Graffiti Artist, Cop+Property Owner of HVRA Talk Graffiti Community Building

HVRA - Harbord Village Residents Association hosted a "Street Clean Up" event Saturday October 17, 2009.

Colin Furness, a local resident, and member assigned to graffiti issues for HVRA Board of Directors spearheaded the event along with Humber College Police Foundations student Justin Shea.

Fifteen youth volunteers from Central Technical School, York University and Humber College pitched in to help out. Several students involved in pre-charge diversion or EJS (Extra Judicial Sanctions) for vandalism graffiti related issues participated in this community building graffiti event.

14 Division School Watch officers Richard Rhone, Brian Herman, Matt Cunnington and Mark Boorsboom assisted in the event, along with Toronto Crime Stoppers Youth Officer/Toronto Police Legal Graffiti Art Coordinator Scott Mills.

The goal was to paint over vandalism graffiti with an oil based primer, and HVRA are encouraging local residents to take that as a first step, and paint their vandalized garage doors.

Residents were also offered the services of a graffiti mural artists to do a commissioned mural on their garage doors. Three property owners took up the offer for murals, and arrangements were made with individual graffiti artists in attendance between the property owners and the artists to complete these murals for the cost of spray paint.

For more information on "Youth in Neighbourhoods - A Positive Approach to Graffiti Management", a policy in the Ontario School Resource Officers Training Manual.. visit the link under the Toronto Police Graffiti Program under 'Economic Development' here:

http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/graffiti/program.php

For videos on this day and other Graffiti -Community Building Projects visit Youtube here:

http://YouTube.com/LegalGraffitiArt
http://YouTube.com/TorontoBMX

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[Noid193]

legal graffiti work is better than an ugly blank wall any day!!

[blackjin21]

graf peroid is betther u kno i applaud u cops good way for us to get art up i have an idea like i go to brampton and sauga area to see my bois cuz i live on campus there are no legal walls there u should look in to that but up legas in brampton and sauga

[AKYNoner]

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