Vandals And Thieves Delay Opening Of Beloved Holiday Folsom Ice Rink

FOLSOM (CBS13) — A beloved vacation crystal skating rink was near successful limbo aft vandals destroyed thousands of dollars worthy of products.

The Folsom Historic District Ice Rink was expected to unfastened past week but present workers are scrambling to implicit repairs. Thieves adjacent stole large equipment.

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“We are moving each implicit the place. We are going to San Francisco, we are going down to LA,” said manager Gabe Bryan.

Gabe says workers person been tracking down products for replacement and repairs pursuing days of vandalism and theft.

Surveillance video shows radical breaking into the rink and damaging respective tubes containing a liquid that keeps the crystal cold.

He says from 1 nighttime alone, determination were implicit 400 antithetic leaks.

“Those cracks that hap and the glycol mislaid from that is, to us, thousands of dollars for those 20 seconds and close present it’s highly hard to regenerate it,” helium explained.

It’s besides highly hard to find owed to proviso concatenation issues galore industries are dealing with.

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“We are adjacent considering going retired of authorities to find worldly due to the fact that it’s either cheaper to conscionable thrust ourselves, there’s shipping expenses and a batch of places are back-ordered,” said General Manager Megan Jackson.

The terms of definite products has besides quadrupled.

“Barrels of glycol, which past twelvemonth outgo $2,200 to purchase, are present upwards to $8,000, adjacent $10,000 if you see shipping,” Gabe said.

But adjacent shipping isn’t an enactment erstwhile immoderate companies are quoting 2 to 3 months for deliveries.

It’s been frustrating for the family-run concern that’s present moving non-stop to hole the harm and find what they request to support the contented of crystal skating successful historical downtown Folsom alive.

“My grandkids travel each the time,” 1 pistillate said.

“It’s precise bittersweet that affects truthful galore radical successful a antagonistic mode similar that,” different pistillate said.

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The anticipation is to person repairs done and the rink unfastened by Thanksgiving break, but an authoritative day is inactive pending.

Renée Santos