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Mister right got address wrong
By BRYAN MEADOWS
Thursday, July 22, 2010

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Where is Jenny Turner, and does she want to marry Robbie in Wisconsin?
Those questions are being posed by Thunder Bay resident Janice McCoy after receiving an “odd” U.S. postcard Monday complete with a marriage proposal to a Jenny Turner from concert-goer Robbie in Milwaukee.
“It‘s a bit strange,” McCoy said Wednesday. “It‘s our address but the name (on the postcard) is Jenny Turner‘s.”
“I don‘t know if it‘s a hoax or not,” she said, noting that she doesn‘t know any Jenny Turner, nor is she aware of any Turners living on Mountain Road where her family resides.
The postcard features a man holding the reigns of horse drawn wagon with brewer kegs on it. Welcome to Miller Valley is printed on the front.
The marriage proposal is nicely printed but a bit off grammatically.
McCoy said the postcard states: “Hi Jenny, It‘s awesome being here with you in Miller Valley. We‘re going to see an Eric Clapton concert. Hey I was thinking – do you want to marry me? I love you, Robbie (no last name).”
The postcard was mailed June 30 from Milwaukee.
McCoy said she wonders about the sentence tense in the letter – why Robbie would be sending a postcard to Turner if she‘s with him; or whether it was just wishful thinking on Robbie‘s part.
As for proposing marriage in a postcard, McCoy said, she thinks that‘s “very strange.”
It‘s not very personable, “everybody can read it,” she said, shrugging the postcard proposal off by saying that “all kinds of strange things happen in this world.”
Two big questions remain though: Is there a Jenny Turner in Thunder Bay, and will she accept the marriage proposal from Robbie?
Right now it‘s a postcard mystery that spans international borders, involving a man, a marriage proposal and apparently the wrong address for a Jenny Turner from Canada.
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