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So, true to their urban lifestyles and love for downtown Cincinnati, they suggested their guests give to what they think is a great cause: the streetcar project.

“We thought that we should do something that was kind of near and dear to our hearts,” said Myers, 29, a civil litigation lawyer. “What better place than when you have a captive audience of 260 wedding guests?”

Since the couple made public their beneficiary choice on their wedding Web site, the reaction has been positive. It’s what many of their friends and family members expected from Myers and Heckman, 30, an industrial designer who helped develop the latest Swiffer design.

“Most people are like, ‘Oh, that’s so appropriate for you guys,’´Myers said.

Here’s why: they met in January 2008 at Park + Vine, the Over-the-Rhine store that sells environmentally friendly merchandise, where Heckman took her in September to propose; they’re marrying at the Contemporary Arts Center, which is next to their apartment over an Indian restaurant, where they’re having their rehearsal dinner; all their guests are staying within walking distance of the museum. They’re a very downtown-focused couple.

They’re hoping their emphasis of the streetcar project will give their guests a connection to Cincinnati that will make them want to come back when the streetcar is in operation. If that never happens, their tax-deductible donations will be returned.

Councilman Chris Bortz, one of the biggest streetcar proponents, had not heard about the couple’s idea.

“Aw, that’s awesome,” he said. “That is pretty cool.”

Council recently set up an account so officials could start soliciting private donations. How much help the wedding guests will be toward the $185 million price tag isn’t yet known. Myers and Heckman, who said they have several hundred already, plan to add it up before they leave on their honeymoon Monday.

The odds were stacked against Ethan Currill from birth.

Arriving at 24 weeks, he weighed just 1lb 14oz, with a brain haemorrhage and an open duct in his heart.

He was so tiny that his father Edward was able to slip his wedding band over his arm.

But Ethan never gave up fighting - and fourth months later he

His mother Catherine, 21, a post office assistant manager, said: ‘It is amazing to finally have Ethan home after all he has been through.

A woman whose husband has been missing for almost six weeks says that celebrating their 24th wedding anniversary this week was “heartbreaking”.

Stephen Adams, 50, from Lower Hutt, disappeared on January 31.

Yesterday his wife Julie told The Dominion Post he last contacted her to say he was going to visit his mother’s grave in Wairarapa. He said he would “be home in a couple of hours”.

Since then Mr Adams has not used his cellphone, bankcard or fuel card and there have been no sightings of him, although two people reported seeing his black Falcon car on the Rimutaka Hill between 9.30 and 10.30 on the morning he went missing.

Mrs Adams, whose 24th wedding anniversary was on Monday, said she kept hoping he was going to walk up the driveway.

“But I realise the alternative is now a reality.”

She and her children, aged 22, 20 and 16, were “at a loss” as to where to look next.

Detective Sergeant Steve Harwood of Lower Hutt said a search and rescue team and Westpac helicopter would search an area today near Akatarawa forest where they believe an accident could have happened.

Mr Adams is about 1.9 metres (6ft 3in) tall, with a small moustache. He was last seen in shorts, T-shirt and jandals. He was driving a black Ford Falcon XR6, registration CSA631.

But the student who found the ring wants to know if the jewelry was put in his donation can by accident or on purpose.

The ring, a solid-gold men’s band, appeared in a collection bucket on Valentine’s Day. Six students were canning — a Penn State initiative in which students go to their hometowns to raise money for the Four Diamonds Fund, which supports those affected by pediatric cancer at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Universitywide, the campaign has collected nearly $7.5 million this year, making it the biggest student-run philanthropic effort in the country, said Annemarie Mountz, a Penn State spokeswoman.

Cole Wurmstich, 18, of Bridgewater, wanted his fundraising effort to be successful, so he rounded up five of his Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity brothers to come to his hometown. He chose a high-traffic intersection — Union Avenue (Route 28) and the entrance to Bridgewater Promenade shopping center — to stake out on Valentine’s Day weekend.

Each time traffic stopped, the young men would walk between the vehicles. Many drivers rolled down their windows to contribute some change or bills to the students’ cans. After a lunch break, they started again at about 2 p.m. About two hours later, the cans started to get full, so the men returned to Wurmstich’s father’s car, which they had been using as a staging area, and emptied the cans, setting the cash donations aside.

Since the Penn State canning ventures often also catch errant Chuck E. Cheese game tokens, hair bands and other items mixed in with coins from the change bin of a vehicle, Wurmstich set aside a round, metal object that didn’t belong with the cash and went back to collecting donations.

“I didn’t think it was a ring. It seemed plain to me. I wouldn’t think someone would put their wedding ring in a can,” Wurmstich said.

It didn’t occur to him that perhaps someone had mistakenly dropped a wedding band in the can until his father, Gordon Wurmstich, wondered why there was a ring on the floor of his vehicle.

“I’m sure someone would like to get it back,” Gordon Wurmstich said of the ring.

Bridgewater police Det. Sgt. Gerald Nunery said police received no reports of a missing ring on Valentine’s Day. Nunery wondered, as the Wurmstiches did, whether the ring was intended as a generous donation to the cause.

Cole Wurmstich said the ring was placed — or misplaced — in the can of one of his fraternity brothers, Marc Rosen of Teaneck. Rosen was working the double left-turn of westbound Union Avenue (Route 28), heading into the shopping center.

Rosen said he barely remembered the ring was in his can, noting that the most important thing was the $1,700 raised for the cause.