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Editor:

We were at Gilligan’s Pub last Saturday for our annual Suncoast Racquet Club pub night fundraiser.

After about an hour I discovered that my little back pack was missing containing my wallet and iPhone. My husband Ron had put an app on our phone “Find my iPhone” so I fetched our iPad.

There we were huddled in the rain outside the pub, watching the map as a little icon of our phone moved up the highway. The pub called the RCMP and a young officer appeared. She too joined the huddle and began to talk to her partner who was in a car on the highway.

Meanwhile the icon went through Halfmoon Bay on Redrooffs Road, and then started to come back along the highway. Closer and closer it came. The officer with us radioed the locations. The icon was at Norwest Bay Road. The other officer said on the radio “It’s a bus! I’ll pull it over.”

The icon stopped moving. Two minutes later “I’ve got the pack!”

Apparently someone had taken it by mistake from the pub, left it at a bus stop, and then a passenger had given it to the bus driver who had carried it around on his route.

The pack was like Paddington Bear, but found on a bus not at a railway station.

Absolutely nothing was missing. So kudos to the RCMP, especially Cpl. Larson, and the passenger who rescued the pack. And we ended up with a very successful fundraising effort. Only on the Sunshine Coast!

Gillian Kydd, Roberts Creek