South Tahoe High ALLY Club keeps track of SnowGlobe lost and found items

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - One can only imagine the amount of lost and found items accumulated during three days of a music festival where thousands of people attend.

To help with that at the SnowGlobe Music Festival, the South Tahoe High School Ally Club was recruited to operate the Lost & Found booth at the event. In return, Chad Donnelly, the founder and CEO of SnowGlobe, gives the club a donation to help with the club's activities.

This is the second year Ally, the Gay-Straight Alliance Club at the school, has worked the event. Bridey Heidel, English Department Chair and advisor to the group, gets parents, staff and graduates together to be in the booth to take in found items, reunite things with their owners, and sort through the pile of things accumulated from wallets full of cash and telephones to gloves and parts of costumes.

"It's fun to see the kids get their stuff back," said Heidel. "People here are very honest and turn in found wallets with lots of money in them. It's good karma!"

The volunteers in the booth inventory each item, take a photo of it and post to the Crowdfind app as a way to reunite owners with their belongings.

Heidel said they get a lot of cold-weather gear and random accessories from the costumes worn at SnowGlobe, items like silver Mickey Mouse ears with pink fur. She will be volunteering again on January 1 as they package up the remaining found items.

"Everyone is so sweet, especially when they bring in the found items," said Heidel of the festival-goers.

She said Donnelly is a committed partner with Ally at STHS and the LBGTQ population.

Also in the booth are an array of phone chargers for attendees to use.