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CTV News
a day ago
- General
- CTV News
B.C. man digs through dump to find wife's lost wedding rings
A mission man sifted through tons and tons of garbage at the dump to find his wife's wedding and anniversary rings. A Mission man has recovered his wife's lost wedding and anniversary rings, after an unusual and rather stinky search through 18 tonnes of compost at the local dump. Steve Van Ysseldyk's wife, Jeannine, noticed the rings were missing after washing her hands at a restaurant. 'We left the restaurant, I'm like, I can't even wait for the check,' she said. The couple retraced their steps and realized the rings must have gone missing the night before. After an outing at the movies, Jeannine Van Ysseldyk had brought some popcorn home, but spilled it on the lawn. Somehow, while picking it up and tossing it into the compost, the jewelry must have come off. By the time the couple figured it out, their garbage and compost had already been collected. 'I said I'd go to the dump in the morning and ask them if I could go through the compost pile,' said her husband. Few people thought he had any chance of finding the rings, including an employee at the Mission Sanitary Landfill. 'My brain was trying to figure out a way to tell him to go buy his wife new wedding rings,' said contractor Denny Webster. But admiring Van Ysseldyk's determination, Webster agreed to help. He used an excavator to isolate smaller sections of the compost pile so Van Ysseldyk could begin his search. 'When he has something on his mind, he makes sure he does it. He follows through,' said his wife. So, Van Ysseldyk began sifting through those piles and began to recognize his household waste, including a popcorn bag. Astonishingly, within an hour, he found one ring, and then the other. 'And it was all slimy with popcorn and butter,' described Webster. So, husband called wife to deliver the good news. 'She basically broke down crying, cried all the way home,' he said. Against the odds, and despite the smell, the search was a success. With a smile, Jeannine Van Ysseldyk insisted their 26-year-old marriage is now even stronger. 'Well, yes, because I know how much he loves me, that he's willing to go through a rotten, stinky compost pile,' she said, laughing.
CBC
a day ago
- CBC
#TheMoment a couple found their lost wedding rings at the dump
Steve and Jeannine Van Ysseldyk recount the moment Steve found Jeannine's lost wedding rings at the landfill in Mission, B.C., after the rings fell into a compost bin.
National Post
2 days ago
- General
- 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.'
