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Bottles, beer cans (empty and full), empty cups by the dozens, discarded clothing, tearing up flora to line the roof of "lean tos", chalk? designs on trees. This is ongoing activity, and the following were present at 8am Sunday morning, August 20th:

1. Enter Shoreview Park, drive to northern most point of the parking lot (past the restrooms) where entry/orientation sign for Boeing Creek Park is. 80 yards inside to the left is where discarded bottle, clothing, and chalked trees are. While grounds crew cleans that debris up, please ask them to look over the creek embankment (between the two trails, one leading to wet and dry creek crossing and the other to the lower soccer field). On that slope is a discarded 8' length of ground contact 8"x8" timber with two long rebar pieces sticking out. This was pulled up from somewhere in the park and has kicked around in that clearing for months and someone finally threw it over the edge.
2. At the soccer field north end there were dozens of empty beer cans and plastic cups littering the field.
3. Along the open trail immediately below that soccer field are empty beer cans.
4. Just as you go down the trail below Right Field in the lower baseball field (nearest Innis Arden Way) there are discarded beer cans.
5. Continue down that trail below the baseball field, and take the upper woods trail that heads north and parallels Hidden Lake; there are two shopping bags with dozens of full cans of beer

I have reported this after hours partying/vandalism before. This activity is ongoing and is most every night, at one level or another. I know because I walk my dog there early each morning. This is probably juvenile activity, but it should not be ignored. I have not seen any evidence of needle activity yet and don't want to. There are already homeless people parking and squatting in their cars in the upper parking lot on most mornings.

Please alert Shoreline Police and ask them to advise their patrol officers.