Franklin family cleans up graffiti at Province Park

Magnolia and Everest Eickhoff clean-up graffiti at Province Park earlier this year. Submitted photos”> Magnolia and Everest Eickhoff clean-up graffiti at Province Park earlier this year. Submitted photos Two Franklin teens helped make a local park look nicer by cleaning up graffiti this fall. Magnolia and Everest Eickhoff and their family decided to clean up graffiti and re-paint a damaged part of a mural in Province Park. The clean-up started in October and finished in November. Magnolia Eickhoff said she first saw the graffiti in August. “It was just annoying,” she said. “Sometimes people just don’t get enough attention or don’t have the right outlets for their feelings, and so they do rude things like spray-painting a tag over an actual piece of art.” Magnolia and Everest, along with their parents Matthew Eickhoff and Denise Charboneau-Eickhoff, brought soap, water and wire brushes to clean up the graffiti. They also fixed the paint on a mural with guidance from Matthew Eickhoff, who is an artist, Charboneau-Eickhoff said. The Eickhoffs said they care about public art and wanted to do their part to help keep the park beautiful. “Really the kids were looking for no recognition,” Charboneau-Eickhoff said. “They just wanted to...