IVINS — Skaters in Ivins had what park officials there called an unwelcome addition last weekend after a tagger left their mark at the UNITY Park skate park.
The grafitti was left sometime between July 30 and 31 but didn’t last long.
“We got it down right away and the police are right on it,” Ivins Parks and Recreation Director Benny Sorensen told the Ivins City Council at their meeting Thursday.
Nevertheless, Sorensen said it was new for the Ivins skatepark since it opened in November 2019.
“We had the first graffiti at the skatepark,” he said. “It’s kind of irritating.”
The grafitti was sprayed in black paint on the side of one of the flow bowls, which is a sunken concrete depression that appears like an empty swimming pool. It consisted of the word “Gonk” and the image of a cartoon animal head. St. George News is choosing not to publish an image of the graffiti.
According to The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, “gonk” is slang for a “polite way to tell a person that they’re an idiot.”
Sorensen said staff were able to remove the graffiti using chemical graffiti remover as well as hot and cold pressure washers. He added Santa Clara-Ivins Police have been contacted and are investigating.
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