Three sites in Tisdale were hit by vandals, causing major damage.
The Tisdale Motor Speedway was hit the worst, with the windows of the announcer building all smashed in, as well as the windows of the two tanker vehicles. Fire extinguishers were discharged.
At the Tisdale Riverside Golf Course, vandals took an axe used to chop firewood and broke into a shed, drove a tractor out of it, broke the liquid-filled tires of the tractor, and hit the axe against a bathroom under construction and a port-a-potty. They stole the axe and the tractor keys.
The Special Olympics Shed at the Fairgrounds Ball Diamonds was also broken into, but opportunities for vandalism were minimal compared to the other two sites. There was glass broken.
Tisdale RCMP believe the incidents took place between 8 p.m. May 18 and 6 a.m. May 19.
Marc Anderson, the maintenance superintendent at the golf course, was upset with the vandalism.
“We’re extremely frustrated with it. A lot of work has gone into this golf course the last few years and the golf course finally looks the way we’ve always wanted it to look and we have to deal with [junk] like this.”
The golf course has been the site of a few acts of vandalism this year, but this case is the worst.
The RCMP brought a forensics team to the site, looking for items like fingerprints. They believe due to the similarity of the incidences that they are related, but there’s no evidence to support that at this time.
The Tisdale RCMP are asking anyone with information to contact them or Crime Stoppers.
