The Joliet Park Foundation and its agency have happened upon a heart-warming and viral story related to a stuffed animal that was found in the park.

"The song, “The Place Where the Lost Things Go”, in the 2018 file, “Mary Poppins Returns”, states that no object is truly lost forever—”just out of place.”

Such is the case with Odie, a stuffed dog who was left behind at Juliet’s Pilcher Park Nature Center for the past week. According to Sue Gulas, president of the Juliet Park Board of Commissioners, a maintenance worker found her and brought Odie to the front desk."

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