Is this your ring? A Dundas grocery store worker is trying to return it to you

A quest is underway to find the owner of Dundas' glass slipper, a gold ring etched with an anniversary.

Engraved with initials followed by with love" and an anniversary date - May 25, 1957 - the ring was found outside the Dundas Valley Metro on the same date in 2022.

It's their 65th wedding anniversary," said Marilyn Meagher, the grocery store worker who has taken on the task of finding its owner. It broke my heart that this ring would be lost when somebody was married that long."

The ring is solid gold and looks masculine," she said. But it's not very big."

The lifelong Dundas resident said a colleague found the ring in the parking lot last week. When she realized it wasn't costume jewelry, she moved it from the service desk windowsill they use for small lost-and-found items to a locked drawer.

She and some of her co-workers are really invested in seeing it get home."

Meagher, who has worked at the store for 22 years, turned to Facebook, writing a post that has since been shared about 500 times. Some commenters offered to pass information on to friends at nearby condos and retirement homes.

Based on the anniversary date, Meagher assumes the ring belongs to a senior - which, given our demographics, makes sense, she said.

We're surrounded by old age homes, apartments, condos," she said.

On Monday, Meagher had a breakthrough - or so she thought. A friend found a wedding anniversary announcement with the same date and one of the initials - R" - in the paper. Meagher got in contact with the couple through a family member she found on Facebook, but the woman was vague" and didn't seem to recognize the ring.

So, Meagher continued her search.

It's ... in the drawer at the service desk locked up, waiting for somebody to claim it, waiting for that finger that had it on 65 years ago," she said.

Kate McCullough is an education reporter at The Spectator. kmccullough@thespec.com