Editor: The parents' association and staff of Ecole du Boisjoli, a small, public French elementary school in Tsawwassen, are distressed to report that planters were unscrewed from the walls beside the front entrance, while other planters were overturned, dirt scattered and flowers destroyed by vandals last Saturday evening.
This is the most recent act in a series of vandalism at the school, which is nestled in a beautiful and secluded part of the community.
These acts include defacement by graffiti as well as window breakage that involved costly repair work and necessitated the installation of window guards.
The flowers, planters and window boxes were carefully prepared and tended by a volunteer parent in order to bring joy to the children and colour to the neighbourhood. Volunteer work is a large part of what makes small schools thrive.
These gratuitous and dispiriting acts carried out by individuals loitering on school grounds suggest that there is a bigger community issue at hand. The school is located at 785-49th St. If someone witnessed this vandalism, we would be grateful for a call to Delta Police Department to report it. Merci.
Anne McConnell, Josephine Walsh-Mahaux and Mirka Pennors
Parents' Association (PAC) École du Bois-joli School
