Judge to rule on temporary injunction in Honey Creek Resort lawsuit
By Beau Bowman
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DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — The former operators of the state-owned Honey Creek Resort in Appanoose County asked a judge for a temporary injunction to block the state from hiring another party to reopen the resort, a month after the state shut down the facility and locked out operator Achieva.
The state told the court the dispute began with a phone call in which Achieva’s president and CEO, Beth Henderson, threatened to shut down the resort, giving the state the ability to terminate the contract.
Henderson testified that the resort’s children’s water park had been a persistent money pit and posed safety hazards. She said officials would not allow them to remove the pool and described equipment problems and injuries.
“[There was a] rope course, and there was a lily pad. We had to remove those. The slide was so rusty, and there were sharp edges. We had kids sliding down the slide, cutting themselves. Our lifeguards were having to carry around boxes of Band-Aids,” Henderson said.
Her attorney followed up with: “Did the slide have a nickname?”
“The butt cutter,” Henderson answered.
District Court Judge Jeffrey Farrell did not issue a ruling on the temporary injunction at the hearing and said he would file one in the coming weeks.
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