{"id":446751,"date":"2026-05-26T22:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446751\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:27:08","slug":"appleton-man-pays-fine-for-damaging-avenue-of-ice-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446751\/","title":{"rendered":"Appleton man pays fine for damaging Avenue of Ice sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"

APPLETON (WLUK) — The man who damaged a downtown Appleton ice sculpture earlier this year <\/a>pleaded no contest and paid a $389.50 fine, court records show.<\/p>\n

Kolbe Gelvin, 21, was cited for damage to property for the Feb. 22 incident.<\/a><\/p>\n

He was caught on camera picking up the ice sculpture, which depicted two hands making the shape of a heart, and throwing it to the ground. The piece was sponsored by the Center for Suicide Awareness, a Kaukauna-based nonprofit, as part of the annual Avenue of Ice event on College Avenue.<\/p>\n

Police said it cost $425 for the Center for Suicide Awareness<\/a> to have the sculpture made. It was on display for less than 24 hours before it was destroyed.<\/p>\n

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The destroyed Avenue of Ice sculpture, February 22, 2026. (Photo courtesy: Center for Suicide Awareness)<\/p>\n

CSA said in a Facebook post it had received “clarity” about what led to the late-night vandalism incident.<\/p>\n

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“He expressed deep regret for his actions, shared that he was having a very difficult day and personally wrote a letter to our executive director asking for forgiveness and offering to volunteer his time to make amends,” the post read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"APPLETON (WLUK) — The man who damaged a downtown Appleton ice sculpture earlier this year pleaded no contest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-446751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}