By Town Crier Staff Report

For Alina Rother, one phone call presented bad and good news at the same time.

Rother, a medical aesthetician and owner of Skin & Soul Clinic in Los Altos, received a call Aug. 21 from her friend Jim Nappo of Alain Pinel Realtors. He said a woman had found Rother’s envelope containing more than $800 in cash and checks in the parking lot at Wells Fargo Bank on Main Street.

The woman, Susie Roberts of Campbell, took the envelope to Nappo because his name was on the envelope.

“I thought he was joking,” said Rother, a German native, who hadn’t realized the envelope was missing.

Rother estimated she had parked at 1 p.m. and Roberts had found the envelope around 4 p.m.

Rother was both alarmed and relieved at the news, as she showed the envelope - checks and cash still enclosed - that she said she will save as a memento marking the occasion.

“It’s good to know there are still good people,” she said.

She felt she must have “good karma,” because she believes good things happen to good people. Rother rewarded Roberts with a free facial for her good deed.