Group of volunteers restore Heart of Uptown following vandalization [Video]

A group of volunteers got together Saturday to restore a beloved art installation in Waterloo after it was vandalized.

“We found out that it got vandalized,” said Jeyas Balaskanthan, executive director of the Uptown Waterloo Business Improvement Area (BIA). “So one of my team members came into the office and said, ‘see what happened to the heart?’ And we walked on over here to see that it was spray painted three quarters all in black.”

“I was just really sad like why? It seemed so pointless because it’s not like a negative symbol,” said clean up volunteer, Natasha Krahn.

The BIA says the Heart of Uptown was vandalized sometime Wednesday night.

“Whoever did that, if they come forward, we want to chat with them once,” said Balaskanthan. “We’re not going to look for punitive stuff. We just want to have a conversation and learn what was the purpose of doing …