After Eugene ice cream shop is vandalized, a community rallies

The morning after someone shattered the glass door at Alma Vasquez’s ice cream shop in downtown Eugene, Rodger Deevers got out his brush and drove to Peek-A-Boo Delight.

For the next two hours, he painted the plywood makeshift door, ensuring that when customers walked in, they’d see Peek-A-Boo Delight’s name and cuddly mascot, a winking teddy bear holding an ice cream cone — not the scene of a crime.

“I wanted to take a negative and make it a positive,” said Deevers, a financial adviser and friend of Vasquez’s. “In painting this, I feel better.”…

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