Stawnichy’s offers 100 sausage rings in exchange for Mundare thieves’ capture - BERITAJA

There was a dependable watercourse of customers at Stawnichy’s Mundare Sausage connected Friday, coming successful and retired of a brand-new doorway that replaced 1 destroyed successful an after-hours break-in.

It’s been a long, engaged 2 days aft 2 thieves busted into the shop connected Wednesday night. Stawnichy’s says successful their about 70 years of business, they’ve ne'er had a break-in until this week.

“I deliberation we’ve been benignant of fortunate that it hadn’t happened for truthful galore decades,” said Kyler Zeleny, adjunct wide head and a personnel of the Stawnichy family that runs the beloved mini business successful eastbound Alberta.

Stawnichy’s has operated successful Mundare, Alta., about an hr eastbound of Edmonton, for decades and is celebrated for its Ukrainian ail sausage, aliases kielbasa.

So overmuch so, the municipality populated by descendants of Ukrainian homesteaders is besides location to the world’s largest sausage statue — a 42-foot-tall replica of the millions of links the institution produced and sold since the 1960s.

“Nobody could apical their kielbasa,” said long-time customer Sharon Ewasiw, who drove complete from Lamont connected Friday greeting to banal up connected sausage. “Nobody — the champion successful Alberta.”

Ewasiw and respective different ladies were stocking up for this weekend’s for Orthodox Easter celebrations.

“Pepperoni, kielbasa, ham, paprika, bacon,” said June Tichkowsky, listing disconnected her market list.

“Garlic — can’t hide the ail — and radishes and onions and cheese,” Ewasiw piped in.

The ladies explained their bounty each goes into a handbasket they return to religion to beryllium blessed earlier this weekend’s dinner. It’s an yearly arena that, this year, came pinch a small much excitement than normal pursuing the shop being surgery into.

RCMP responded to a business siren connected Wednesday about 11:45 p.m., aft 2 thieves smashed successful the beforehand doorway model and collapsed in.

Security camera video shows them jumping complete the beforehand counter, grabbing the rate registry and yanking it free from its electrical cords earlier fleeing retired the surgery door.

“They did immoderate really speedy benignant of counter-top hopping. They did about 3 — looked very parkour-esque — and they grabbed our rate machine, and went retired the beforehand door,” Zeleny said.

However, the thieves possibly didn’t make disconnected pinch arsenic overmuch moolah arsenic they hoped.

“Like about businesses — and if there’s immoderate criminals listening — there’s usually nary rate successful registers,” Zeleny said, explaining location was conscionable a bunch of quarters and dimes successful the machine.

“So if you spot anyone aliases perceive anyone pinch about $80 worthy of alteration successful their pockets — that mightiness beryllium our culprits.”

However, the thieves did origin respective thousands dollars successful harm to the store.

“The smaller the business, the harder it is for them to benignant of sorb those costs,” Zeleny said.

Zeleny said he showed up early Thursday greeting pinch his dada to committee up the beforehand doorway and window.

“Those go very agelong nights for mini businesses and past trying to fig retired really to unfastened the adjacent day.

Thankfully, they had a spare doorway and helping hands to get things backmost into moving bid erstwhile the sun came up.

The stolen rate registry was recovered surgery and ditched successful a snowbank, Zeleny said, truthful a caller rate registry was acquired. A solid institution from Vegreville sewage the shot rolling connected replacing smashed glass.

“Within 1 day, it didn’t really look for illustration we had been surgery into.”

Zeleny fears if thieves collapsed successful once, they mightiness do it again — either astatine Stawnichy’s aliases different mini business.

“We don’t want them successful our communities, we don’t want them coming back. And we want to spot justness for places for illustration this,” he said.

“I dream they recognize the magnitude of harm they’ve done to only get $80 worthy of coinage, possibly not to do it again — but we’re benignant of hoping that we could fig retired who the culprits were.”

To that end, the family business — pinch grandma’s support — is now offering 100 rings of their Mundare sausage for the personification who helps find the suspects.

“We offered, pinch Baba Jane’s blessing, we could springiness 100 free rings of sausage to anyone who could thief america find who these individuals are,” Zeleny said.

RCMP said the recovered rate registry will beryllium analysed by Alberta RCMP forensic recognition services.

Police are searching for 2 suspects.

Suspect 1 was wearing:
• Red hoodie pinch a achromatic sweater pinch achromatic stripes down the arms and achromatic penning connected the back
• Black way pants pinch stipes
• Red gloves
• Red mask
• Black shot hat
• Red moving shoes
• Believed to beryllium betwixt 5 feet, 8 inches and six feet, 2 inches tall, pinch an mean build

Suspect 2 was wearing:
• Grey/ Dark greenish jacket
• Grey pants
• Grey moving shoes pinch a achromatic bottom
• Grey gloves
• Black disguise pinch a achromatic pattern
• Believed to beryllium betwixt 5 feet, six inches and six feet tall, pinch an mean build

Vegreville RCMP is besides requesting the public’s assistance for dash camera footage, aliases surveillance footage successful the areas betwixt 51  and 53 avenues on 50 Street successful Mundare, from betwixt April 8  astatine 11:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. connected April 9.

Anyone pinch footage that appears helpful, aliases has cognize who whitethorn person committed the crime, is asked to interaction Vegreville RCMP astatine 780-631-2750.

Anonymous tips could besides beryllium submitted to Crime Stoppers astatine 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) aliases online.