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I worked with a Bill Balfour in 72/73 at Kings Island. Wonder if they are the same?
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States do not issue passports, only the US Department of State issues them. The US requires all people entering the country to possess a valid passport. Also check with your auto and health insurance policies as to coverage in Canada. Most should be no problem when traveling there. Check with both the Department of State and with Canada as to requirements and policies.
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They used to use the separate season pass gate as an overflow entrance but it hasn't been used in years.
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I loved riding The Racer backwards. I loved the seat on the very end of the train and enjoyed seeing where I had been instead of seeing where I am going.
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Also Canada can deny you entry if you ever had any type of a criminal conviction such as drugs or DUI. I would also exchange your American dollars for Canadian dollars in the States and be warn of fees on your credit/debit card use. Like Terpy said, Canada is not the 51st state.
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Kings Island has cameras every where, including in the parking lots. Another thing park security enforces is the rule against having grills. I have seen guests try to use a grill at the picnic tables outside of the season pass building and were forced to stop. One guest had just placed the charcoal into the grill and fired it up and could not understand why they were not permitted to use it. All they had to do was look behind them at all the trees and the fire hazard it presented.
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It does not matter if you drink a beer or two at the outside picnic area or in the parking lot at or in your car, it is prohibited. I have seen security force guests to dump their beer out as they were on the grassy area by the picnic area by the season pass building. They were also told that in the future, please don't sit down in the grassy area where dogs do their business, at least if you don't mind what you are sitting in. But they can be charged with having an open container if Mason PD catches them and if they happen to be sitting in their car, with the keys in the ignition, then how do you spell DUI?
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The former IR is used for more things than just hosting pizza parties and other events. They use it as a commissary to prepare food used else where in the park. Don't forget the entire front gate complex is used more than just to allow guests to enter the park. You have offices, shops, restrooms, equipment rooms that is housed in the front gate complex. Any new front gate entrances would have to include all of these uses, plus the restaurant and commissary. One of the features of the currant entrance is the eye popping effect of the grand fountain and tower as you step through the entrance. The current entrance serves its purpose as it is. But maybe some improvements to enhance the guest experience as they have their tickets scanned and enter the park.
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What is so difficult for the park to serve brats,mets and German potato salad along with regular hot dogs in the Festhaus? By not at least serving some German food is like going down to Octoberfest in Zinzinnati and not having German food and beer to eat and drink. Now I am not saying serve sandwiches with that foul smelling cheese with onion on rye bread (which I do like at times) but some simple German cuisine.
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I remember when Octoberfest had a very German flavor when the park first opened in 1972. Starting on International Street, where each building was themed to a certain nation, the building where the pretzel place is now was the German house. They sold German food there, brats, German potato salad, and of course, beer. The Bier Gardens was a German themed food and beer building and had authentic German music with a German band playing music. The employees wore a German themed uniform. The entire area had German music piped in instead of the pop music that is played in the entire park now. This applied to each of the themed areas of the park. Bring back German food, a German band, German music and have the employees dressed in German attire.
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Back in the summer of 1973, I saw Charlie Dinn walking in the park and I ask him if I could come work for him in maintenance and he said, yes. Come over to my office after Labor Day and you can start. I was hired as a full time maintenance helper and worked with the carpenters constructing the Lion Country Safari mono-rail. But after it was all completed, there were lay offs and Iw was one of workers let go. It is very hard to get hired full time and it is very competitive. Especially in the high skilled areas of in the maintenance department (HVAC, trades, mechanics, landscaping). The number of full time is not that many and they do have seasonal workers during the operating season.
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Just remember applications for employment are conducted online at the park's web site. You do have three choices as to your top three job preferences. If you want to get a chance on being hired, don't limit your choices. Always use any position as your third choice. Just don't limit yourself to three jobs only and only those three jobs. Unlike getting hired in the outside, where training and experience are the major factors in getting hired, the park is after people willing to show up for work on time ready for work each day. They will train you and you will advance from there to other jobs in your job area. Once you are hired, if you do well during the year, the odds are you will be rehired the next year.
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If you loose your pass, for whatever reason, there is a fee to replace it.
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After Labor Day, "regular" season passes are not valid. So your answer is yes, it is good on Labor Day, but not after.
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State income tax will decrease. Try going to states like New York and California and compare their sales tax rate with Ohio. Major interstate routes through PA (I-70,I-76,I-80) are all toll roads. Same with NJ and other states. Now imagine if I-70, I-75, I-71, I-77 in Ohio were all toll roads from each end of the state. We have it made in in Ohio. We can afford not to travel on the Ohio Turnpike on the northern part of the state.
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You can just ask to ride in a centrifuge that WPAF base has to train pilots. You will black out from the G forces that it places upon you.
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Do what fighter pilots do to combat the G forces: Squeeze your butt cheeks constantly and take rapid deep breaths. While pilots wear G suits to keep the blood flow to their upper body, they also use this technique. The pilots for the air force Thunderbirds do not wear G suits and use this technique while flying their jets in their shows.
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I wonder if they have an opening for a proofreader?
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How many people strike a balance after they use this RFID chip to make their purchases? Same after they use their debit card? Do you still use a paper check and strike a balance on your register after you write that check? Do you keep track of what you spend and what your balance is? I bet not. If you used cash, you know what you are spending and you think do I really need to buy that? Having cash to make purchases will limit your impulse buying and spending more than you had budgeted. My father would always strike a balance on his check book after each check. He refuses to use a debit card, even though they offer it to him for free. My neighbor used to write checks and wonder why her checks had bounced. She would just write checks as if thinking she must still have money in her account because she still had checks left in her checkbook.
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Just because it is preloaded, does not mean people will not continue to add more to it or add more to it at the get go. They will not have think they are really spending real money because they are not directly touching the cash to hand to the merchant. Think about how it we would apply this to our taxes when it is deducted from our paychecks. Rather than having each tax dollar deducted from our paycheck, we should write a check to the IRS in April. If we paid our taxes all at once, we will really know how much we are paying in taxes and demand we stop reckless spending and stop coming to me to raise my taxes. It is the same way with this. If funds were loaded into it, we have no ideal just how much we are spending until it is too late. Rather than buying that life sized stuffed animal with this RFID chip, think twice before buying it with cold, green cash.
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During the off season when the park closes, I go to my winter home on the beach in Hawaii or I will go on the around the world cruise on the Queen Mary 2. Other than that, I just think about things that might be.
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This is another step towards going to a cashless society. Rather than receive a paycheck and receive cash for it, have it and all funds deposited into a debit card or an RFID chip device. You can bet the IRS would like this as a means to do away with the underground economy where people are paid in cash on the side. The government would want their share of the taxes that they are loosing right now and with that, be able to spend even more. But I hope that day never comes and I refuse to partake in the use of said device.
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Like Dennis Speigel said, it will encourage impulse spending and make it less of a hassle to whip your hand into your pocket for cash. As long as dollars are still legal tender, I will continue to pay with cash. Lots of people will load their hard earned cash onto this chip and will have no notion how much they have spent and it will not feel like they are using "real" money. People will end up spending more than they had planned and next thing they know, it will cut into their money they had budgeted for other things. I am also worried about the hacking potential that might result from this. But one thing not being said is the tracking potential this will allow the parks. They can track your movements and your buying habits. The parks could even put your season pass data onto it and you do not have to bring any cash or credit/debit cards with you. Just swipe your RFID chip and have a fun day.
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Does KI have editorial control over KIC? Last I checked, KIC is not owned or operated by KI. Even if employees follow the KI guide lines as stated in the handbook, it seems they still take exception to them being members here, even if they do it on their own time and on their own computers.
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Drinking Alcohol in the Parking Lot
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Mason PD might have an issue with people that might be downing a couple in their car. Depending on the number of beers downed, you might be issued a DUI or having an open container, both of which are serious charges. Mason PD actively patrols the parking lot looking for break ins and other offenses. Once while working at the north parking tolls, there was an accident out front on Kings Island Drive in which Mason PD found several opened cans of beer and he was charged with DUI.