IRONWOOD - The famous Ironwood Parks and Recreation Committee met last night and focused mainly on how to divvy up the Norrie School playground equipment. Steve Frank would like to have the equipment stay where it is at the Norrie School Location. However, the Buyers of the school building do not want to retain the equipment citing liability issues.

At the heart of the matter is the question as to who actually owns the equipment. The school district owns the equipment according Superintendent Kolesar. The Park committee believes it belongs to “those people that purchased it”. And who would that be? No one has been specifically named.

Obviously it doesn’t matter to the pirates at the Parks and Rec. Committee, as they spent most of the meeting suggesting all the places “that they” would choose for the equipments new home. After all the theft of playground equipment is child’s play compared to stealing trails and raiding the Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund. Trail Robbers, Grave Robbers, Playground Robbers, HMMMMM HMMMMM HMMMMM!

What the cast of characters failed to recognize was that whoever purchased the equipment, it was given to the school district; and that ownership of the equipment by the school or the school district transcends the city’s borders, making the equipment the property of Erwin Township and Ironwood Township taxpayers as well as the City taxpayers.