Take a stand against sign vandalism

October 8, 2014 · 0 Comments

I’ve lived in Aurora for 33 years and am helping one of the mayoral candidates (Mayor Geoff Dawe) as part of his election sign team and I’ve been appalled at the number of signs that have either gone totally missing or have been vandalized over the past couple of weeks. While you can expect to lose some lawn signs due to pranks, it’s the large ones that go completely missing that have to make me wonder given that these signs are on wooden stakes, are pounded into the ground and are all quite large. What is most disturbing is that some candidate signs seem to be targeted more than others.
On the weekend, we placed a Dawe sign on John West Way in the area of another candidate’s sign and today, just the Dawe sign is missing. This is not the first time it’s happened and likely it won’t be the last. I have also noticed that signs for Tom Mrakas – a candidate for Council – are being slashed and stakes broken. In fact, we put up the Geoff Dawe sign, drove to our next location and not twenty minutes later as we back tracked, a Mrakas sign had been totally destroyed.
This vandalism is a criminal offence and I urge residents to call York Regional Police at 1-866-876-5423 should you notice the removal, defacing or destruction of any election sign.

Lloyd Moore
Aurora