Alberta family searching for stolen championship rodeo buckle… again | 24CA News

Gina Howse made the journey from Calgary to Edmonton to spend the vacations along with her three kids, however a cease outdoors of Rogers Place this week turned her vacation the wrong way up.

“I parked in this very same spot here, walked in, not even 35 minutes later came back to my truck, I noticed something was different,” Howse mentioned.

She mentioned somebody broke into her truck and stole a number of items that have been inside.

Among them have been three duplicate rodeo buckles she had made to imitate the championship buckle received in 1960 by her father, Joe Howse, who handed away in 2016.

“It’s horrible. I haven’t been able to sleep, it took me a bit to be able to pick up a phone and call the kids and tell them this is what happened,” Howse mentioned.

And this isn’t the primary time the household has had a rodeo buckle taken.

Back in 2018, the unique was stolen out of her sister’s truck in Calgary.

That buckle was returned after Global News lined the household’s determined search.

Howse mentioned the duplicate buckles value a number of thousand {dollars} and discovering somebody to make them was not straightforward.

“It’s not the amount of money — it’s the history, it’s the memories and you took something away from me and my children that we’re always going to remember as a sad day,” Howse mentioned.

Howse mentioned the truck doorways have been locked and she or he is working with police to hopefully get them again.

‘My dad’s buckle appears to be some form of magnet for thieves or one thing, for one thing prefer to this to occur once more and to repeat itself, I simply can’t perceive,” Howse mentioned.

She’s hoping the story of stolen buckles will as soon as once more have a contented ending.

“Please give me my buckles back so I can give them to my kids,” Howse mentioned.

If you acknowledge the buckles or know the place they could be, contact police.

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