Senior recovers stolen bike
Penticton senior Heidi Yeglic thanks Mike Baxter for finding her bike that was stolen while she was visiting a friend.
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Updated: July 01, 2009 4:12 PM
When Heidi Yeglic got the call that someone had found her stolen bike, she almost cried.
It’s exactly what the Penticton senior did while offering a few words of thanks to the man who spotted her bike that had been missing since a thief stole it from the doorsteps of her friend’s house last month.
“I was so happy,” she said choking back tears of joy. “I mean that is my bike, my life. He is so kind to have realized that was my bike and to go back and get it.”
Mike Baxter had seen the bike before. The employee of Freedom Bike shop had serviced it previously for Yeglic and she had stopped by the business in the days following the theft to ask them to keep their eyes open around town.
“I was visiting my mother and thought I saw the bike near a grassy area by a bus shelter but couldn’t be sure if it was the same bike,” said Baxter. “I returned the next day to visit and saw the same bike. I stopped and had a closer look and knew that was Heidi’s bike.”
Baxter wasn’t the only community support the 82-year-old received — after reading the story in the Penticton Western News about Yeglic’s stolen bike, Joanne Hess called the paper to offer help.
“I was reading the paper and I have this bike here that we originally bought for camping years ago but has hardly been used. I thought it would be ideal for her because it is a folding bike, which she had,” said Hess.
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