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8- The Oakville Beaver, Friday September 8, 2006 www.oakvillebeaver.com IS THE game PLAYING you? We can help... ADAPT Problem Gambling Services · Free · Professional · Confidential Vandalism increases in summer Continued from page 7 set in garbage cans and Lane residents to attend the Port-O-Lets set ablaze. This summer, the Town next committee meeting on Sept. 27 at 7:30 pm at Abbey of Oakville launched a Graffiti Hotline -- call 905Park High School. or e-mail It's vandalism. It appears 338-4392 to increase in summer time. roads&works@oakville.ca. Residents can report It's annoying the heck out of graffiti and the Town will Oakville residents. clean it up within 72 hours. What it isn't, is new. Earlier this summer, Racist or hate graffiti gets Towne Boulevard resident cleaned up immediately and Elka Ruth Enola, who's reported to police. Graffiti on someone active on the Oakville arts scene, wrote a letter to the else's property, say a cable or editor complaining about telephone company, is taken vandalism in her neigh- by the Town to that authority and the two sort out a bourhood. That letter prompted clean-up plan. Vandalism costs taxpayothers with similar experiences to pen their own let- ers money and keeps parks staff busy repeating work -- ters. and in some Enola cases sees servreported two "The police, who ices, like the large iron do care, tell me provision of a wheels were that there simply Port-O-Let in a pulled out of is nothing that park, removed. her lawn and they can do." It's not flowers overuncommon for turned. Across Oakville resident parks crews to the road, a cable Elka Ruth Enola clean up broken box was broken glass and open. Her charred newspan e i g h b o u r 's recycling was put on a car pers from parks and playroof. Previously, the neigh- grounds one day, only to bour had had the roof of a have the same debris reapconvertible slashed and pear in the same spot the other neighbours had their next day. Town officials encourage garbage set on fire. While Enola also wrote residents to use local parks that the police care, but to deter would-be vandals. However, often damage can't do much, she suggested a solution might be to occurs after hours and resipour money into personnel dents are asked to keep their to police the town more -- eyes open and report probif that's what residents want lems. The Town tells residents to pay for. "The police, who do care, to call police if they spot a tell me that there simply is problem. In some instances nothing that they can do. the only action that may They tell me, `It's summer. come out of it is a report, Stuff like this happens but that record can be used everywhere, not just in your by other authorities like the neighbourhood. We just CCCs at a later date. Last summer, the Town don't have the people to monitor the buses and the permanently removed the streets late at night,'" wrote Port-O-Lets from Lions Valley Park because of fires Enola. In the summer of 2005, and the concern the valley Ward 1 councillors were lands would be set ablaze. Occurrences of Port-Obusy with young BMX bicyclists cutting trails through Lets being set on fire also the parks and particularly became commonplace in engaging in the very unsafe Clearview's Kingsford Park, Park and practice of sailing their Neyagawa bikes over the cliff at Bronte Millbank Park. Garbage cans are also Bluffs Park. Elsewhere in town, pub- often set on fire. 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