Pacific Grove charitable organization reports stolen trailer with equipment
PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (KION) A charitable organization in Pacific Grove has had its trailer filled with equipment used for fundraising events stolen.
The Kiwanis Club Pacific Grove Chapter fundraises for youth by making pancakes and collecting donations.
The club usually receives requests from other local organizations serving youth and typically organizes about 20 events every year.
The President of the Pacific Grove chapter, Robin Lewis said, "We offer it at no cost to them. Then they promote it and then they have folks come in and we serve pancakes, sausages, and all that good stuff."
When the club isn't fundraising, they store all their equipment including grills in a white trailer. They park the trailer in the parking lot of First Awakenings in Pacific Grove. When members arrived early Wednesday morning for their meeting, they realized the trailer was gone.
"We're just here to help the community and help kids. To have somebody take it, it's pretty devastating," said Lewis. "If you can actually see all the members' faces on Wednesday morning when we were here, we were just like, like, somebody punched us in the stomach."
The club has had the trailer for more than a decade. The Pacific Grove Police Department said officers today responded to the past tense report of a trailer theft that took place on Wednesday around 5 a.m.
In a statement to KION, the police department wrote in part, "The trailer is a 2011 WLCRF white box trailer with California License Plate 4LN6278 and is registered to Pacific Grove Kiwanis. The suspect is unknown at this time and the investigation is ongoing."
Despite the disappointment, they plan to continue fundraising. The Monterey Firefighters Association decided to lend their equipment to help them with their fundraising event this Saturday. The fundraising event is to help the Pacific Grove Recreation Department. The club will be at the Pacific Grove Community Center from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. selling breakfast for $5 a plate.
