Does this jewelry have a familiar ring to it?

Published 12:01 am Friday, May 6, 2011

This could be a precious Mother’s Day gift.

Did you lose your mother’s ring, in the early 1990s, in Everett? It has five stones, two with the same monthly color, three individual colors.

The owner will be able to name the colors on the ring that signify the months her children were born.

Jerry Penix on Camano Island found the ring in a shopping cart at Safeway on Broadway in Everett sometime in the 1990s. He lived near there. He stuck it in his pocket and didn’t think to turn it in to the lost and found.

He was going to advertise for its owner in the newspaper, but he never got around to it, Penix says. You see, the 1990s started a downward spiral for Penix.

His wife had brain cancer in the 1990s. We can’t fault him for not knowing exact dates, because Penix had brain surgery in 2006.

His wife’s diagnosis could have been around the same time as the ring was found, he says.

Jerry Penix caused a collision in Stanwood, he said, near Twin City Foods, in 2006. He didn’t think he was injured, he says, but woke up at Harborview Hospital in Seattle. He says they found a brain infection. The accident saved his life, he says.

After surgery, he lost the businesses he owned on Camano. He says it’s hard to explain how you change after brain surgery.

“So much has happened,” he says. “So much has happened in my life.”

It would please him greatly to return the ring to its rightful owner. He says it must have sentimental value to someone.

Let me know if you are the owner, or know the owner, by calling 425-339-3451 or emailing oharran@heraldnet.com.

Maybe we can connect the dots, as Penix says.

That’s something he isn’t always able to do these days.

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Sharon Ryan says it’s White Cane Days today and Saturday at several stores around Oak Harbor.

Members of the Oak Harbor Lions Club will be out and about from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. promoting the Northwest Lions Foundation for Sight and Hearing.

All donations are used to support a variety of programs including Lions Patient Care and Sightlife programs that help provide medical care, equipment, and other assistance to those with limited sight.

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Listen to American Indian storytelling at 7 p.m. May 13 at Fort Ebey State Park, 400 Hill Valley Drive in Coupeville.

Louis LaBombard, professor of anthropology at Skagit Valley College, is the storyteller.

It’s free.

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The “Easy G Jazz Club” doors open at 6:30 tonight and Saturday for a “Swing Into Spring” dessert dance at Arlington High School, 18821 Crown Ridge Blvd. in Arlington.

Tickets are $12 at the door.

Planned are music, dancing, dessert and beverages served by the jazz students.

Performers include On Hold, an audition-only jazz band that meets every weekday morning at 7 a.m. before school. Jazz II is a volunteer group that rehearses for two hours every Tuesday night.

“Swing Into Spring” is the biggest fundraiser for the Arlington High Jazz Bands.

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Vitalire Apparel, a clothing company in Arlington, is donating 100 percent of its profits through Saturday to the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. Vitalire is sponsoring the June 4 and 5 event in Arlington.

Vitalire offers a Relay T-shirt for $10 at www.vitalireapparel.com. Profits from shirt sales go to Relay for Life.

Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451; oharran@heraldnet.com.