February 10, 2013 was one of the worst days of our lives. We watched a small fire build into a huge fire that turned our garage, Frankie's Garage, into nothing more than a pile of rubble. The fire not only took away our livelihood but it took away years of keepsakes, treasured items, and vehicles that can never be replaced.

It's a day we want to forget but watching the garage burn to the ground will forever be in our memories. Even through our tragedy we have many thanks.

First, we are thankful no one was injured in the fire.

Second, we would like to thank the firefighters who tried to put out the fire.

On March 9, a benefit supper/auction was held in our behalf at the Rockland Elks Club. It was unbelievable! We would like to thank everyone who attended. We especially would like to thank Sheila Polky, Lori Carlson, and Gail Elliott (and Melinda and Angela!) for organizing an amazing benefit in the short time they had. We don't know how you did it!

We would like to thank everyone personally for all the help with the benefit and for all the donations for the auction but we know even if we tried we wouldn't be able to list everyone without missing someone so we are going to say one big THANK YOU to everyone!

We've also received many phone calls and cards at our home and many people have spoken to us while seeing us out and about, we would like to thank everyone for that, too! If there is anyone who we have forgotten to mention please accept our apologies but know you are thanked, as well. It really makes us feel great to know that we live in such a caring community. We are now in the process of rebuilding the garage. It just won't be the same but we can start building new memories with a new garage. We hope to be up and running soon.

We're hoping to see our previous customers and some new ones too! See you soon in our new garage!

A very grateful thank you.

Cecil and Sherry Fogg live in Owls Head.