Our President Bruce Gentner and his wife Squeek were still recovering from the effort put forth to provide a holiday party for 150 people. However the spirit of metal detecting took over and they decided to hunt the beach. Lora Persgard joined them too.

The three of them arrived early and worked a grid area for 3 hours and found a few coins. Bruce also found a nice gold ring with sapphires. As the tide changed, coins were popping up everywhere. At this point Trish showed up and was excited about seeing the detectorists there and she related how she lost the ring. She was standing in thigh deep water to the left of the lifeguard tower. A man and his wife were throwing a ball that hit Trish in the hand and the precious ring fell off into the water. She had spent the last two nights with a flashlight looking for her ring. Bruce and Squeek continued talking with Trish and since now the tide was lower and the beach was producing, Lora decided to slowly make her way towards the lifeguard tower. Coins were everywhere and she was goofing around and holding up each coin as her friends watched. She heard a loud target and pulled up a long dog choker chain then went over the hole, like every good detectorists does, and got a soft, faint sound. Her thought was,"hum, must be the dog tag." In fact it was a ring. She figured this must be fake for the diamonds were huge. But she remembered this was like the ring Trish described: a large marquise in the center, two marquises on the side with baguettes set in platinum with 18K gold bars on the side. She held it up and waved it back and forth to let Bruce, Squeek and Trish know she had found something important.

Trish told everyone, after all the hugs and tears, that she believed in angels and it wasn't just coincidence she picked that metal detecting shop out of the phone book. Or that she decided to walk on the beach the same day our trio was there and actually saw her ring recovered. Trish did ask what she could give for a reward but was told that her joy was enough.

With some time off of work, Lora and Squeek decided to detect Dog Beach again later in the week. A man and his wife stopped them and asked if they were the ones who found the now famous ring. He admitted he was the guy who threw the ball that hit Trish's hand and thought her anguish of a lost ring was some kind of a hoax. That is until he heard it had been found.