Parks are for the people. You, the taxpayers, pay the bill to develop and maintain them. Do you know that you pay a heavy cost also for repairing damage by fourth class citizens who do such disgusting things as; -Stripping shingles off a new restroom for firewood. -Pulling out dozens of flowers and plugging the toilets and urinals with them. -Driving automobiles over lawns, leaving deep tracks and breaking sprinkler heads. -Splashing paint on the brick walls of a park pavilion. -Filling toilets and sinks with gravel. These and other acts of vandalism and wanton destruction have occurred in Provo City Parks. And probably the vandalism isn’t any greater here than in some other communities of the area. In a region which prides itself on education and culture, how can young people or adults be so unmindful of people’s rights? I-low can they commit such acts of destruction without someone observing and reporting their actions? Surely any concerned citizen would feel a responsibility to report to police or city parks personnel so that guilty persons might be arrested and brought to justice. At the new Fort Utah Park people have used the miniature fort for toilet purposes when excellent restrooms are only 25 yards away. They’ve broken the stairs leading to corner bastions, torn away rustic sheeting from lookout towers, broken windows and air vents in the restrooms and plugged sewer lines. – At the Lions Park in the (grandview area, destructive visitors bashed in a door with a sledge hammer, broke the doorknob. smashed beer bottles on the floor, damaged light switches, and broke windows. There are examples of vandalism at other parks also The cost of maintenance is heavy when people turn animal and use their talents to destroy instead of constructively. It’s time for community conscience to rebel and for the citizenry to join with the parks employees and police to crack down on the vandals.