North Vancouver RCMP and members of the Harvest Project are trying to unlock the mystery of why someone would donate a bag full of house and car keys, and who they belong to.
Rather than the clothing or food donations, which the Harvest Project gladly accepts and distributes to the North Shore's needy, someone dropped off a bag containing roughly 14 sets of keys into one of the Harvest Project's community donation boxes.
A Harvest Project staff member handed them over the RCMP and put the word out on the online community website Reddit with the hope of connecting the keys with their original owners.
"We are systematically going through them. We've been able to return two of them and we're working on a couple others," said Cpl. Richard De Jong. North Vancouver RCMP spokesman. "Some of them were (lost) several months ago. At this point, we're not sure how they came to be all in the possession of one person and why they were dropped off. It is a bit odd."
The Harvest Project does receive strange donations from time to time, said executive director Gary Ansell, often when someone is put in charge of clearing out the closets and cupboards of a recently deceased friend or family member and handing the contents over to local charities.
"It is unusual but we can see how it could happen. We'd like to reach out to the community for them to claim their keys - if they're missing any - at the RCMP ," Ansell said. "It's likely that a well-intentioned person may have collected a whole bunch of stuff from somebody's apartment quite legitimately and we would receive it as a donation. And we'd encourage folks to continue to donate. If they haven't thought of donating, with winter coming up, we'd love to see clothing and food donations."
Donations can be made at the 1073 Roosevelt Cres. or online at harvestproject.org.
