Acton BIA to join war against graffiti with clean up effort

The Acton BIA and several volunteers will be out in full force on Saturday (April 13) to clean up graffiti around town. They are targeting 16 major locations, with landmark properties like the Roxy Centre, The Hide House and Acton Town Milk on the to-do list.  “It (graffiti) really does make the town look rundown,” BIA coordinator Matthew Galliford said. “It makes it look unwelcoming, especially at night. You don’t feel comfortable being on the streets.” Volunteers from the downtown Acton business community, town council, Halton Regional Police and the average citizen will all take part. Galliford says, in his experience, that Acton traditionally has not been as big a target for vandals as other communities. Some isolated incidents were reported in the past, but nothing compared to 2024 when tagging was particularly prominent. Graffiti on the Family Barber Stylists building on Main Street. Acton BIA supplied photo “We ended up with this little epidemic that happened earlier this year where in a matter of four days, entire alleyways were painted overnight,” Galliford said. He recalls one of the walls of the Dollar Stretcher Daze shop went from having a few small tags to “being almost covered in a matter...