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Seen in today’s Providence (RI) Journal

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Wed 10/20/2021 Page: A1
MOUNTAIN BIKERS VOLUNTEER TO SCRUB HATE GRAFFITI FROM ROCKS IN STATE RECREATION AREA
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Jack Perry Providence Journal | USA TODAY NETWORK
For a group of mountain bike riders, the decision to help clean hateful graffiti from boulders at the Big
River Management Area in West Greenwich was easy.
“We are offended by this filth, as any decent person would be,” said Alan Winsor, a West Greenwich resident and president of the Rhode Island Chapter of the New England Mountain Bike Association.
Contacted Friday by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Winsor and five other members of the association agreed to go to the management area Tuesday morning to remove the graffiti, which included a swastika and what appeared to be sets of SS lightning bolts.
See GRAFFITI, Page 10A
Keith Tremblay stretches across a boulder to reach graffiti with a scrubber in the Big River Management Area in West Greenwich on Tuesday. Tremblay was among six members of the Rhode Island chapter of the New England Mountain Bike Association to volunteer to clear swastikas and SS lightning bolts from the rocks.
PHOTOS BY DAVID DELPOIO/THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL
Jeff Arnold of the state Department of Environmental Management holds a can of paint remover at the boulders. He enlisted the help of the mountain-biking group.
Graffiti
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West Greenwich resident Renu Englehart spotted the graffiti about three weeks ago and contacted the DEM — but said she was frustrated the department didn’t move sooner to remove the offensive symbols.
A member of the East Greenwich Town Council, Englehart wrote on Twitter Thursday, “As a brown person who walks every day in RIDEM woods, picks up trash and tells everyone how great these properties are, why are we allowing tagging in the woods to happen? Everyone uses these as contemplative spaces.”
The DEM said staff shortages prevented the department from getting the boulders cleaned sooner.
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