The Editor,
Last week, my husband, Ray McCurrach was driving and noticed a purse at the side of the road.
He picked it up, looked through it and came across what appeared to be the owner’s address. He went to the residence and no such lady lived there (must have been her previous address).
He went though her purse more and found a registration for a kids camp with an address on it. He went to this address in Port Coquitlam and found out it is the owner’s daughter’s home.
She called her mom and told her that someone found her purse and was just dropping it off. The mom told her daughter to give Ray $20; he said no, of course. (Her mother had driven off with her purse on the roof of her car.)
Well, just now, this kind lady knocked on our front door with a handwritten card and a tin of homemade cookies. This is what her card reads: “To the man in the red truck. Thank you for finding my purse and calling on my daughter. It’s nice to know there are still honest people in the world. Made you some cookies because you wouldn’t take money.”
It turns out this lady has quite a background with cookies — she has donated more than $60,000 to charities.
Nancy McCurrach, Port Coquitlam
Editor’s note: Ms. McCurrach is right about the cookie lady and her charitable ways. The Tri-City News profiled her in 2014 on the occasion of her retirement. And for a little more PoCo pride, we’d like to point out that Ms. McCurrach was honoured recently in Washington, D.C. as the United Steelworkers’ Jefferson Awards Foundation champion volunteer for 2017 for her work with refugees in the Tri-Cities. The Tri-City News did a story on that, too.
