It appears that nothing in Timmins is sacred.
Over the weekend, someone ripped the air conditioning unit out of the wall of the rectory beside St. Anthony’s Cathedral on Fifth Ave.
Parish priest Father John Lemire says the damages total into the thousands of dollars.
“They totally destroyed the unit, they stripped the little bit of copper that’s there and then just left everything else out in the open,” he notes. An HVAC technician says the copper is worth about ten dollars.
He says this isn’t the first time for vandalism and break-ins at the church and rectory. He calls it disheartening when you think of all the Catholic church does for the homeless and needy.
“This is money that is now going to be taken away from our support of the soup kitchens, the food banks and all those type of worthy causes.”
There’s much more detail and reaction from Father Lemire in the interview posted below.
