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Show I Tully Vijil, building custodian, and Albert Kuipers, elementary school principal, examine the chaos created by a senseless act of vandalism. Bluff School Suffers Vandolisrr Building custodian, Tully Vijil, prepares to untangle thousands of feed of recording tape. He was able to save most of the tapes, many of which were irreplaceable. (Photo by Alvin Reiner.) By Alvin Reiner On Monday, July 12, Albert Kuipers, principal of the Bluff Elementary School was in a joyous mood as he drove to work. The week before summer sum-mer school had ended and he couldn't wait to process the results. Mr. Kuipers had good reasons to be ecstatic for his students averaged almost a full year's advancement during dur-ing the one month session, which placed a large emphasis on mathematics. Albert Kuipers Kui-pers and the school staff devised their own materials and math games, and took the students out of the classroom and into places of business to help them realize practical applications of their students. However, when Mr. Kuipers Kui-pers opened the front door the big bright fluffy cloud he was riding on transformed itself into a dense forboding nimbus thunderhead, for a most repulsive sight greeted him. Late Saturday night, July 10, vandals apparently entered through one of the doors leading into the schoolyard, by removing the hinges and created havoc within the building. Some forty-one windows were broken, mostly by marbles which the intruders found in one of the classrooms. Large quantities of meat were removed from the cafeteria cafe-teria freezers and left lying about to rot. The perpetrators gorged themselves on junk foods such as soda pop and snacks which tend to indicate they were mostly juveniles. Educational recording tapes, some of which were the only copies in existence, were found tangled with one another anoth-er and stuck together with cellophane tape. Through the patient effort of building custodian Tully Vijil, many were saved. The trailor adja-dent adja-dent to the school which was used for the tutoring program was also ransacked. At present, outside of the petty cash in the school secretary's desk, nothing could be ascertained a being stolen. Mr. Kuipers and San Juan County Deputy Sheriff Rudy Cook estimate the damage at between two and three thousand thou-sand dollars. f he investigation is continuing continu-ing by the Sheriff s Department. were placed on a job, while most offices averaged 35. In accomplishing this, the Moab Job Service Office conducted a "Hire A Veteran" campaign for one month; solicited and received support from all news media in the community; conducted staff training and self appraisals in order to improve the Veteran Program. This award for being the Best in the Nation was a result of the efforts on the part of all staff members of the Moab Job Service Office. |