By Clyde Noel

Town Crier Correspondent

Ginna Lazar has a big heart and a love for stuffed animals, and she is desperate to find the owner of a lost stuffed rabbit.

“I drive by the soccer field several times a day, and I saw this stuffed animal on the sidewalk and thought, somewhere in Los Altos a child is crying for their loved friend,” Lazar said. “After a couple of days someone had a heart and picked up the bunny and hung him on the fence that goes around the soccer field. There are so many families that use the soccer field, it’s where the owner could see him.”

Lazar couldn’t believe it was still there after three days, so she stopped her car and picked the rabbit off the fence and called the Town Crier.

The special lost rabbit is about 18 inches high and made of white terry cloth. It has been washed with love and is clean. It has a purple nose, black eyes and a purple rose over the right ear.

“I still have ‘Ellie,’ my elephant I grew up with,” Lazar said. “She is all worn out, but I still hold her occasionally. Ellie is so loved that one day she will turn real like in the child’s book ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ by Margery Williams Bianco.

“After I picked the stuffed animal off the fence, I took him home and discussed what we should do with the bunny, because some precious child would be looking for her friend,” Lazar said. “This bunny needs to find his home quickly. He needs more love before he can turn real.”

Lazar said her son Will had a giraffe named “Milo,” and when he got lost, she went through a dumpster in pouring rain and did everything to find Milo for her then 8-year-old son. “I think that’s what happened to Milo. He turned real and went back to Africa,” she said. “I just wish I had called the Town Crier when Milo was lost.”

For more information, call Lazar at Fine Homes & Estates - Seville Properties, 941-7040.