Vandalism Brings San Juan Capistrano Community Together
Rather than letting vandalism at the historic Mission San Juan Capistrano bring the community down, it instead used the crime as an opportunity to come together.
The 244-year-old Mission’s door was tagged with a heart containing an indecipherable message, and “95 best wishz,” (sic) between the evening of Dec. 10 and early Dec. 11. Supporters of the local Southern California landmark responded by donating money to help fund maintenance and surveillance.
The graffiti has since been cleaned up.
The mission’s executive director, Mechelle Lawrence-Adams, described the act of vandalism as frustrating.
“It’s been a rough year for everybody, and it was just one more thing,” Lawrence-Adams told The Epoch Times. “A salt-in-the-wound kind of thing. It was just so senseless and not meaningful.”