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A lot of keys.
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Finding the neighbourhood groups on social media cluttered with home rental listings and quasi-jokes about leaf blowers, Townley created a dedicated page on Facebook called .
There she and the community match up people with a ton of missing keys and mitts, plus the odd plushie.
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It also elicited the most heartfelt and copious responses. A back-and-forth of conversation and ideas also plays into the underlying reason Townley started the page.
A Canadian who grew up in war-torn Libya, sheB次元官网网址檚 a fan of creating positive community.
B次元官网网址淚 know what a terrible community looks like. Anything I can do to make us feel like a community, IB次元官网网址檒l do it,B次元官网网址� she said. B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 really rewarding. People can be quite reserved B次元官网网址� itB次元官网网址檚 just a huge icebreaker. That and the block watch.B次元官网网址�
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Shortly after moving to Oak Bay three years ago, she joined Block Watch as another way to build community and meet people. Now sheB次元官网网址檚 a leader for 60 homes in her neighbourhood. It also morphed into work with the Oak Bay Emergency Preparedness Program.
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She figures about one-third of the items listed on the Facebook page wind up returned. She recently successfully retrieved her own lost light-up dog collar.
And Townley has a potential plan for the leftovers.
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