Verona_vandalism

Jeff Green | Apr 05, 2012

Back to HomeFeature Article - April 5, 2012 Verona Hardware vandalised – againBy Jeff Green

Chad Van Camp, the owner of Verona Hardware, said that the damage done outside of his store last Saturday night, March 31, amounts to more of an annoyance than anything else, but since it is the third incident in the past year, he's getting very tired of it.

Gardening materials that are stacked outside the store were the target of vandals, who opened a bag of peat moss and spread it over the parking lot, spread some other material on Main Street and took some product home with them.

“A customer called me on Sunday morning to tell me that there was a mess in my parking lot, so I called the police, and met with them at the store, then I cleaned up some. We spent a couple of hours on Monday cleaning the street and re-stacking our garden products,” Van Camp said.

Last year there were two separate incidents of vandalism at the store. In one case, someone took a water hose and sprayed water into a bag of peat moss until it exploded, and in another someone spray painted the back of the store.

“In the spray painting incident, the police officer who came out said they had an idea who it was. They went and knocked on a door and the boy who answered had the same colour paint all over his pants, so these people are not exactly a threat to the CSIS computers or anything” said Van Camp.

Finding who committed the other acts of vandalism is not as easy, unless anyone saw them being committed.

Verona Hardware is offering a reward for information about Saturday night’s incident. Anyone who may have seen or heard anything is asked to call the store at 613-374-2851