picked it up," Roberts recalled. "I looked down an found another, then a $20 and finally $100."

After collecting the money that was in the ditch, which added up to close to $1,000, Roberts also found a driver's license and bankcard of the owner.

"I tried to find out who he was and get in contact with him through Google," Roberts said. "I couldn't find him so came to see Rodney (Fenwick, Bainbridge Town Marshal)."

After having no luck finding the owner, Robert Polsan, through an Internet search. Fenwick tried a long shot and contacted K-Mart after a prescription card for the company was found amongst the cards collected. The representative for the pharmacy was able to get contact information to Fenwick to contact Polsan thanks to the 18-month-old prescription card.

Polsan was ecstatic when Fenwick contacted him about the retrieval of his lost property.

"Please tell me you have some good news," Polsan asked Fenwick when he received the call.

Polsan related that he had lost his wallet last week while he an his family had been visiting family at Heritage Lake.

"I must have left my wallet on the boat," Polsan said. "I was putting ice in the cooler and trying to round up the kids."

He was grateful to Roberts for being honest and trying to find the owner of the wallet. Polsan said that most people would have just taken the money and not looked for whom it belonged to.

Roberts stated that he only did what he thought was right and that he was paying back good deeds done for him. Roberts related stories of him losing his wallet and decent people returning it to him.

Polsan told Fenwick and Roberts that everyone told him to write off his wallet and that trying to find it was a lost cause.

"I just prayed and I hoped," Polsan said.