HAYDEN - With nasty weather on the way, Marion Walker's going to need some help pumping gas.

On Monday, Tom Paschane will be there, wearing his best full-service smile.

Paschane, general manager of the Chevron station next to Honeysuckle Road and U.S. 95 in Hayden, is again leading the way to help senior citizens, people with disabilities and anybody else by offering full service at the gas station, starting Monday. An attendant will help customers from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Mondays through Saturdays, by pumping their gas, cleaning their windshield and topping off the windshield wash reservoir.

"There's been a lot of people calling the store and many others talking about it," Paschane said Monday. "We're happy to do it again."

Paschane said he already has called Walker - who got the full-service ball rolling a year ago through a letter to the editor - so she can be among the first served.

Walker, a former professional car racer who recently turned 90, moved the needle on the full-service dial with this letter to the editor, published in The Press on Sept. 15, 2013:

Hopefully you will print this plea for a real live attendant to pump gas for senior drivers during this forthcoming winter.

We appreciate all the kindnesses our community affords us, but what we desperately need is at least one gas station that will provide this service.

It's no fun when one has reached the 70s and 80s, and still be alert and very capable of driving, to have to be exposed to the winter elements of ice and single-degree weather, walk on ice into the store to pay in advance, then walk back to the car, then pump one's own gas, etc.

Can't we take Oregon's example and have even one station, one day a week, that can provide this much-needed service?

Somebody - hear me, please!

MARION WALKER

Hayden

Paschane heard her. He responded the day after Walker's letter was published, saying: "That's what struck me - the need. I want to fulfill that need, and this is one of the little things we can do for folks."

In April of this year, Paschane said providing full service wasn't necessarily profitable for the station, but there was plenty of reward.

"It was great," he said. "We heard constant thank-yous."

Starting next Monday, the chorus of gratitude can resume.

Want to help?

• Does your gas station want to join the full-service fun? Contact Mike Patrick at The Press, mpatrick@cdapress.com or 664-0227.