Heirloom Ring Flushed; Sewer Workers Retrieve It

CENTRAL POINT, Oregon: It took sewer workers in southern Oregon a couple of days of looking, but they finally found a 1920 wedding ring a local woman lost in a church toilet.

Pat Hanson of Central Point tells the Medford Mail Tribune it was her mother's ring, and she's been wearing it for about 25 years.

Lately, Hanson says, she's lost weight due to a fall, and the ring slipped off when she used the restroom earlier this month.

The regional sewer agency, Rogue Valley Sewer Services, sent out four workers, with two trucks and portable closed-circuit television cameras to inspect the line.

Eventually workers came back to plug the pipe and vacuum out the line. Finally, a worker spotted the ring.

It's been cleaned up and, Hanson says, repaired and resized.