We have some good news to share in this week's newspaper.
Near the end of July, Charla Pamplin, a floral arranger at Main Street Floral, discovered her wedding ring was missing. And it wasn't just her diamond wedding ring with all the importance and memories normally assigned to a wedding ring. It was a special ring for it had also been her late mother-in-law's diamond wedding ring.
Charla and her associates at Main Street Floral launched an immediate hunt for the ring. They searched the store from top to bottom and even looked through the dumpster to no avail. A $100 reward was then offered but the ring remained AWOL for two months.
Friday afternoon, the Federal Express parcel service driver named Jenn entered the store through the back door and asked if anyone there had lost or knew anything about a missing wedding ring. She reported she had stepped on what appeared to be a lost wedding ring in the alley behind the store.
The lost ring was no longer lost, it had been found,
The ring was bent but it is repairable.
Charla and her co-workers expect the ring was originally lost in one of the buckets kept in the flower cooler to hold cut flowers. The buckets are taken to the alley and the water dumped at varying frequencies. Apparently the bucket with the ring had recently been dumped for the first time since the ring had been lost.
The ring was originally given to Angela Pamplin by Jack Pamplin, a soldier stationed in Germany when he and Angela met.
After their marriage, Angela returned with him to the States and they established their home at Hastings.
Tom and Charla now live along Highway 4 east of Lawrence and west of Highway 14.
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