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Pictured is the sculpture that was vandalized last week at Lakenenland. (Photo courtesy of Tom Lakenen)<\/p>\n
MARQUETTE \u2014 On Wednesday, Tom Lakenen of Lakenenland found that his sculpture park had been vandalized. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere was fresh snow and a few fresh snowmobile tracks Wednesday morning, no other tracks,\u201d said Lakenen. \u201cBack at the lean-to by the snowmobile trail, a sculpture was tipped over and two American flags were ripped from it and destroyed. A propane bottle and burner was thrown into the snowbank, and a box of returnable cans thrown around in the lean-to. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe following day there was more vandalism to the same sculpture and the log book, and a box of snowmobile maps taken and (potentially) burned. Two days of back-to-back vandalism is more than I care to deal with.\u201d <\/p>\n
Lakenen took to Facebook to announce that the beloved sculpture park on M-28 will be closed to snowmobiles \u201ceffective immediately.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cDo not expect bonfires, coffee, or hot cocoa for the rest of this winter,\u201d said the post. \u201cThe only exception is for neighbors on M-28 and Shot Point using the park strictly to access the trail.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sculpture in question is in support of the people of Minnesota including Alex (Pretti) and Renee (Good), and for no ICE,\u201d said Lakenen. \u201cI\u2019ll be (darned) if I\u2019ll willingly give up (my rights) to ICE \u2026 I will try again someday when the whole country is not so hostile.\u201d <\/p>\n
Annie Lippert can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 550. Her email address is alippert@miningjournal.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pictured is the sculpture that was vandalized last week at Lakenenland. (Photo courtesy of Tom Lakenen) MARQUETTE \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,155643,155644,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-276472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-front-page-news","15":"tag-lakenenland-closes-to-snowmobiles-after-anti-ice-sculpture-vandalized","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}