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Maintenance 2017
Most recent date first.
May 13, 2017: plaster crumbled off
May 25, 2017: repair begun
Eyes on the park. The playground cob structure is solid, in its twelfth year, but the two-year vandalism plague keeps on. It seem that the playground needs more attention, both unscheduled (by park users) and scheduled (by park staff).
May 13, 2017
graffiti plastered over
May 8, 2017
graffiti and wood and nastiness
doll with face smashed
This happened sometime in the few days after the first fix. The doll on the ground had its muddy dress lying nearby (not in the photo). A nasty, nasty image. Time for much closer supervision until the vandals get tired of looking for their chances.
April 27, 2017
The cob looked worse every day in the last week of April. A letter to the city councillor got some action, since the staff felt unable to clean it up, and so the serious vandalism began.
April 27, 2017: cob enclosure completely blocked
April 27: next step: lots of shingles torn off
April 28, 2017
April 28: Fixed: exposed roof area nicely tarped
Fixed: mess inside the loop all cleaned up by rec supervisor
May 3, 2017
May 3: fixed: new shingles to replace the vandalized ones
The shingle repair began and more work was scheduled for the week to follow.
Maintenance 2016
This year, for the first time in 11 years, there has been graffiti, and it looks like whoever the people are, they are interested in keeping it up.
Sept.30 2016
The graffiti sections were replastered by park staff Michelle Webb. Then a month later there was new graffiti:
Nov.6 2016
One of the graffities seems to be a reference to the summer's peanut butter smearing in the playground, which was all over the news. Copycat?
"Sex drugs and peanut butter"
