Forest City Velodrome remains in the dark following copper wire theft
In a Facebook post, velodrome officials said that early Saturday, “a highly trained thief” carefully cut the copper wiring from a hydro pole at the back of the building. Volunteers noticed that the facility was out of power when they opened that morning for an upcoming session.“As a non-profit run by volunteers, it is disheartening to be knocked down financially and as a family group.”
“The Forrest City Velodrome is the training facility for people from not only London, but St. Thomas, Strathroy, and Kitchener-Waterloo area, so it’s quite a regional facility in that regard,” he said. “With track provincial championships and national championships coming up, fortunately, those events are far enough out that I don’t think this has really a big impact on those activities and those training plans. But it’s all still something to be considered.
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