An instructor and his students are making do Thursday, Oct. 10 after some tools and equipment were stolen overnight from a log home building school in Williams Lake.
Beat Schwaller, who owns UnBEATable Log Construction School, has been instructing six students from Switzerland, one from Williams Lake and two from Alberta, said seven Husqvarna chainsaws, two Diwalt cordless drills, 12 five-amp batteries and one 60-amp battery, one tool belt and two hard hats were stolen.
"They event stole two pairs of work boots which belong to my students," he told Black Press Thursday.
In a Facebook post he described the boots as one size 11 Keen work boot and one La Sportivo size 46, European.
"The net worth of everything was about $30,000 and we still on not sure of everything that was stolen," he said.
Schwaller said Peter Arnold, a log home builder who shares the site with him, had loaned him some equipment for the students to use as they are on the second-to-last day of the school.
"It is very discouraging," he said. "For a small business in Williams Lake to have this kind of loss is huge."
He said whoever stole the items broke the lock on a tool shed to access the equipment.
"It's too bad my students had to experience this."
Anyone with information can call Schwaller at 250-305-6304.
The Williams Lake RCMP have been notified, he confirmed.
