A Rockland County family with the Christmas spirit was sifting through charity donations – and was stunned to find an engraved wedding band amid a trove of canned goods.
Now, the Cirlins of New City are trying to find whoever lost the band.
Gary Cirlin and his brother-in-law were sorting donations at the Nyack College auditorium on Christmas Eve when they made the discovery.
“That’s when my brother-in-law opened up a bag that had tuna or pasta in it and went, ‘Oh my God.’ He found this wedding ring,” said Cirlin.
Cirlin, 37, and the Nyack Homeless Project, the recipient of the donations, have teamed up to try and return the white gold ring. They’re keeping the engraved message a secret so they can use it to verify the owner, Cirlin said.
“No one donating food should lose their wedding ring,” he said. “I’ve always hated the phrase ‘No good deed goes unpunished’ and this is my personal quest to prove that wrong.”
Trying to return the ring isn’t the family’s only Christmas quest.
The Cirlins put on a Christmas light show at their home every year called the New City North Pole Airport to spread cheer and raise donations for other local charities.
They’re trying to spread the word using the light show’s Facebook page, which is followed by 1,200 people.
“We’re going to do everything we can to find this person,” he said.
Cirlin, a dad of two, said he plans on going to supermarkets tomorrow to spread the word.
“It’s a small community,” he said. “Somebody’s gotta know somebody who’s upset on Christmas because they lost their ring.”