A Euclid non-profit dedicated to helping people with disabilities was vandalized again and employees and volunteers are fed up.
Help Foundation has supported people with developmental disabilities in Northeast Ohio for decades. Two years ago they opened a greenhouse to provide vocational training for people with disabilities. On Wednesday night it was vandalized for the second time. The crime was captured on their surveillance camera.
A little before 9 p.m. Wednesday someone wandered up to Help Foundation's greenhouse on Shore Center Drive in Euclid, picked up a rock, and chucked it at the window. "Frankly, we're sick of it," said Doug Knoop, Chief Asset Officer at Help Foundation. Knoop said this is the 5th time vandals have targeted them in three years.
"That's what we discovered when we got here this morning, another window was broken," Knoop explained. "They cost about $400 to replace, they're special glass for a greenhouse now as a nonprofit that really cuts into our operating expenses." Knoop said this is the second time their greenhouse had a window shattered. They've also had people start fires at their picnic tables outside which they've since removed.
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