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ALEXANDER Maier is not impressed by vandals who tore up a portion of the
North Vancouver cemetery, the resting place of his two granddaughters.

Grandfather mad
at grave vandais

Robert Gaister

News Reporter
robert@nsncws.com
ALEXANDER Maier
doesn’t need any more
grief in his life.

The 77-year-oid gor
enough to last a lifetime on
July 14, 1990, when his rwo
granddaughters were killed
im: a motor vehicle accident
on the corer of Berkeley
Road and Mt. Seymour
Parkway. Seven years later,
the memories of Lisa and
Linda remain just as strong
in their grandfather’s mind.

Maier continues to place
flowers at the site of the acci-
dent and visits the girls’
graves every one or two
wecks. On Nov. 7, he placed
some flowers on the graves,
burt was shocked upon his
return last Friday to find not
just their graves disturbed,
but most of the lower por-
tien of the cntire North

Young drunks

likely cause
of destruction

Vawouver cemetery.

Maier attributes the cause
of the damage to “kids doing
wheelies.

“I would just love ro
catch the kids that do it
because it’s just willful
destruction,” said Maier.

It’s not the first time
something like this has hap-
pened.

He said two years ago a
reckless vandal even man-
aged to damage head stones.

Then, this past spring,
kids returned to wreak more
havoc on the final resting
ground of many North
Shore residents.

“They must have gotten
stuck in there because the
ruts were a foot deep,” said
Maier. “The grass is stili

cormng back from that one
and now this.

“It just makes you won-
der what kind of people live
in this world,” he lamented.

According to North
Vancouver RCMP Const.
Tom Seaman, Maier is most
likely correct in his assump-
tion that kids are at the root
of the problein.

“It’s certainly not senior
citizens,” said Seaman.

“It’s more likely young
people, probably under 20,
probably intoxicated and
probably not very inrelli-
gent.”

Seaman added vandalism
at the cemetery is not a reg-
war occurrence though he
confirmed it has happened
before.

The = perpetrators are
rarely caught because they
are rarely spotted at the time.

“Ir sure makes us wonder
what people are thinking
when they damage proper-
ty,” he said.

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