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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa is warning donors to make sure they know where their used goods are going after some, but not all, of the group’s stolen collection bins were recovered by police.
Executive director Susan Ingram said that police have recovered one of her agency’s six stolen bins and several belonging to the charity’s Gatineau branch, and have laid charges against a man.
She visited a rural south Ottawa storage facility in mid-January to identify one of the agency’s previously-purple bins in a trailer and says it looked as if the bins were being repainted on site. She fears that the five other bins, which vanished late on Dec. 6 or early Dec. 7, could potentially have been repainted and returned to the street.
“People need to pay attention to who they’re donating to,” Ingram said. “Don’t go by the colour of the bin, look at the name of the charity. If it’s not the charity you want to donate to just call the charity that you want to donate to – they’ll come and get it or you can drop it off to their offices.”
The theft of the $1,200 bins, which weigh about 500 kilograms each, cost the charity thousands of dollars a month’s worth of donations of used goods. Most are sold to a wholesaler and the proceeds support BBBSO’s programs serving more than 1,000 Ottawa youth. Some clothing items are put aside for families in need.
The charities are now struggling with the question of how to remove the recovered bins that are stuck to the ground with ice and snow.
But Ingram saw a bright spot to what’s been a dispiriting episode.
“Police found the bins from a tip,” she said. “The public was paying attention to the news and they were really upset that this happened to us. At least I have one that’s found and it’s because the public did pay attention.
“That’s the great thing. The public has been terrific in supporting us.”
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Executive director Susan Ingram said that police have recovered one of her agency’s six stolen bins and several belonging to the charity’s Gatineau branch, and have laid charges against a man.
She visited a rural south Ottawa storage facility in mid-January to identify one of the agency’s previously-purple bins in a trailer and says it looked as if the bins were being repainted on site. She fears that the five other bins, which vanished late on Dec. 6 or early Dec. 7, could potentially have been repainted and returned to the street.
“People need to pay attention to who they’re donating to,” Ingram said. “Don’t go by the colour of the bin, look at the name of the charity. If it’s not the charity you want to donate to just call the charity that you want to donate to – they’ll come and get it or you can drop it off to their offices.”
The theft of the $1,200 bins, which weigh about 500 kilograms each, cost the charity thousands of dollars a month’s worth of donations of used goods. Most are sold to a wholesaler and the proceeds support BBBSO’s programs serving more than 1,000 Ottawa youth. Some clothing items are put aside for families in need.
The charities are now struggling with the question of how to remove the recovered bins that are stuck to the ground with ice and snow.
But Ingram saw a bright spot to what’s been a dispiriting episode.
“Police found the bins from a tip,” she said. “The public was paying attention to the news and they were really upset that this happened to us. At least I have one that’s found and it’s because the public did pay attention.
“That’s the great thing. The public has been terrific in supporting us.”
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