Winnipeg landmark sign restored following damage

A Winnipeg landmark received a recent patch and repair after several letters were falling apart.

A Winnipeg landmark is looking less trashy as of Tuesday.

The Garbage Hill sign, a beloved Winnipeg icon in Westview Park modelled after the famous Hollywood sign, was recently damaged, with a few letters broken into pieces and falling apart.

The sign was initially installed as a prank in 2018, as an homage to the park’s previous history as a landfill. The city and SRS Signs put the permanent sign in place several months later.

David Fielder, a resident who runs in the area, loves the sign and was dismayed at seeing the damage, so he decided to take matters into his own hands starting Friday.

“It’s a beautiful sign, and it’s so important to the area,” he said.

SRS Signs came in this week to help patch up the sign and saw how Fielder had finished the repairs.

“I like that people are involved in it and want to be connected to it,” owner Shane Storie said.

Storie said in the years the sign has been installed at Garbage Hill, it has only been vandalized twice.