{"id":523188,"date":"2026-07-13T03:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523188\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T03:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:19:09","slug":"sand-sculptures-damaged-by-vandals-at-vancouver-island-beach-festival-organizers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523188\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand sculptures damaged by vandals at Vancouver Island beach festival, organizers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Parksville Beach Festival says a sand sculpture of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, shown in this handout photo, was among those damaged by vandals on Sunday, July 12. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Handout &#8211; Parksville Beach Festival (Mandatory Credit)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 12, 2026 | 5:10 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>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<p>It happened at the Parksville Beach Festival in Parksville, B.C., where multiple sculptors had been participating in an annual competition. <\/p>\n<p>The festival society\u2019s director Cheryl Dill says volunteers discovered the damage at around 6 a.m. Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Parksville Beach Festival says a sand sculpture of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, shown in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-523188","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-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523188","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=523188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}