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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Little League building broken into ... again
Annette McGee Rasch
IVN Senior Contributing Writer
Illinois Valley’s Little League just can’t
catch a break. Last week, once again, the
Little’s League’s building at Jubilee Park was
vandalized. Little League supporters have lost
track of how many items the building has been
broken into in recent years.
“There’s nothing there of value. It’s
senseless. They are just making a huge mess,”
said Little League organizer Shelley Davis.
“Though they did burn some things this time,
so we have the state fire marshal working on
this case now.”
The city of Cave Junction tends Jubilee
Park and is forced to spend endless time and
resources trying to keep up with the damages
done to city property on a regular basis.
Cave Junction’s city recorder, Ryan
Nolan, said “They break in all the time. This
time they broke into the snack shack and the
Little League’s shed. Weekly, the city is doing
repairs to the bathrooms and other structures,
cleaning up vandalism and painting over
graffiti. And especially the last few years,
there’s been a lot more vandalism here.”
The effort to protect the park and keep it
clean and wholesome for families and children
ebbs and flows with the seasons and varying
levels of community involvement. Often, a
rash of park damages brings volunteers out
to help keep an eye on the park and prevent
criminal activity.
“Unfortunately we can spend a lot of
money putting in cameras to protect a shed or
the bathrooms, but it doesn’t really accomplish
anything, damaging a $200 piece of equipment
at the park won’t get anybody in very much
trouble, even if they’re caught,” Nolan added.
“Our best results have been spending
more money making the buildings less
accessible. At this point they are just damaging
the walls,” Nolan said. “Hopefully people can
help Little League purchase a cargo container
to make it much more difficult to break into.”
McLanahan
named to All-
State football
Congratulations to
Skylar McLanahan for
being named to the second
team 3A All-State football
team. He was honored in the
position of Returner. This is
our first All-State player in
two years at IVHS.
(Photo by Dan Mancuso, Illinois Valley News)
Skylar McLanahan makes a lay-up during a home
loss to Gold Beach Saturday, Jan. 21.
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