STEAMBOAT — Someone stole baby Jesus, Joseph and a lamb last week from the downtown Nativity scene of Holy Name Catholic Church.
Father Ernest Bayer said the figures were screwed into a sheet of plywood. He said he noticed them missing Saturday, but a parishioner told him they might have been missing all of the previous week.
Bob Dapper, a member of the Knights of Columbus group with the church, said he set up the Nativity this year in increments leading up to Christmas Day, adding the figures of Jesus, Joseph and Mary on Christmas Eve.
After the theft, Mary and a lamb remained.
The figures, slightly smaller than life size, were a couple hundred dollars each, Bayer estimated, purchased mostly with private donations.
To report any information about the missing Nativity pieces, call Crime Stoppers at 970-870-6226.
Read the rest of this report, including another theft at the church. at .
