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Friday, October 2, 2015
Community steps up after vandal chops trees SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN
Eight trees at the École Mt. Prevost playground, which officially opened on June 17, were felled overnight by a vandal. Buckerfields CEO Kelvin McCulloch has offered to replace the trees for the school. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
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It was a distressing morning for staff and students at École Mt. Prevost Elementary, Wednesday. They arrived at school to see eight of the trees that were planted when the new playground went in this summer chopped down. Principal Lise Pagé confirmed the destruction. “Eight trees were sawed down. It is very sad for the children,” Pagé said, adding the school district’s operations department was quickly called to clean up the mess. “It was really upsetting for all of the students.” Pagé said the school is working closely with the school’s Parent Advisory Council to come up with a solution. “We don’t know yet what we’ll do with those trees,” she said. “They mean a lot to the students.” Witness Kyle Hughes said he and a friend saw the alleged lumberjack. “I was hanging out there with a friend last night at the play-
ground just sitting there talking and some guy walked over towards one of the trees and I heard cutting noise,” Hughes said Wednesday. “So I yelled over to where he was, asking him what he was doing, and he said cutting an [expletive] tree and then threatened me with his hand saw.” Hughes and his friend left the area and called police. Nor th Cowichan/Duncan RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Krista Hobday said police aren’t sure whether it’s somebody with a grudge against the school or PAC, or if it’s more of a mental health situation. “We’re unsure if there’s any mental health issues involved though he did do what we consider to be the very unusual in turning to threaten the complainant with a saw,” she said. “It was quite dark so we were unable to locate him,” Hobday said, noting that despite rumours, the suspect’s age is unknown. See BUCKERFIELDS, Page 9
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