What turned up at Churchill Park’s music pageant

Churchill Park Music Festival staffers Scott Tilley and Joella Lomond say the pageant may need wrapped up, however the lost-and-found bin continues to be filled with a number of objects, together with a single sparkly cowboy boot. (Zach Goudie/CBC)

Anyone lacking a single sparkly cowboy boot, their home keys, bank cards or prescription glasses?

These are simply among the random fine details which have turned up after the Churchill Park Music Festival, say organizers, who’ve been matching lost-and-found objects with their homeowners.

While the revellers and musicians have packed up and left the St. John’s discipline, pageant staffers Scott Tilley and Joella Lomond are nonetheless working to reunite folks with their misplaced valuables.

“There’s cellphones, debit, credit cards, prescription glasses, sunglasses, vapour cigarettes, medications, even a tackle box and passports,” Tilley instructed CBC News. “There’s all kinds of all kinds of items.”

He mentioned a lady just lately contacted him in regards to the deal with field and recounted the way it ended up on the pageant.

“She explained that she took her son’s knapsack to the concert to sit on,” he mentioned.

Also within the stash are the keys to a Honda car, in addition to keys for different gadgets.

“My gosh, we’ve had keys for everything — mailboxes, cars, houses,” mentioned Lomond.

Tilley mentioned different important objects within the bin embrace photograph identification playing cards in addition to debit and bank cards.

“I haven’t counted them, but there are a lot here. People have lost a lot of their credit cards, and we’ve reunited quite a few people with their cards, IDs, purses and wallets so far this weekend.”

‘It’s fairly a set’

He added there have been two passports, certainly one of which had been collected as of Monday.

There can be a single glowing cowboy boot within the lost-and-found bin.

“Too bad they didn’t have the pair — the match — to go with it,” Lomond mentioned, laughing.

Tilley mentioned the objects which have gathered within the misplaced and located bin from the latest pageant are a bit uncommon.

“For two weekends it’s quite a collection. Usually, our concerts are a weekend,” he mentioned.

Tilley added they’re reunited a number of folks with their objects already, together with homeowners of about 20 cellphones.

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