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The makings of a mural

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South Surrey RCMP Const. Troy Derrick works with Grade 10 students Leeann Wells and Brittany Ruckaber on a mural hoped to deter graffiti vandals from targeting Earl Marriott’s football storage container.

A colourful mural on a storage container outside Earl Marriott Secondary is hoped to deter vandals from leaving ugly scribbles on its walls.

Students in the school’s First Nations program, working with South Surrey RCMP Const. Troy Derrick, added the graffiti-style mural to the container last week.

It has “somewhat of a First Nations feel to it,” Derrick said of the design, which spells out ‘football’ and features various football equipment as well as a medicine wheel. Grade 10 student Travis Grandjamb said he is optimistic the art will be respected by taggers.

“We figured if there was a mural on it, it would stop some of the graffiti,” Grandjamb said. “If they respect artwork at all, maybe it’ll deter (them).”

The mural is not the first of its kind that students from the program have been involved in. Through an initiative spearheaded by Derrick, murals have also been painted at Jessie Lee Elementary, in the Semiahmoo Park bandshell and on a wall of the Ocean Village Farm Market, at 14 Avenue and King George Boulevard.



Tracy Holmes

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Tracy Holmes has been a reporter with Peace Arch News since 1997.
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