A Moment of "Fun" Left a Serious Problem

Imagine coming to your little school on a snowy winter day to find your playing field and edges of your new playground chewed up with tire tracks from the night before.

As most people know we have recently invested thousands of dollars of government and community money and many volunteer hours to create a proper playground and playing area at our school for use by the whole community. While vandalism and mischief of this magnitude doesn't happen very often on Thetis, when it does it is hard to comprehend. We work so hard and lovingly as a community to put things in place for our young ones, our older ones and for everyone in between.

But it is even harder to know what to do about it. Do the parents undertake a forensic search to match up tire tracks with tire treads to locate suspects? Do we get the police involved? How do we work through conflict like this in our small community?

There is no win-win. Unless those who were involved take responsibility for the damage caused by their actions, we live with sadness, anger, confusion, and suspicion. Our school community is suffering because of a thoughtless moment of "fun".

We are asking if you were involved or if you have information about the incident, that you come forward and do the right thing, which is to make it right, whatever that takes.

Kelly Bannister, saddened school parent