Two North Vancouver boys who lost a playhouse in an apparent mix-up with a passerby have got their treasured toy back thanks to their plea in Friday's North Shore News.
Taylor and Trevor Snell, five and seven years old, were thunderstruck Monday morning when they got up to find their Little Tykes Playhouse gone from the front yard of their St. James Road home. The youngsters had only recently moved the mini log house from the back of their family's property to the front in order to set up a "snack shack" from which to sell homemade cookies for a children's charity.
Someone had apparently stopped by the previous afternoon and loaded the unattended house into a truck, thinking it was out front as a giveaway.
The boys' mother, Cari, seeing the boys' distress and unable to replace the pricey toy, contacted the News to put out a plea for its return. Shortly after the story's publication, her efforts paid off.
"A woman this morning knocked on my door and said a friend had told her about the story . . . and that she should talk to me," said Cari. "She had taken the house assuming it was free for the taking."
The toy would be returned later that day. There were apparently no hard feelings.
"I'm ecstatic," she said. "I can't wait to tell the boys."
