Michelle Sauve has her engagement ring back almost 20 months after she lost it. (Photo Courtesy Bob Schneider)

By Chris Brown

Diamond in the rough

Stranger reunites woman with engagement ring lost in March 2020

Oct 7, 2021 | 5:03 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – Michelle Sauve was heartbroken when she lost her diamond engagement ring while out for a walk. On Sunday, got the news she’d been waiting for more than a year and a half.

“I had a message from a fellow named Ryenne who said he found my ring and he had a video and my husband was in the kitchen with me and I just kept saying ‘oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I can not believe it.”’

Sauve and her husband of nearly 25 years were walking along the fence between Connaught Golf Course and Trans-Canada Way when she lost the ring. She said her hand swells, forcing her to sometimes wear the ring on a different finger.

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In the days and weeks after she lost the ring last year, dozens of friends and family members helped her look and some strangers even helped.

One stranger started looking this summer.

Ryenne Foltz watches social media for opportunities to reunite people with lost items.

Ryenne Foltz at the spot he found the ring. (Photo Courtesy Bob Schneider)

He started searching about four months ago and searched the area more than 20 times.

“I was determined to find it, that’s all I can really say,” Foltz said. “I wasn’t going to give up until I found it. I just about did give up for the day and I turned around and there it was. It let off a tone, I thought well I’ll just dig it and sure enough there it was.”

Foltz was out on another search when the ring was returned to Sauve, so she calls him the most amazing determined man she’s never met.

Foltz has started a Facebook group called Lost Ring Recovery. He hopes more people will contact him so he or other metal detectors can create more happy reunions.