Just over a week ago local resident Caitlyn Gregg said she realized she’d accidentally dropped about $140 in cash outside her home.
“I ran down our driveway and started looking around our car and I found a few twenties all scattered all over the ground. Some had blown into the bushes nearby,” Gregg said.
With the help of her neighbours she located $80 of it, but said, about $60 remained missing.
Just in case, and at the prompting of her fellow islanders, Gregg posted her story on the Bowen Island Everything Else that she’d lost “several $20 bills in the street just in front of The Legion.”
“If anyone stumbled upon them and would return them – I’m the dummy who dropped them,” Gregg wrote. That was March 12 at 6:20 p.m., and included a photo of a $20.
The next morning, she woke up to a message on the local Facebook group from someone saying his daughter had found $60 outside the Legion and wanted to return it, writing: "Only on Bowen, baby!"
“I was so touched,” Gregg said, adding this week marks her one-year anniversary since moving to Bowen from Hawaii.
“It made me feel really proud to part of a cute and really sweet community.”
Not a bad welcome!
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