For 26 years the Rotary Lights Venture has at all times taken pleasure in the truth that there has by no means been any vandalism or theft in Riverside Park. That each one modified final weekend.
About 70 electrical pedestals have been moved to the park final Friday to start the method of lighting the park. On each Saturday and Sunday evenings vandals lower the cords on a lot of these pedestals.
Rotary Lights president Pat Stephens mentioned it was assumed they wished to take the cords with the hope that the copper content material could be value some sort of financial award.
“Alternative cords are $2 per foot so our loss might be near $10,000. We’ve got alerted all wire sellers in a large space of La Crosse to be looking out for anybody attempting to money cords in for achieve,” Stephens mentioned.
“We’re working carefully with the La Crosse Police Division, have filed formal stories, and are within the technique of checking any and all safety cameras that service the park space. Our safety group that often displays the park beginning in November, have been known as in early in hopes of eliminating any additional injury. If we determine the perpetrators, we’ll prosecute to the total extent of the legislation.
Rotary Lights has the particular mission of “feeding the hungry.” We ask for the group’s assist in maintaining a tally of the park and to make word of any suspicious exercise. As a group, we will restore the pleasure that we are going to not have vandalism or stealing that in actuality takes away from the Rotary Lights mission,” Stephens mentioned.
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