Just another game being played by the city’s parks department?
Maybe they were too busy salting the streets to participate in silly candy cane games?
But the candy cane hunt never took place.
“It is rumored that Santa’s elves were left behind in Sioux Falls after Christmas. It is believed that they hid numerous candy canes in Tuthill Park,†read the description on the Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation Department website of an event scheduled by Parks and Recreation for Saturday morning.
The rumors apparently were wrong.
About a dozen families with children showed up at the park prepared to ferret out the wily Christmas confection. But they had to resort to alternate plans when no one from Parks and Recreation showed up to get the hunt under way. There also was no cancellation notice on the department’s website, and attempts to reach Parks and Recreation officials were unsuccessful; their offices were closed for the weekend.
Maybe that’s why they didn’t show up? Should have had the public works guys take care of the event, according to everyone and their sister, they work 24/7, just not to change light bulbs on Christmas lights downtown, they have to hire a private contractor to do that.
I wonder if the ‘candy cane consultant’ the city hired fell through?
Can’t wait to hear the excuses for this mishap . . .
“Yeah, Carlos Candyland, our director of sugar, snow and winter fun for the Parks Department suddenly became ill and could not attend.”
Rumor has it, they were all in a planning session devising their strategy for selling voters on a $20 million indoor pool with $700,000 a year operating costs.
No time for kids and candy canes!
They can have the candy canes from my cold dead nostrils!
Boy I am under the weather.I helped a Vietnam vet
buddy move last weekend in that vicious ultra cold(no less than 400 “farmers hankies” those 2 days).
Out of scummy tiffy taffy recipient LLOYD Taylors Place.
OBG
I think it is funny how they put so much time and money into their activity guides, then don’t put on the events.
This is incredibly sad – someone screwed up big time, and they should be held accountable.
Wow. Just wow.
Craig, I have been waiting to hear what happened and have not seen anything in the news. The part that surprises me is that there is no 24/7 number to the Parks Department.
Still waiting to hear from Park and Rec……..
If the Director of Park and Rec is not able to handle this one, maybe MMM could hold a press conference to explain.
Failing to follow through on a commitment to SF children certainly seems to rank up there with some of the other things he’s talked about lately!
It’s also important to point out the the SF P & R find it needed that they charge people to change garbage cans at picnic shelters on the weekends (even though the users of the shelters could change them themselves). But mysteriously no one shows up for an event they were promoting.
Here is my conspiracy theory, I think the upper crust in the P & R came up with the activity (with no intent of working at it) and when they asked for the ‘little people’ to work the event (with pay of course) they all said ‘NO’. So what does ‘responsible management’ do in this case? They put on their freaking snow boots, and work the event.