It’s 7 a.m., 49° and headed to 57° today. It’s a cooler start to the week.

The Chronicle reports that vandals targeted the new playground at Dolores Park:

It took more than six years from the time neighbors began lobbying for their worn-out playground in San Francisco’s Dolores Park to be replaced to the grand opening celebration two months ago that drew hundreds of kids eager to scale the new climbing structures, glide down the new slides and bounce on the colorful rubbery ground.

It took vandals just one day to mark the new playground with graffiti, and only a few weeks more for instruments in the whimsical music garden there to be damaged, most notably with the removal of six of the 14 metal keys from the popular xylophone.

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Hélène Goupil is a former editor at Mission Local who now works independently as a videographer and editor. She's the co-author of "San Francisco: The Unknown City" (Arsenal Pulp Press).

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