Kelowna – A Penticton woman has now been reunited with her precious ring of significant sentimental value, thanks to a Kelowna couple and the RCMP.

On March 30, 2016 the Kelowna RCMP received a report of a ring lost somewhere in the 400 block of Cedar Avenue. A 69-year-old Penticton woman was in Kelowna for a brief doctor’s appointment on Tuesday when she lost her precious ring somewhere between her doctor’s office and her vehicle parked on the shoulder of Cedar Avenue..

A Kelowna couple, Nora and Gordon Harris, found the custom made ring later that day in the exact area the Penticton woman reported losing it. It was not until the Harris’ were reading Okanagan Saturday edition that they realized what they had found.

“I had the pleasure of contacting the ring’s owner, Hazel Fry of Penticton, to share the fantastic news that her ring had been found,” says Cst. Jesse O’Donaghey. “When I first contacted Hazel she was deflated, she had basically given up hope that her ring would ever be found or returned to her,” adds O’Donaghey. “When I told her that her ring had been found, she was overwhelmed with emotion.”