The damage was discovered about 6 a.m. Sunday by volunteers, say organizers of the Parksville Beach Festival.<\/p>\n
PARKSVILLE \u2014 Organizers of a Vancouver Island beach festival say multiple artists were left devastated after vandals partially destroyed several sand sculptures over the weekend.<\/p>\n
It happened at the Parksville Beach Festival,\u00a0where multiple sculptors had been participating in an annual competition.<\/p>\n
The festival society’s director Cheryl Dill says volunteers discovered the damage at around 6 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n
She says the sculptures looked like they had been climbed on and kicked apart, leaving artists upset to see their hard work reduced to a pile of sand.<\/p>\n
Dill says the other artists participating in the competition immediately agreed to share the winner’s prize money with the artists of the damaged sculptures.<\/p>\n
She says the sculptures are being repaired.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 12, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The damage was discovered about 6 a.m. Sunday by volunteers, say organizers of the Parksville Beach Festival. PARKSVILLE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-547131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}