A Facebook post just solved a decades-old Northern Rivers Logie mystery

A LOST Logie missing for decades has resurfaced in the Northern Rivers after a chance discovery in a storage box and a single Facebook post.

The original TV Week Logie, awarded to veteran television journalist Bob Sanders, was found by Karen Hall, who according to her Facebook profile lives in Cessnock, NSW, while sorting through belongings left behind at an industrial property purchased around the year 2000.

Hall took to Facebook on February 13 saying she had discovered the Logie years earlier but was unable to locate the family at the time.

“In the year 2000 my husband and I bought an industrial property that had some belongings stored in it,” she wrote. “In a box we found a TV Week Logie belonging to Bob Sanders.”

 

 

Hall said she tried to research Sanders at the time without success and eventually put the award back into storage, where it was forgotten until recently.

“I would like to let the family know that I have the original and would like to send it back to them,” she wrote. “Please share this post so that I can return it to where it belongs.”

What had remained a mystery for decades was resolved within hours.

The post was shared through local community pages and reposted to the Kingscliff Happenings Facebook page by Susie Hillian, who alerted Jane Sanders and helped connect the two directly.

Jane Sanders, Bob Sanders’ daughter, responded publicly on Monday, February 16.

“Hi, it’s Jane Sanders … I am so grateful,” she wrote. “Thank you. Can I contact you?”

Responding to comments urging caution, Sanders later reassured readers the connection was genuine.

“She’s found me,” she wrote. “I will give her proof. Dad’s gone now and this has been a mystery for years — I am thrilled.”

The exchange brought an unexpected resolution to a long-running family mystery.

Sanders, who later retired to the Tweed, lost the original Logie many years ago and believed it was gone for good.

In 2008, after the award could not be located, TV Week presented him with a replacement Logie.

Sanders won the Logie in 1966 for outstanding reporting on the ABC program People.

The rediscovered trophy appears to be the original award.

Hall said she had always hoped the Logie would one day be returned to the Sanders family.

Arrangements are now being made privately for the award to be handed back.

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