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Students admit to mall graffiti spree

Two females have admitted to helping vandalize the Boitanio Mall parkade with graffiti last Wednesday evening and will repaint the walls.
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Boitanio Mall operations manager Roger Edwards points to some of the graffiti he discoverd in the upper level of the parkade Thursday morning.

Two females have admitted to helping vandalize the Boitanio Mall parkade with graffiti last Wednesday evening and will repaint the walls as a result, mall manager Jeanette Tuerlings said Monday.

“Through information on Facebook the girls were made aware the RCMP were trying to find out who had done the damage and they came forward.”

When operations manager Roger Edwards arrived at work Thursday morning at 6:30 a.m., he discovered a table with empty alcohol cans and bottles in the middle of the parkade, some empty rubber spray paint containers on the floor and a “ton” of graffiti.

Edwards has worked at the mall for 31 years, and said the entire parkade was repainted last summer.

He and other staff members were busy Thursday morning reviewing video surveillance footage to determine the vehicles that had entered the parkade Wednesday evening.

 



Monica Lamb-Yorski

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A B.C. gal, I was born in Alert Bay, raised in Nelson, graduated from the University of Winnipeg, and wrote my first-ever article for the Prince Rupert Daily News.
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