By Sam Rosalie
May 6, 2021
Today’s submission from Kelli Buntz shines a light on New Jersey sanitation employees Jovani Quiles, Ramon Nazario, Alfredo Perez, and Paul Deola.
I think we can all agree that our sanitation workers are under appreciated- they have a physically demanding, and extremely necessary job. But these 4 took it to the next level.
So mom Ruth Watson was cleaning up around the house, and temporarily put her wedding ring and her wallet in a bag with other items. Her 10-year-old son mistook that bag for garbage, and brought it out to the curb.
By the time mom realized it, the truck was long gone.
By - Associated Press - Wednesday, May 5, 2021
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - Four Atlantic County Utilities Authority employees have helped a New Jersey woman find her wedding ring after it was accidentally thrown away.
Ruth Watson’s 10-year-old son thought he was being helpful when he threw a plastic bag out with the trash last Friday, NJ Advance Media reported. However, inside that bag was Watson’s wedding ring, wallet, and some other items.
“I can’t tell you how I felt,” Watson said. “I had so much to do that day and I couldn’t do a thing. I just kept thinking I’ve got to get that ring back.”
“I immediately called the trash company,” Watson-Utley said.
Word quickly spread to crews from the Atlantic County Utilities Authority.
“I was like, ‘Alright. We got to go to the dump. Dump it,’” Jovani Quiles, a member of the Atlantic County Utilities Authority, told NBC10.
For an hour and a half, Quiles, Ramon Nazario, Paul Deola and Alfredo Perez dug through about ten tons of trash at a New Jersey landfill. Finally, they found Watson-Utley’s precious rings.
“It was very overwhelming and at the end, I was happy because I did a good deed for somebody that was looking for something valuable,” Quiles said.
Garbage workers dig through mountain of trash to find N.J. woman’s wedding ring
Updated May 04, 2021;
Posted May 04, 2021
The pile of household trash at a landfill in Vineland, where workers for the Atlantic County Utilities Authority found a Vineland mother s wedding ring.ACUA
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But what he didn’t know was that his mother’s wedding ring was inside.
“It was just a shopping bag from Dollar General and I had set it aside while we were cleaning. But my wallet and ring were inside that bag,” Watson, 41, said Tuesday.
By the time Watson ran outside, the garbage men had come and gone. Also gone was Watson’s wedding ring.
“I immediately called the trash company,” Watson-Utley said.
Word quickly spread to crews from the Atlantic County Utilities Authority.
“I was like, ‘Alright. We got to go to the dump. Dump it,’” Jovani Quiles, a member of the Atlantic County Utilities Authority, told NBC10.
For an hour and a half, Quiles, Ramon Nazario, Paul Deola and Alfredo Perez dug through about ten tons of trash at a New Jersey landfill. Finally, they found Watson-Utley’s precious rings.
“It was very overwhelming and at the end, I was happy because I did a good deed for somebody that was looking for something valuable,” Quiles said.