I watched several Boy Scouts erect this as part of an Eagle project on Thursday. It was a nice map of the trails on Mt. Rubidoux - he even went to the trouble to use a router to create the trails on the map. By Monday it was defaced.
This park/trail/mountain area has been visited by the public for 80 years. Donated to the city by a local humanitarian and the Union Pacific/Huntington. Over the years many brass (bronze?) plaques have been placed to recognize various people/events. Now they are being pried loose for their scrap value. Some of them were works of art.
This one was stolen and has been replaced with a simple stone inscription
Replacement - already grafittied
Original
This is what's left:
They are ruining what little niceness there is in this area. Is it a lack of punishment? Is it a lack of parenting? A lack of fear of diving retribution?[