He really is a hero.
From Vancouver Sun:
Vancouver-raised movie star Ryan Reynolds is offering a cash reward to whoever reunites Mara Soriano with her stolen teddy bear that contains a recording of her late mother’s voice.
Soriano, a storyboard artist who works on animated TV series, has been canvassing Vancouver’s West End, putting up posters and checking dumpsters since Friday when her backpack — containing the bear, some documents and an iPad — was stolen from behind the Shoppers Drug Mart on See-em-ia Lane, between Pendrell and Davie streets.
The Build-A-Bear, which are made to the specifications of individual customers at the Build-A-Bear Workshop in St. Louis, Miss., carries a recording of a loving final message from Marilyn Soriano, Mara’s mother, who died of cancer on June 29, 2019 at the age of 53.
“Don’t care about the electronics, just desperately want my mom’s bear back,” Soriano wrote a missing posters that displayed a photo of the bespectacled plush bear wearing a white dress with red polka dots.
Reynolds, responding on Twitter to media reports of the theft, promised $5,000 to whoever returns the bear to Soriano.
“Zero questions asked. I think we all need this bear to come home,” the actor tweeted Saturday night.
Soriano told the CBC that her Herschel backpack was stolen during a moment of distraction while she and her boyfriend were in the process of moving into a new apartment.
“I have filed a police report, they have contacted my building and got the video footage and are circulating the suspect’s images,” she said on Twitter.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of the bear can email Soriano at findmamabearyvr@gmail.com or call Vancouver police at 604-717-3321.
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