The Kinsmen Club says they have lost all their fundraising equipment including a large pink candy floss trailer.
Gary De Roche from the Kinsmen Club says the pink trailer was parked at 370 Millen Road, a gated facility with other construction equipment and trailers last August, by the end of the Winona Peach Festival.
“It can’t have gone far, we don’t believe because it has no lights on it, no brakes, no license plate, but it’s big and pink it’s 30 feet long and it should stick out like a sore thumb,” said De Roche.
De Roche says he visited this facility Saturday to prepare for this year’s festival but it was nowhere in sight.
“Our product is in it, our candy floss machines, snow cone machines, our signage all of the stuffed animals that we use for the birthday game for the little kids to play the game and we don’t know what we’re going to do for this year’s peach festival because it’s a lot of money.”
De Roche estimates the trailer and its contents add up to more than $35,000.
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The Kinsmen Cub donates around $25,000 every year to local organizations.
Linda Shuker, the Director of the Winona Peach Festival, says this incident will hurt the festival.
“I felt very disappointed, and sad. It’s very disgusting that somebody would steal a trailer and all their equipment that they put hours into raising money for the community,” says Shuker.
This is an ongoing investigation, anyone with information is asked to call the police.
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