{"id":8439,"date":"2014-10-08T20:47:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=8439"},"modified":"2014-10-08T20:47:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:47:28","slug":"take-a-stand-against-sign-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/take-a-stand-against-sign-vandalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a stand against sign vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve 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\u2019ve 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\u2019s 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.
\nOn the weekend, we placed a Dawe sign on John West Way in the area of another candidate\u2019s sign and today, just the Dawe sign is missing. This is not the first time it\u2019s happened and likely it won\u2019t be the last. I have also noticed that signs for Tom Mrakas – a candidate for Council \u2013 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.
\nThis 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.<\/p>\n

Lloyd Moore
\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve 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\u2019ve 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-2c7","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-15 22:16:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}