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By Nigel Maxwell

Local miracles

Muskoday woman reunited with lost engagement ring

Dec 16, 2020 | 5:00 PM

Two complete strangers were united by what they call a Christmas miracle.

The story begins Sunday morning when Steven Zoerb was about to enter the South Hill Mall. After realizing he forgot his mask, Zoerb turned back to his car to retrieve it.

“When I went to open the door of my car, out of the corner of my eye I caught this sort of sparkle,” he explained.

When Zoerb knelt down to take a closer look, he discovered a small diamond ring lying in the snow near his vehicle’s tire.

“When I picked it up I was kind of in awe, just trying to grasp what I had just found,” he said.

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Zoerb took the ring home and made the decision to post what he found on Facebook, hoping the rightful owner might see it. Zoerb’s intuition proved right and later that day, he received a message from a woman who claimed to be the owner, and had the papers and pictures to prove it. Hours later it was confirmed Zoerb had in fact found the woman’s lost engagement ring.

“Someone asked me ‘Well did you get a reward for giving it back to her?’ and I was like ‘The reward was seeing the smile on her face and the tears in her eyes,'” he said.

The grateful owner

Alison Cameron and her husband were engaged on Christmas Day 2013 and were married the following year. She recalled for paNOW a time six months ago when she lost track of her ring and then four months later, after searching her house from top to bottom, realized it was lost.

“It caused me so much anxiety and stress,” she explained, adding it also came at a time she was feeling concerns related to the pandemic.

Fast forward to last Sunday, and Cameron was scrolling Facebook, when she noticed a post shared by a friend. The post was Zoerb’s.

“I said ‘Oh my God, that’s my ring,” she said. “I thought how and why did this person find this ring.”

About an hour later Cameron and her husband drove to the city from Muskoday to see the ring, and sure enough, Cameron’s suspicions were confirmed the moment she saw the ring up close and slid it back onto her finger.

“Tears were just rolling down my cheeks,” she recalled.

Cameron, who is pursuing her social work degree at the First Nations University campus in Prince Albert, told paNOW she has no idea how her ring came to end up in the mall’s parking lot but acknowledged she does make trips all over the city.

“I think in light of this pandemic, it really shows the true nature of humanity. I’m so grateful for Steven,” she said. “It really gives people something to believe in.”

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nigel.maxwell@jpbg.ca

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