Long lost bracelet randomly appears

By Mark Ribble

Friends and family of Herb Enns think he should go to the casino or buy a lottery ticket after a rare and unusual ‘find’ on his Road 8 farm last week.

As luck would have it, he found something — totally by accident — that he thought he’d never see again.

The former Leamington councillor moved into town about six years ago from the family farm on the 8th Concession east of Blytheswood.

The Enns family had farmed the land there for many years.

Prior to the move, Herb remembers losing a magnetic bracelet he had been wearing for a few years.

“The guy I bought it from told me it would help me live a long life,” he laughed.

Last week he was visiting the farm and going around the field with a shovel testing the depth of the soil when he suddenly heard a ‘clink’.

Herb Enns wearing his magnetic bracelet and kneeling in the field where he found the long-lost jewellery last week. The odds of randomly uncovering a bracelet that’s been underground for six years are astronomical — especially among 50 acres. Herb’s friends urged him to get to the casino and keep his luck going, but he declined.

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“It was the third spot I put my shovel in,” he said. “I reached down to see what I’d hit and there it was.”

The bracelet was pretty dirty and slightly tarnished but in otherwise good shape for being underground for over six years.

“I cleaned it up and put it back on my wrist,” he said. “To think that out of these 50 acres, I would put the shovel in the exact spot where the bracelet was — that’s incredible.”

This is not the first time that missing jewellery has turned up on the farm, he says.

“Years ago, we had a family from Quebec who was helping us harvest tomatoes,” he said. “The lady dropped her Timex watch somewhere along the way and wasn’t able to find it.”

The following spring — as he was applying nitrogen to the field — something caught his eye in the distance. It was reflecting off the sun.

“I went to the spot where the glare was coming from and there was her watch,” he said. “It was still working too.”

Now, he’s hoping that luck will rub off on yet another lost piece of jewellery on the farm. His father lost his gold Bulova watch from Schmidt Jewellers on the farm during the 1960s and never recovered it.

“I’m still waiting,” says Herb. “Maybe someday it’ll turn up.”