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Global News
a day ago
- Global News
Man saves wife's wedding rings from ‘slimy' B.C. dump that ‘stunk' — with a little help
When Steve Van Ysseldyk pledged 26 years ago to honour and cherish his wife Jeannine for better or for worse, he didn't imagine 'for worse' would include digging through compost at the dump looking for her lost wedding rings. But it did. And more importantly, he found them — in only an hour, thanks to a little help. 'You know, it stunk, slimy,' Steve told Global News. 'You know, I would do anything to find them, make sure that you know, she's happy.' Talk about true love. 2:03 This is BC: The Ring Finder The Van Ysseldyks' adventure began last Wednesday, when the couple went out to see a movie. Story continues below advertisement They got a free refill of very buttery popcorn for their daughter on the way out, but spilled the bag in the front yard. Jeannine scooped up the bits and threw it all in the compost. You can guess what happened next. The next day, as the couple was out for dinner, Jeannine noticed the rings — an anniversary band and a diamond solitaire — were gone. 'Frantic. I was upset, and I actually had to get up and leave the restaurant,' she said. 'We rushed home … I called my daughter, asked her to check the house to see if she could find them anywhere. And she could not.' After a review of the couple's security cameras, they developed a working theory. The layered butter in the popcorn bag had lubricated the rings to slip off as Jeannine scooped the popcorn off the lawn. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy The compost had already been picked up — leaving Steve with one less than appetizing option. 'So I came to the dump on Friday morning and asked if I could sift through the compost pile,' he said. 0:53 Surrey treasure hunter hopes to return lost ring to owner He knew exactly what he was looking for: the Cineplex popcorn bag and a Tim Hortons Timbit box and a recognizable compost bag. Story continues below advertisement 'He looked at me like I was crazy,' he said. Denny Webster, who owns the facility, told Global News that on any other day, he likely would have turned Steve away, but as luck would have it, the facility had only received three truckloads on Thursday and he just couldn't say no. 'It wasn't much of a sales pitch for me to be optimistic of finding anything, until he told me there was popcorn and a Tim Hortons box, and he looked pretty desperate,' he said. 'So I thought, well, let's go up and I'll give you an hour of my time and see what we can find, not expecting to find anything, hopefully just so he could go home and tell his wife he put in an honest effort.' The duo worked out a system with Denny using an excavator to pull out and spread a scoop at a time and Steve going through it with a shovel. After about 40 minutes, they hit the jackpot: the popcorn bag turned up, and with it, the first ring. 'I called my wife, she was at Princess Auto buying a metal detector just in case,' Steve said. 1:23 Actor Jon Cryer reunited with lost wedding ring on Vancouver seawall Not long afterward, they found another patch of popcorn and the other ring. Story continues below advertisement 'Amazing. I can't believe he did it. I'm glad he did it. I'm still shocked they're on my finger, but I know he'd do it again and again for me, if he had to,' Jeannine said. 'He loves me that much that he would actually go into that pile and search.' Steve gives full credit to Webster for helping him find the rings. He said the facility owner refused to accept the majority of a cash reward for the help, asking instead for a social media shout-out for the Mission compost. 'Sometimes people have to do good things for no money, and he forced me to take some money,' Webster said. Webster added that the rings would have been impossible to find if another load had arrived or the bags had more time to compost. Even so, he said the chances of the recovery were beyond slim. 2:21 High school sweethearts find lost wedding ring 50 years later 'I would have said none, but we proved that wrong so very close to none,' he said, adding he was shocked when the first one turned up. Story continues below advertisement 'Then I thought maybe he stood a chance, and maybe he's not as crazy as I thought.' The Van Ysseldyks remain beyond grateful to Webster, describing him as a 'wonderful person.' Jeannine, meanwhile, plans to keep a close eye on the jewelry going forward. 'It's such sentimental value. They're your wedding rings on your finger every day, 24 hours a day,' she said. 'I was so so devastated when they were lost, and I didn't sleep all night — it was not a great feeling, whatsoever.'
National Post
2 days ago
- General
- National Post
Wedding rings lost — and found! — in 'stinky, gross, wet' compost pile at B.C. landfill
Article content There are things worse than a needle in a haystack. Try two precious wedding rings, lost somewhere in a slimy heap of compost — about three dump trucks' worth. Article content That's the impossible situation Steve Van Ysseldyk found himself in last week when his wife, Jeannine, misplaced her rings while cleaning up a bag of movie theatre popcorn that had spilled onto their lawn. Article content Article content Article content They scoured the lawn but nothing turned up. Garbage day had come and gone, which meant the popcorn bag — and perhaps the rings — would have been loaded onto a truck and shipped to the landfill on Dewdney Trunk Road operated by the City of Mission. Article content Determined to do his best to retrieve the irreplaceable keepsakes, Van Ysseldyk showed up at the dump the next morning — which just happened to be an unseasonably wet, drizzly summer Friday. Article content Enter our hero, Denny Webster, a subcontractor who manages the organics coming into the dump for the City of Mission. Article content Article content Undeterred, Webster 'scooped it up a scoop at a time, swung it around and thinned it out. I had a shovel I'd brought with me, and I started picking through it all,' said Van Ysseldyk. Article content After more than half an hour of this, 'I came across part of it, with some popcorn, and within 30 seconds, I was like, 'OK, there's one ring.'' Article content It was the anniversary ring, but the solitaire was still missing. Van Ysseldyk asked Webster where he'd found that lucky batch of trash. He pointed to an area around back, and the intrepid hunter resumed his search. Article content 'Sure enough, there was the other half of my compost, with more popcorn and part of the bag. I started gingerly sifting through it, not to disturb it too much. Literally, I probably found the two rings within just over an hour.'
National Post
2 days ago
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- National Post
Wedding rings lost — and found! — in 'stinky, gross, wet' compost pile at Mission landfill
There are things worse than a needle in a haystack. Try two precious wedding rings, lost somewhere in a slimy heap of compost — about three dump trucks' worth. Article content That's the impossible situation Steve Van Ysseldyk found himself in last week when his wife, Jeannine, misplaced her rings while cleaning up a bag of movie theatre popcorn that had spilled onto their lawn. Article content Article content Article content They scoured the lawn but nothing turned up. Garbage day had come and gone, which meant the popcorn bag — and perhaps the rings — would have been loaded onto a truck and shipped to the landfill on Dewdney Trunk Road operated by the City of Mission. Article content Determined to do his best to retrieve the irreplaceable keepsakes, Van Ysseldyk showed up at the dump the next morning — which just happened to be an unseasonably wet, drizzly summer Friday. Article content Enter our hero, Denny Webster, a subcontractor who manages the organics coming into the dump for the City of Mission. Article content Article content Article content Undeterred, Webster 'scooped it up a scoop at a time, swung it around and thinned it out. I had a shovel I'd brought with me, and I started picking through it all,' said Van Ysseldyk. Article content After more than half an hour of this, 'I came across part of it, with some popcorn, and within 30 seconds, I was like, 'OK, there's one ring.'' Article content It was the anniversary ring, but the solitaire was still missing. Van Ysseldyk asked Webster where he'd found that lucky batch of trash. He pointed to an area around back, and the intrepid hunter resumed his search. Article content 'Sure enough, there was the other half of my compost, with more popcorn and part of the bag. I started gingerly sifting through it, not to disturb it too much. Literally, I probably found the two rings within just over an hour.'
Local France
10-02-2025
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- Local France
How often you should wash your clothes, according to the French government
France's agency for environment and energy (Agence de l'environnement et de la maîtrise de l'énergie, ADEME) has issued recommendations to help people decrease their energy consumption - including how often to wash your clothes. The agency published a 16-page informative guide on 'How to clean in a more environmentally friendly way' with advice ranging from how often you should use bleach products to the frequency at which you should wash your clothes. So how often should I wash my clothes? According to ADEME, "Not all clothes are dirty after being worn once. Washing too often increases household electricity consumption, increases water pollution and wears out our clothes faster. "That's why it's best to wait until you have enough laundry to wash before starting a cycle. Avoid half loads, which consume less water but just as much electricity." The agency's most recent publication does not offer exact timelines for exactly when you should wash jeans, T-shirts and coats. Instead it separates clothes into the categories of wash 'after one use', 'after several uses', 'after several weeks'. However, French daily Le Parisien published an infographic with older information from ADEME (here and here). This advice states you should wash Underwear - after one use Sport clothing - after one to three uses Cotton shirts - after four to five uses Dresses - after four to six uses Bras - after seven uses Pyjamas - after seven uses Wool jumper - after 10-15 uses Jeans - after 15-30 uses Reactions Not everyone has welcomed the recommendations, particularly regarding how often jeans should be washed. One France Bleu Another reader, Jeannine told the French news site: "For me, when you wear a pair of trousers for two or three days, that's the maximum. There's a smell, and you can feel that they're dirty when you touch them." Others have pinpointed their frustration at ADEME specifically. Georges, a 74-year-old in Doubs, France told Le Dauphine Libéré"I think there are big savings to be made by not wasting our money on this agency." In response, the head of ADEME, Sylvain Waserman, told ici Alsace: "ADEME's money is primarily used to finance engineers who work on the decarbonisation of companies, energy and heat networks, and the decontamination of sites (...) these recommendations are not the core of ADEME's activity. "I can reassure you. Everyone can do what they want, and when the garment is dirty, they wash it. There is no problem. The idea is to raise awareness and to bring another perspective to our daily actions," Waserman said. The head of ADEME also pointed to other tips, like buying solid soap instead of shower gel in a plastic bottle, which by his estimate could save '10 Eiffel Towers worth of plastic'. The ADEME website also has other helpful tools, including a simulator to get a better idea of how much CO2 is emitted from various daily activities. You can test it out here.
