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Thursday, January 24, 2013
A 20-year-old Piedmont ordinance targeting minors will be heavily enforced after recent acts of vandalism at city parks. Piedmont Mayor Rick Freeman told the Piedmont Journal that recent damage at the city’s Veteran’s Memorial Park will cost about $1,000.
Freeman said a bench honoring a wounded WWII veteran from Piedmont was recently overturned and broken. Other acts of vandalism include beer bottles littering the area and items being stolen and thrown into a nearby pond.
City officials hope stronger enforcement of a citywide curfew will curb vandalism. According to the Journal, the curfew was passed in 1992 and doesn’t not allow minors in public places after 11 p.m. on weekdays and after midnight on weekends.
The park is not the only facility to be damaged lately. Freeman told the Journal that someone used a vehicle to damage the yard at the the Boy Scout house at the Piedmont Sports Complex; he also said he recently collected two dozen beer bottles from the grounds outside the house.
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