1 RING TO YULE ’EM ALL
Hunt for owner
A Rockland County man was helping sort through donations for the homeless when he made a startling find in a bag of canned goods — an engraved wedding band.
Now he and his relatives are on a mission to find whoever lost the ring.
Gary Cirlin of New City told The Post that he and his brother-in-law were sifting through donated bags of canned goods and other food for a charity at the Nyack College auditorium on Christmas Eve when they came upon the ring.
“We were just doing our thing, having our little system. We must have opened hundreds of bags,” Cirlin, 37, recalled Monday.
“That’s when my brotherin-law opened up a bag that had tuna or pasta in it and went, ‘Oh, my God!’ He found this wedding ring.”
Cirlin’s family and the Nyack Homeless Project, which collected the donations, have now teamed up to return the white-gold band.
The ring bears an engraved message, but they are keeping it a secret so they can use it to verify the owner.
“No one donating food should lose their wedding ring,” Cirlin said. “I’ve always hated the phrase ‘ No good deed goes unpunished,’ and this is my personal quest to prove that wrong.”
Doing good is a holiday tradition for the Cirlins.
The family puts on a Christmas-light show at their home every year, called the New City North Pole Airport, to spread cheer and raise donations for other local charities.
They are spreading the word about the ring on the light show’s Facebook page, which has 1,200 followers.
“We’re going to do everything we can to find this person,” Cirlin said.
The father of two plans to go to supermarkets Tuesday to spread the word.
“It’s a small community,” he said. “Somebody’s got to know somebody who’s upset on Christmas because they lost their ring.”