An Antigonish community member is taking the recovery of a stolen church bell into her own hands.
Kate MacEachern is offering a reward of over $1,200 to find the bell that was discovered missing on Friday afternoon from St. David’s United Church in Cape George.
She shared with our newsroom how the theft affects her and the community.
“It’s an awful feeling to know that we had potentially people creeping around at night stealing things. It’s depraved because it’s an attack really on our community’s history, everything, our identity. It’s not a good feeling,” expressed MacEachern.
She explained how the historical bell was a gift to the church from St. Ninian’s School.
“If you know who has it, if you know of the location, just do the right thing. This is much more than a bell. It’s part of our community,” she explained.
The RCMP say investigators believe someone used a grinder saw to cut the bell out from its base and loaded it onto a truck.
MacEachern also aided in the recovery of another stolen church bell in Antigonish a year ago by offering another reward.
Halifax Harbour Bridges is also currently looking to find out the origin of a Meneely bell that may have been on a church from the Halifax Explosion era.
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