It is a difficult year already for the Island BMX Club due to the pandemic restrictions but matters have not been helped by severe vandalism at the Mount Isa venue.
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The venue has been thrashed and Island BMX Club's Alisha Kidner is in despair anything will be done about it despite it being a model club and an important asset to the community.
"The club has not opened this year, has had no memberships paid, but has paid affiliations to national, state and Regional groups, plus insurance, land tax, electricity, bank fees, waste collection and Council rates," Ms Kidner said.
"Yet our Clubhouse has been broken into, trashed and vandalised with childlike, phallic images."
Ms Kidner said the vehicle used to roll their track to make it smooth has had every glass panel smashed and the windscreen seal removed.
"And the track is not even rideable because it is destroyed by the flooding of the Leichhardt River every year," she said.
"The Police have been but likely kids and nothing will happen."
Police are investigating the matter.
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Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
