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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014
Repairs will cost ‘quite a few coffees’ ing on the rootballs of the plants and throwing them at the doors. The tape has been sent to the RCMP’s criminal forensics laboratory in Ottawa to be enhanced for the investigation. Patterson noted the timestamp on the video shows the attack happened just before 9 p.m. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Oceanside RCMP at 250-248-6111.
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UPDATE On Tuesday, Pacific Brimm owner Teresa Patterson posted on Facebook that several people have contacted her and her staff “and the same youths’ names (keep) coming forward. I am personally impressed with the youth I have spoken to that have expressed their disappointment that the vandalism occurred. If this is the good that comes from last week, it shows what great kids we have here. It’s only a few that cause the damage. We will be removing the video posts shortly, we are just waiting on police.”
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Pacific Brimm owner Teresa Patterson sweeps up the debris in the coffee shop’s patio. [NEIL HORNER PHOTO] NEIL HORNER OCEANSIDE STAR
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he Pacific Brimm coffee shop in Parksville was the target of young vandals Wednesday night last week and owner Teresa Patterson has a hard time not taking it personally. It is, after all, the fourth such incident since she took over the business in early August. Patterson arrived at work at 7 a.m. and was met at the door by cook Mike Thurber, who gave her the bad news – someone had caused significant damage to the rear courtyard. “I tried to open the back door but it didn’t want to open,” she said. “I went around to the side entrance and found the back door had been wrapped shut with wire. I took a look around and, to be honest, I cried.” The culprits, who were captured on the shop’s security cameras, had tipped over two totem poles, smashed old-fashioned globe lights, tore down a trellis and upended and then trampled numerous planters.
“They don’t make the globes any longer, so they have to be special-ordered and they cost $80 apiece,” Patterson said. “Along
with shipping costs, that’s about $700. That’s quite a few coffees.” The video shows the culprits, pre-teens or young teens, jump-
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