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$85,000 in cash found inside Value Village donation bag By Rick Da Conceicao
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Two employees at a Value Village production facility in East Vancouver were shocked this week when they found $85,000 in a donated bag.
Store manager Jeffrey Stonehouse said as soon as the money was found, their company policy required them to tally it and call police who were able to identify the owner of the money by using a bank receipt that was mixed in with the cash.
“She wasn’t too sure what it was, it was just an old shopping bag with what looked like envelopes and papers. So, she pulled out the first envelope, and ripped it open, and leaned over the table and said, ‘not much!’ Just leaned over and shouted it to me. We quickly left the sales floor, the production floor, with the bag, and went to the office, and started to do an investigation on what we had found,” Stonehouse explained.
VANCOUVER — Value Village employees often find sums of long-forgotten money tucked into donated jackets or purses. But store manager Jeffrey Stonehouse has never found a sum as big as $85,000. . . .
VANCOUVER Staff at a Vancouver Value Village were dumfounded this week when they discovered a donated bag containing a large sum of cash that was accidentally included. Store manager Jeffrey Stonehouse said as soon as the money was found, their company policy required them to tally it and call police. “It was in excess of $85,000,” Stonehouse said, explaining usually when cash is found within donated clothing, it doesn’t add up to more than pocket change. He said the money was in the form of very old bills, the most recent of which was from 1988. Stonehouse also said that with the cash there were documents that pointed back to the presumed owner.
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But store manager Jeffrey Stonehouse has never found a sum as big as $85,000.
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“I have the exact amount here $85,549,” he told Postmedia News on Thursday. “That is certainly the largest sum we’ve ever found.”
Stonehouse has worked with Value Village for 15 years, managing the Hastings Street store and a processing depot on Venables Street.
On Monday, he and a co-worker were going through recently donated items when his co-worker opened a yellow plastic bag to reveal what appeared to be bank deposit books and stacks of envelopes.