By Dan Spalding
News Now Warsaw
WARSAW — Warsaw Parks officials are pledging to learn from problems that arose Wednesday during a slip-and-slide event held at Lucerne Park.
The city previously used the sledding hill at Kelly Park for slip and slide events but moved it this year to Lucerene due to a dredging project at Kelly Park.
Organizers realized their new location at Lucerne was not conducive to the slip-slide concept because the landing area was not as grassy as what they had at Kelly Park and that some of the kids got scrapped up a bit at the end of the slide.
After trying other locations, the event was canceled and park officials then posted an apology for the circumstances on its Facebook page.
The few comments reacting to the post seemed to be understanding.
Superintendent Larry Plummer was asked about the situation afterward and said some kids suffered scrapes as they slid off the tarp.
“We will learn from this and move forward from this event and provide the best programming possible,” Plummer said. “I have the utmost confidence in our recreation department that they will continue to provide great programming like they have.”
He said they hope to return the event to Kelly Park next year.
