Officials asking for tips

BY ROGER SMITH
MOUNTAIN CITIZEN

WARFIELD — Vandals targeted Warfield Park again over the weekend, and officials are asking the community to help end the vandalism.

“We are asking for tips,” said District 5 Constable Mitchell Bowen. “Any tips will remain anonymous.”

Vandals broke the flagpole, stole the flag, and took down the sign over the entrance to the park community center Saturday. On Sunday evening, vandals pushed the portapotty over, then overnight, vandals turned over trash cans and made a mess.

“That’s sad,” Warfield Park Community Center Board member Denise Chaffins said. “If someone wanted a Christian flag, I’d have bought you one. . . . Stop the vandalism of our beautiful park.”

Warfield Park Community Center Board member Ricky Alley is also disgusted.

“We raise our money by renting the community center out and have events to raise money and donations,” Alley said. “We need cameras to see who is doing this to our park. We work hard to give our community a place to enjoy.”

Alley says park officials would reach out to the Martin County Fiscal Court for help at Thursday’s court meeting.

“Some businesses do help, but some think that because they pay county taxes, they shouldn’t give us anything to make the Warfield Park and the community center better,” said Alley. We do all this hard work for our community, not just Warfield, but our community. That’s people from all over the county and surrounding counties, even those in West Virginia.”

Chaffins said vandals would be prosecuted to the “fullest extent of the law, no matter who you are.”

Anyone with information can contact Bowen at 606-471-9934.