Just days after commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Dieppe Raid, someone tried to break into the Kingsville Historical Park Museum.
Museum Curator Kevin Fox calls it a real shame that people don't see value in the museum.
Sometime around 3am on August 21, someone smashed a window and tried to gain access into an outbuilding of the museum. The outbuilding is used as a workshop and storage area and there are not any artifacts there.
Fox says someone had a lot of time to do the damage.
"Smashed a window, they used a fence post in order to break off a bracing bar that was holding the security bars and twist some of the security bars to gain access but it seems like they were interrupted because no access was ever gained," says Fox.
He says the break-in didn't happen at the actual museum building.
"The vault we have here is reinforced steel walls, it has a separate alarm system for the weapons, second set of security doors, reinforced pins to keep them in place all sorts of added components that lend a whole level of security," says Fox.
It's an unnerving situation for Fox.
"It is a real shame that people don't see the value that is put into these things, minor damage of that sort is insignificant to the bottom line it is still very damaging to the morale of people who are here, especially ones with long memories," says Fox.
OPP are investigating.