Checking In On the Park Vandals

Our parks are in deplorable shape. Our Mayor for Life has diverted money from the parks income tax, passed by the citizens, to help subsidize his failing golf course. This year alone, council rubber stamps Ron Mang, Larry Slagle, David McCune, and Taxman Hersher, with Council President, and the mayor's loyal enforcer, Glenn Gamber, breaking the tie, voted to appropriate almost $200,000 of park tax money to buy the restaurant at the Legends of Massillon Golf Course. They bought it, according to Parks and Recreation/Legends Golf Course office manager Julie Jenkins, "without a business plan."

The mayor's public relations flak, Parks Czar Kenn Kaminski, knows he can't say the parks are a mess because he doesn't have money for basic maintenance and upkeep after it has been sucked up by the unprofitable golf course. He blames our park problems on "park vandals." Autumn is now here. Let's see what the park vandals were up to this summer.

Below, we have a picture of a section of the rubberized Campbell walking path in Reservoir Park. It really is rubberized. See the red sections along the side? That's the rubberized part. One of our more destructive park vandals, neglect, has been terrorizing the walking path. Perhaps basic upkeep would tame neglect. Apparently, we will never know.



This is a park grill. Seriously. It is.

Imagine taking the family to the park for a nice cookout on one of these taxpayer funded grills. These pictures show yet another insidious park vandal, oxidation, hard at work. Oxidation has eaten a hole through the bottom of the grill, which caused the grill to crash down over the post. We sure hope the kitchen facilities at Club Legends are safe from the evil atrocities caused by oxidation.


Look, a red trash barrel. Look closer. It ain't red. Oxidation has been vandalizing this innocent barrel as well.

Glad to see our .3% income tax for parks and recreation hard at work. It seems to be money well spent.