The Ford Women's World Curling championship seems to be bringing out the best in local people.
When Bob Stevens, 70, accidentally left his debit card behind, someone took advantage and cleaned out his bank account and the money he was counting on to buy tickets to see the women play in the championship now taking place in the city. Team Canada skip Jennifer Jones is one of his favorites.
The avid curler is a resident of Cassellholme and had triple bypass open heart surgery last year, and wrote on his Facebook page, "to let people know how thankful I am to be alive."
The former Canada Post employee had hoped to see the curling teams in action live.
Here's where Daniel Dupuis stepped up.
After hearing of Steven's story, "It was time to do my good deed of the day," he told BayToday. "I had two tickets to this morning's draw 12 at the 2018 World Women's Curling Championships that I was given so it was the perfect opportunity to give back. I went to Cassellholme to bring a smile to Mr. Stevens face and gave him my two tickets so he can go do something that he has always wanted to do, and that's to go watch the women of the world curl."
Dupuis says Stevens was in shock and very grateful for the chance to see this morning's matches.
"As I was at Cassellholme with him trying to find him a ride, a worker walked over to us with a white envelope containing some money that a little girl had sent to him, it was her birthday money. Needless to say that his smile got bigger and he was fighting back tears. After an hour of trying to find him a ride, his daughter arrived to take him to Memorial Gardens to enjoy the sport that he loves.
"It was my pleasure to make someone else happy," added Dupuis. "The tickets were given to me from a friend, seeing that I had already been to the curling twice it was just fitting for Mr. Stevens to go in my place."
