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Treasure hunter tracks wedding ring Olivia Soquila found item just in time for anniversary MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com
Olivia Soquila was on a picnic in Port Moody’s Rocky Point Park when she lost her wedding ring in the grass. It was found by a hobbyist metal detector who’s created a global network of similar afficianados who help reunite people with their lost jewelry. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
A Port Moody woman who lost her one-of-a-kind wedding ring is breathing a sigh of relief after the kingpin of a global network of treasure-hunting sleuths tracked down the keepsake in time for her anniversary. Olivia Soquila first noticed something was missing weeks earlier, after a picnic with a friend and her twin infant children at Port Moody’s Rocky Point Park. Soquila said her “heart stopped” when she realized at the end of a busy day that the ring, a large precious stone set on a teardrop-shaped bed of small
diamonds, was no longer on her finger. Her mind raced from the window sill behind her kitchen sink where she removes it to do dishes to the park when she went to apply sunscreen to her children. That night she spent three hours raking through the grass near Pajo’s fish and chips, a headlamp affixed to her head, her quest complicated by the thick bed of grass clippings that had piled up from a mower while she was gone. “I thought for sure it would be damaged,” Soquila said. Despite her methodical search, the ring didn’t reveal itself. Soquila retraced her steps to and from where she had parked on Murray Street that morning. Nothing. see
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