Owl carving stolen from Kelowna, B.C. park

The wood-carved owl that utilized to defender Lombardy Park successful Kelowna, B.C., has taken formation arsenic it appears idiosyncratic has sawed disconnected the nationalist creation piece.

The carving was commissioned successful 2023 by the City of Kelowna to bring caller beingness to an aged oak stump. Kameron Garbe, an creator based successful Armstrong, B.C., completed the carving successful 1 time and says helium is shocked to perceive that portion of it was stolen.

“I was stunned and a small shocked,” Garbe said. “It’s hard to ideate idiosyncratic proudly displaying a stolen portion of creation successful their home.”

What is near of the sculpture is oak leaves and 2 acorns underneath wherever the caller chopped was made to the stump.

“It’s disheartening and the full assemblage truly responded truthful positively to that full carving and conscionable rejuvenating that histrion and giving it a 2nd life. It’s truly bittersweet for the assemblage that was enjoying it,” Garbe said.

Since chiselling the owl into the oak tree, Garbey has been tapped to crook bark into feathers connected different projects astir town, similar the heron that present guards Sarsons Beach, which the creator says would beryllium overmuch harder for a thief to marque disconnected with.

“It’s overmuch larger and not thing that idiosyncratic tin conscionable locomotion distant with,” Garbe said.

All anticipation isn’t mislaid for what’s near of the owl’s stoop. Garbey says helium could swoop successful and adhd different owl, with other information measures, if the City of Kelowna is unfastened to it.