A Nanaimo man knows what it means for family mementos to be lost and found.

So he香蕉视频直播檚 determined to do whatever he can to return 10 photo albums to a family he doesn香蕉视频直播檛 know.

Suiker had while moving back to British Columbia from the Prairies in 2015. While the truck was recovered and Abbotsford Police solved the case, Suiker didn香蕉视频直播檛 get back everything that was taken.

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Suiker spied the 10 photo albums at an estate sale in Nanaimo in 2018. He was fascinated at the old pictures taken in Latvia at least as far back as the 1930s, and when advised the albums were to be thrown away, he didn香蕉视频直播檛 think twice.

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The albums seem to have belonged to Juris Bergins, who died in 2018, and therefore to his daughters Kristine Bergins and Monika Young, but Suiker hasn香蕉视频直播檛 had success locating family members. He香蕉视频直播檚 made inquiries at a funeral home, followed other leads that fizzled, and even contacted a newspaper in Latvia. Every few months he looks at the albums, he said, and 香蕉视频直播淸looks] into it a little bit more, and unfortunately every avenue that I took led to a dead end.香蕉视频直播�

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Suiker can be contacted at bms@sasktel.net.

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