Wallet returned after 21 years

More than two decades after her wallet was stolen, Patsy Stansfield has had it returned.

The Newton resident was working at B.C. Hothouse in 1986 when her wallet went missing from the office.

“It was during Expo, and I lost my Expo card and that was the thing I was most worried about,” Stansfield said Monday. “I had a season’s pass.”

Two weeks ago, a member of the road crew widening Highway 10 found the wallet in a ditch and brought it to the RCMP.

Stansfield was amazed to have it back.

“I was really surprised because it was 21 years ago,” she said.

A little less than $20 was missing from it as well has her prized Expo card. The rest, she said, was intact.

“I got my birth certificate, my social insurance card, my driver’s licence, my B.C. ID,” she said. “But they took the Expo card and the money.”

She didn’t get a chance to thank the road worker who returned the wallet.

“Just the police called me and said they found my wallet and asked me if I wanted it,” she said.

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