By JOLENE OGLE
AFTER a devastating week in the news, a single post on a Facebook page seems to have revitalised faith in humanity for many locals.
Yaroomba mother-of-two Mishele Tolhurst posted on the Sunny Coast Community Board group’s Facebook page last Sunday sharing her story of how her son’s new school bag was returned after leaving it in a shop at Noosa Civic.
Mishele said the person who returned the school bag, which had gifts and a video game inside, did more than return objects, they restored her trust.
Mishele said recent reports in the local media asking if people on the Sunshine Coast were “more ignorant, rude, angry, miserable, arrogant people” than anyone else in Australia were disappointing and “not true”.
“People are honest as a whole,” she said. “My life is very positive. I try to see the good in people around us,” she said.
“This was a great lesson for my son.”
Since posting on the Facebook page last Sunday, Mishele’s story has received almost 2000 likes and hundreds of comments.
Facebook user Amanda Kelly wrote “human kindness is alive and well – great to see”, while Kate Graham wrote “Love a happy ending. There are still good people in this world! Thanks for sharing”.
Janine Harm said this was an example of “another good story about the wonderful, honest people on the coast” and Vickie Barrett-Waite thanked Michele for sharing her story and said it was great “we live in such a good honest place”.
