{"id":409531,"date":"2026-07-23T15:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409531\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:27:37","slug":"sentimental-walking-cane-returned-to-90-year-old-fresno-veteran-after-fox26-story-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409531\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentimental walking cane returned to 90-year-old Fresno veteran after FOX26 story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A heartfelt community effort has reunited a 90-year-old Fresno veteran and retired police lieutenant with a<a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/family-begs-for-return-of-sentimental-cane-left-by-90-year-old-veteran-at-clovis-costco-air-force-veterans-memorial-museum-downtown-fresno-honor-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> one-of-a-kind cane that was accidentally left behind while shopping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Pryce, a retired Fresno Police lieutenant and Air Force veteran, misplaced the handmade wooden cane at Costco in Clovis. <\/p>\n<p>After multiple trips back to the store, the cane was never turned in, prompting his daughter to post a plea on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The cane, handcrafted by a fellow retired officer, features Pryce&#8217;s Fresno Police badge, motor officer pin, and Honor Flight pin, making it priceless to the family.<\/p>\n<p>After FOX26 shared the story, an employee at Gibson Farm Market found the cane by a corn bin, recognized it, and contacted the Clovis Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The sentimental keepsake has now been returned to Pryce, who continues to serve the community as a docent at the Veterans Memorial Museum in downtown Fresno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A heartfelt community effort has reunited a 90-year-old Fresno veteran and retired police lieutenant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-409531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}