- $6,374.63 to Barber Chemical for the water system and water park for previous years purchases.

- Kubinski Business Systems, $3,612.17 for debts dating before 2005.

- STI Creative Marketing Group, $5,076.46 for pre-2005 expenses.

- Penelec, $40,000 for past due electric bills.

- Griffin Motors, $25,000 toward its debt of $50,000.

So, if you subtract those payments from the estimated $117,000 operating loss for the first nine months of this year, it would reduce the 2005 loss to about $29,000.

Citing the horrendous bookkeeping records at the park that he has been trying to sort since named general manager in September, Deshner said he is still struggling to get the records straight to make sense of the report.

For example, he said despite fact the numbers show a loss of only about $29,000 for 2005, the unpaid debt continues to grow.

Some of that can be attributed by the fact the unpaid taxes continue to grow because of interest and other fees attached. Interest continues to accrue on other bills as well.

“We are going to get better,” Deshner said, noting that refers to both the accounting and the revenues generated at the park.

Plans are to start a new accounting system Jan. 1 in an effort to straighten out all the accounts and get a handle of what is owed by the park and to the park.

The report had to be filed with the Crawford County Court of Common Pleas because the park was declared a charitable trust last year and is under court supervision at this time.

Jane Smith can be reached at 724-6370 or by e-mail at jsmith@meadvilletribune.com