Christmas Wedding Ring Stories: Some take while others give
The winter Holidays are full of emotion, both the negative and the positive kind. During this favorite time of year, many people feel in the giving mood and not only purchase gifts for their friends and loved ones, but donate gifts, time, and money to charities. When the Christmas Spirit is alive in the air, many offer more than they would during other less festive times of the year, and organizations that rely on donations look forward to December contributions. While the Holiday’s are a giving time, they are also a time where many less fortunate folks can become depressed and perhaps act in harmful and negative ways. There is an increased stress level among many scrooge-like Americans, and crime can actually increase. The winter holiday news is full of stories of both the giving and the taking kind.
This month in Edmonton there was one such event, unfortunately not the giving kind. Cam Fraser has been playing Santa Claus for the local “Uncles and Aunts at Large,” Christmas party for the past 25 years, but this year may regret it. Prior to attending the event, Fraser placed his wife’s unique diamond wedding ring into a small jewelers bag so that he could take it in to have a missing diamond repaired. Fraser was sure that the ring was in his pocket when he changed into his Santa Suite, but later it was missing. It was not an extremely expensive diamond wedding ring, but it was rather unique. Two-tone white and yellow gold, the wedding ring has five diamonds surrounded by several smaller diamonds. He is so interested in the return of his wife’s wedding ring that Cam is offering a reward for its safe return and the jewelry store is aiding in his cause.
Stealing Santa’s wife’s unique diamond wedding ring definitely counteracts the positive Christmas spirit, but there are also new stories that remind us some people haven’t forgotten what is important this time of year. Outside a King Soopers in Westminster County, someone slipped an extra special donation into the red Salvation Army kettle. The Salvation Army has placed volunteers outside store entrances for decades, ringing their bells and eager for donations to help the organization feed and house the needy. They are used to receiving extra coins, and perhaps the occasional dollar bills, but this time they received something much more valuable. The mystery person, whether with a full and giving heart or an empty and broken heart, slipped an antique platinum and diamond wedding ring valued at $1400 inside the bell ringer’s red kettle. There was no mistaking the gift as an accident because the ring had been placed inside a small plastic bag with a note that read, “For Salvation Army.” The owner of this ring may have had some sad emotions backing their generous donation, but at least we can be reminded that while some take from others this time of year, some are very eager to give.
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