Community helps victim.

On a night in December 2005, Kerry Capps was driving to her grandparents' house in Fernley, Nevada, when her truck rolled over. The accident broke her neck and left her a paraplegic. Mrs. Capps spent nine months in hospitals recovering from her accident, much of that time in Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado, which specializes in spinal cord injuries. Perhaps the hardest part of her ordeal was being away from her husband, Harley.

"I missed my buddy," she told the Fallon, Nevada, Lahontan Valley News.

The Capps' ordeal was made much easier by the generosity of others, however. Both Harley and Kerry received sick-leave time donated by their co-workers. Kerry had worked for the Farm Service Agency for less than a year before her accident, but she received a paycheck the entire time she was hospitalized thanks to the generosity of FSA employees across the country. Harley's co-workers were also generous in donating their sick-leave time, so that he could frequently visit Kerry in the hospital.

Harley's co-workers also discovered a community service project sponsored by the Churchill County High School construction class, and provided him with an application for it. Harley turned in the application two days before the deadline, and not long afterwards received a phone call from instructor Louie Mori, telling him the application was approved. The class remodeled the Capps' home to make it wheelchair accessible.

Mori's high-school class provided the labor for the Capps' home renovation project, and the townspeople responded generously to Mori's requests for donations of materials or time. The Capps received donations from local hardware stores, building contractors, and individuals.

The Capps are moved by the generosity the community has shown to their family. "The outpouring of human kindness just renewed our spirit," Kerry's mother-in-law told reporters.