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IRONWOOD - The City Commission has made the Parks and Recreation
Committee so large that it has become more and more difficult to have
quorum. That’s exactly what happened Monday evening. Five of the
nine members were no were shows. The group failed to have quorum and the
meeting postponed until Thursday.
Kathy Dishlaw, was excused from
being at the meeting. Those who failed to show up without notification
were Marcy Kusz, Eric Lytwynink, Scott Stevens and Laura Thomas.
The lack of a quorum did not prevent the Granola Bar People from
making their pitch for a DNR grant. A grant previously discussed and
determined to be unaffordable, since the City can’t afford the match
required on the million dollar plus acquisition.
An interesting
thing occurred at the last meeting which was a real meeting unlike
Monday night’s gathering of “Talking Heads”
When the discussion
centered around matching funds, Scott Erickson suggested that the
Sisufest people might contribute toward the grant match.
We find
it interesting that the Sisufest people could bank that kind of money,
when at the same time, downtown merchants lost their financial butts
because of the event.
Regrettably, taxpayers and volunteers will
never know how much profit this non-profit event took in.
There
really needs to be more transparency in these matters that are
considered “Community Events”.
We do not want to appear to be the
kind that “See a Commie behind every tree” (old timers expression”) or
ones to embrace McCarthyism, however, there are signs of shenanigans
among some very nice people all aimed at stealing trails away from the
motorized sports people. It’s hard to understand how a very few
self-serving individuals want to steal from the hardworking over taxed
people of Ironwood.
Here’s a thought, very few of the people
involved with caves theft are from Ironwood or the area. Most of them
come from south of the bridge and have lived here less than a decade,
many less than five years. Few if any of them know what a miner’s life
was like, yet alone knew one. Most of the Miner widows I speak to are
against the notion to evict snowmobiles and ATVs from the caves area.
If a miner’s memorial is so important to these individuals from
south of the bridge, why don’t they pat for the Miner’s Mural to be
painted downtown. The Mural is more than two years in the making and
still cannot find enough donors. If my grandfather were a miner I would
have been the first to donate to mural. If I were so enamored with the
Memorial concept I would have also been the first on line to donate.
My dad always said “Talk is cheap!” (another old timer expression )
these Granola bar people from south of the bridge really prove the
point.
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