At least $5000 worth of hand and power tools have been stolen from the Break O’Day Woodcraft Guild’s centre at St Marys in the Fingal Valley.
Thieves broke into the important community asset last weekend and stole all the hand and power tools painstakingly collected by the Guild’s members over the past ten years. They have been left with nothing…
The Woodcraft Guild provides an important role in an isolated community such as St Marys. It is a place where retirees and newcomers to the district can socialise and become integrated into the community. It enables the learning of new skills and the rediscovering of old arts. Members provide a service repairing items for the elderly and helping those with problems.
Guild President, Reon Johns, is devastated. Many of the stolen tools were those owned by pensioners and retirees including his own and his partner’s who had donated tools used by her late father, a skilled cabinet maker and WW2 veteran. Fund raising efforts are already underway and an Open Day and Fair will be held on Saturday 5 April 2014.
