SPRAY PAINTED messages and broken windows at the new Skeena Junior Secondary combined to make an unwanted greeting for vice principal Dave Crawley and other staff members on the first day of classes there Sept. 2. Graffiti at new school disgusts everybody STUDENTS and teachers at Skeena Ju- nior Secondary are disgusted by the ap- pearance of vandalism on the new school’s north and west walls. The red, white and blue spray-painted graffiti appeared on the walls the night before the $11.4 million school opened its doors for the first day of classes Sept. 2. “I's pretly bad,” says Grade nine stud- ent Krystal Bellman, 14. “I was walking by and I thought it was pretty horrible be- cause it’s anew school — it’s stupid.” -Statements such as “communism rules,” “f*** capitalist opresion (which was spelled incorrectly)” and “equality for all” stretch across the grey cement blocks of the school’s exterior. A set of deep purple double doors on the north side of the building are embla- zoned with the words “fight injustice” in bright red paint. Vice-principal Dave Crawley says school officials don’t believe Skeena students are responsible for the vandalism but otherwise have no indication who may be responsible. “We don’t think it’s the work of kids or at least junior high aged — if you look at the ideas in it,” Crawley said. Teachers and students are disappointed to see their new school defaced, he said, adding the paint will not be easily re- moved. Because the vandalism occurred on cement blocks it cannot be painted over and will have to be sandblasted off which will be costly and may or may not re- move the paint entirely, Crawley said. Two glass windows above the school’s north entrance were also broken in the early morning hours of Sept. 2. Police were alerted to the vandalism at 1:30 a.m. when two former students flagged down a passing police officer af- ter discovering the vandalism, says Ter- race RCMP Cnst. Natasha Roberts. “The two witnesses that were there did not see anybody leave the area,” Roberts said. “There are no suspects at this time.” Anyone with information about this in- cident is asked to call the Terrace RCMP detachment at 638-7400, Pickers need to plan outing AREA SEARCH and rescue experts are once again worried about inexperienced mushroom pickers. “In a number of cases, mushroom pickers have been ill prepared to be in the bush,” says regional Search and Res- cue advisor Bob McLeod. “In [other cases] they have neglected to tell a responsible person where they were going and when they would return.” McLeod said each year this results in missing mushroom pickers and rescue teams have had io go out and search for them. 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