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Can you help this couple find their lost Christmas presents?

Cart may have been left on a Sudbury Transit bus
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A Saturday morning Christmas shopping outing has turned into a hectic few days for a Sudbury couple after a cart full of gifts went missing on Dec. 16. (File)

A Saturday morning Christmas shopping outing has turned into a hectic few days for a Sudbury couple after a cart full of gifts went missing on Dec. 16.

Lise Shisko left her home early Saturday morning to run some errands, including doing some Christmas shopping for her boyfriend, Doug Austin. Lise took a bus from her home on Bruce Avenue to New Sudbury where she did most of her shopping.

With her cart full of gifts in tow, Lise took another transit bus to the downtown terminal to pick up a prescription from Rexall on Cedar Street, and that's where she can last recall having the cart with her.

"She knows she had it with her when she got on the bus from New Sudbury to go downtown," said Austin. "She's not sure if she left it on the bus or while waiting at the downtown terminal to come home, or if it was left at the terminal before she got on the bus."

The grocery cart had Christmas gifts, food and Lise's prescription in it, with the contents totalling around $250.

The couple reached out to Sudbury Transit, as well as Rexall, but neither had seen the cart, which Doug describes as two-wheeled and brown plaid in colour. 

"Lise went back downtown to look for it (and) we've phoned Sudbury Transit twice, but it hasn't turned up," said Austin. "We've put up some bulletins in our neighbourhood in hopes that someone has seen it and will return it."

There is a possibility that the cart was left on one of the city's buses, but Doug says that they won't know until Tuesday if that's the case.

"They (transit) told us that it would be Tuesday that they would know because the bus would have went to the garage and maybe someone grabbed it," said Austin, who is distraught over the whole situation.

"That was pretty much her whole Christmas budget, she's not going to be able to buy more gifts now."

If anyone has seen a brown plaid grocery cart, they can contact Doug Austin at [email protected].


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