A graffiti free skate park in Tea Gardens last week was the result of Great Lakes Graffiti Buster volunteer Ted Bickford.
Mr Bickford travelled from Forster Tuncurry to spend the day cleaning the skate park.
Great Lakes Council recruited Mr Bickford to clean up the skate park after his work in Forster Tuncurry led to amazing results.
Mr Bickford has been ridding Forster Tuncurry of graffiti for the past 14 years and has researched the chemicals that will best remove the graffiti.
“If they put it on today, I will take it off tomorrow,” Mr Bickford said.
However it is not the removal of graffiti on public property that Mr Bickford is concerned about.
“It’s about kids having pride in what they are given; that’s my aim,” Mr Bickford said
Last year Mr Bickford visited 14 schools in the graffiti busters truck to talk to the students about the pride they should have in the public property they are given by council.
It is now Mr Bickford’s hope that someone in the area will take up the challenge to keep the skate park clean and that the youth also will want the park to stay graffiti free.
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