A Carbon County Commissioner is using his own experiences as a father, as well as social media to try to get a child’s shoe back to its owner.

Over the weekend, Commissioner Chris Lukasevich posted an image of Cinderella’s “slipper,” a KomforMe casual girl’s left foot sneaker, size 6, that was found in the upper county parking lot behind the administration building on Oct. 26.

“It truly just seemed like the right thing to do,” Lukasevich said. “We as kids ourselves or as parents with our own children experienced the loss of something that for some crazy reason created a deep emotional attachment. I imagined that attachment to some young girl not unlike my own children at sometime in their life.”

After a few days of seeing the shoe, a pink polka dot slipper type sneaker, he thought he would try to find its owner.

“Every time I passed it, I was imagining how it came to be there,” Lukasevich said, using the scenario of a parent carrying a young girl back to the car after a full day of sightseeing around Jim Thorpe and not noticing the shoe fell off as they buckled her into the vehicle.

After returning home, the child discovers she cannot find her shoe and is heartbroken.

“Imagine trying to console your own daughter,” he said. “So why not make a kind gesture, leveraging our social media platform (Facebook), and lighten the content a bit ... and at the end of the day, we just make some li’l girl smile.”

The commissioners currently have the shoe in the office and its owner can call 570-325-3611 to claim it.