St. Regis Recreation Recovers Belt

In a surprising bit of luck, a Hiawatha belt made for the St. Regis Recreation Center and thought to be gone for good, was returned by a good Samaritan recently. The belt, part of a set of two, was made of stainless steel by Ian Seymour, and originally adorned the gazebo outside of the recreation center. The belts were there until one day the landscaper pointed out that they were missing, and that was over two years ago. The thief or thieves even left the bolts that fasten the belts to the gazebo behind.

Charity ‘Brad’ Lazore said, “It was crazy. You would think they would want the bolts to attach them to where they were going to put it, you know?”

A write up in the paper about the theft was done, and still nothing, no hits about the belts came at all – that is of course until two weeks before Christmas, when a community member from St. Regis was looking through a dump for scrap metal and found one of the belts. He was going to keep it until he found out that the belt was originally from the St. Regis Recreation Center and he promptly returned it.

The other belt is still considered lost and the staff at the recreation center would love to see it returned. If you have any idea where it may have found its way to, please let someone at the St. Regis Recreation Center know at 613-575-2700.