Gina Howse made the journey from Calgary to Edmonton to spend the vacations together with her three youngsters, however a cease outdoors Rogers Place this week turned her trip on its head.
“I parked in the identical spot right here, walked in, did not even get again to my truck 35 minutes later, I observed one thing was totally different,” Howse stated.
She stated somebody broke into her truck and stole a number of presents that have been inside.
Amongst them have been three duplicate rodeo buckles she made to imitate the championship buckle received in 1960 by her father, Joe Howse, who died in 2016.
“It is horrible. I have never been in a position to sleep, it took me some time to have the ability to choose up a telephone and name the youngsters and inform them that is what occurred,” Howse stated.
And this is not the primary time the household has had a rodeo buckle taken.
In 2018, the unique was stolen from her sister’s truck in Calgary.
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Calgary girl devastated by theft of her father’s rodeo belt buckle: ‘It means the world to us’
That buckle was returned after World Information coated the household’s determined search.
Howse stated the duplicate buckles value a number of thousand {dollars} and it was not straightforward to seek out somebody to make them.
“It is not the sum of money – it is the historical past, it is the recollections and you have taken one thing away from me and my youngsters that we’ll at all times keep in mind as a tragic day,” Howse stated.
Howse stated the truck doorways have been locked and she or he is working with police to hopefully get them again.
“My father’s buckle appears to be some type of magnet for thieves or one thing, for one thing like that to occur once more and to repeat itself, I simply cannot perceive,” Howse stated.
She hopes the story of stolen buckles can have a contented ending once more.
“Please give me again my buckles so I can provide them to my youngsters,” Howse stated.
Picture of stolen rodeo buckle.
Gina Howse/World Information
When you acknowledge the buckles or know the place they is perhaps, contact the police.
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