Wedding ring found in fundraising can

EDISON - If your name is Jack and you're missing a wedding ring, the Bishop Ahr High School girls softball team is looking for you.

While fundraising on the corner of Parsonage Road and Route 27 on Jan. 27, team members found a wedding ring that had been dropped in a fundraising can the girls were toting.

Team parent Tom Sharlow said that sometime during the afternoon, he was emptying the contents of the fundraising jug and noticed the wedding band had been put inside.

"I dumped the container out and there was the wedding ring," Sharlow said.

The ring is engraved with the name "Jack," which Sharlow thinks is the man's name who owns it.

Sharlow, no stranger to this kind of fundraising, said that he's had some interesting things put into a can, but never anything like this.

"Somebody put a scratch-off lottery ticket in," Sharlow said. "It won 10 bucks. I've been doing this awhile; this is the first time anything like this has happened. We've found a lot, but never a ring."

Sharlow said the girls had township permits to fundraise in the street in front of stores at the corner of Parsonage and Route 27. When people stopped at red lights, the girls would approach and people would donate. He conjectures that someone had the wedding ring mixed in with his change and inadvertently dropped it into the bucket, but there is no way to know for sure unless someone comes forward.

Sharlow offered another possibility as to how it happened.

"Maybe the guy wants a divorce and he wanted to get rid of the ring," Sharlow said. "I would have thought he'd pawn it, though."

Sharlow said everyone is eager to get the ring back to the rightful owner.