MARK Beggs knows all too well what it is like to fall on hard times, and in turn how much a kind act can mean.

The owner of Jim's Mowing Mildura South has been praised for his selfless act of providing five hours of free lawn mowing recently to a local family who have been doing it tough.

"Last week I put a post up on the Mildura Community Facebook page, purely to introduce myself as this is a b...