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Does anyone remember Grad Niight? I was working Grad Night back in '94 as a litter giitter when I (and security) observed a guy's lady friend giving him a Monica (before we knew who Monica was) and this "senior" and guest was kicked out of the park. I hope his school and parents told him the facts of life.

I lived in Kings Mills all my life and I remember when Mason was nothing more than a sleepy villiage and was a nice quite place to live. Since Mason became a city and business like P&G moved into the area along with others, Mason has out grown their britches. They have built broad streets with nicely manacured mediums, fancy gas lit street lamps, a huge new municiple building and spent millions to buy a golf course, spent millions for a skate park and oh yea...increased taxes for its citizens. Mason has grown from a police force you can count on a single hand to the huge force they have today. Mason council complains they must increase taxes to pay for all the increase wear and tear on the roads, and added police and fire protection. Then came the talk of Deerfield becomming a city and Mason offer the owners of Kings Island that they can provide all the services and oh yea...trust us when we say we won't add a tax on your guests, your employees will be taxed enough to cover that. It is time to tell Mason to shove it. Mason and our elected officials in Washington think that they can continue to tax businesses and it won't hurt them because they already made too much in profits. If Mason was to vote on this tax and it passes, Kings Island should tell Mason they must pay for thier own police to patrol in the park. As it is right now, this is a gravy over time job for some of the policmen. Nice to see them sit in ther patrol cars in an almost empty parking lot.

Now Stargate is one of my favorite movies and Stargate SG1 one of my best TV series. But who knows what events will happen at KI in 2012. One thing for sure, it will mark 40 years since I first started working at Kings Island!

Any body that drives into Mason sees those fancy street lamps and fancy landscaped streets and all those fancy services that Mason had built and paid for. They have that huge community center that they told the citizens they need more taxes from them to help pay for the upkeep. Mason built that skate board park and bought that golf center. All things the city has no business purchassing or building. As the P&G's of the world, Mason annexed that township land for all the property tax and income tax to fill their coffers. Mason had eyed Kings Island and when the township was talking about becomming a city, Kings Island kind of paniced and Mason saw their move. They promised things that Deerfield Township was aready providing: Fire, Police, water/sewers and road up keep. But Mason as the god father used to say, "Made a deal they could not refuse." They promised no admissing tax. Kings Island fell for it lock, stock and barrel. It is time for Kings Island to tell Mason to shove it! It is time for KI to rejoin the township. Deerfield Township has a fire station located in Kings MIlls that is only less than 1 1/2 mile away. Mason's is 3 miles away or more. There is a country song that saids, "...all the gold is located in a bank in Beverly Hills..." is not true. Mason seems to think that all the gold is located in Mason and it is all that taxes they collect and spend and spend on gold plated pools and soon to be roads.

I know it has been taken down, but I put my claim on the MonoRail. I assisted in the construction of the piers for the track and I got to know it very well. I knew the layout in all the details of the curves the lay of the land.

I always wanted to have a model train layout but the lack of space puts a crimp in it. I have to stick to a virtual layout on my pc. I have a huge interest in constructing model ships and want to build the HMS Victory with all the rigging. The last ship that I built was a 350 scale of the RMS Titanic. Check out this online hobby site: http://www.internethobbies.com/

(emphasis added) Really? And only your hands got cold? Terpy, being bad...again Chaps. Don't forget the chaps. After I bought that bike, I purchased winter gloves, rain suit, insulated riding suit, leather motorcyle jacket!

Even if the temperture is in the high 40's or even in the 50's during October, you will get cold from gertting wet when you ride a water ride. I personally will not ride a log flume or any other water ride during October for that reason. Expect to get wet riding a water ride, be it in the hot days during the summer or the cold days during October. On a different topic but similiar topic, when I first bought my first motorcycle, my hands were almost frozen when I first drove it home. It was during April and it was in the 50's and I was only wearing my leather riding gloves.

It was a cold day and no way I would ride any water ride open during October. If I did and I got wet, which is the intent of the ride, then I would just suck it up. With 3 inches of water in the ride, it would add lots of weight to the log and the more weight, the bigger the wave when it hits it at the end of the drop and skips across the water.

It's actually a reference to the rumored Hangar 18 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, which many UFO conspiracy theorists believe houses evidence of the 1947 Roswell UFO crash. The Megadeth song is also named after the supposed building at Wright Pat. Im pretty sure Hanger 18 isnt in wright pat. They say it is in Area 51 in Nevada. Wrght-Pat is where the aliens from Rosewell were supposted to had been flown to. Hangar 18 was said to be at W-P and had an underground complex.

If parks closed due to weather related issues like mid to lower 40's and rain and people will complain. Parks stay open when the weather is in the mid to lower 40's and rain and people will complain about number of rides being closed even though the park is a ghost town (pardon the pun) with hardly any people in attendence. The way I see it, people will complain regardless of the park being closed or not. Now during thest times, I get a chuckle out of guests that wear shorts and coats and appear to be freezing to death from being cold and wet.

Well we had goats and pigs in my kennel so maybe some of the geese will decide to make a home with me. I am sure they will be much cleaner than those six pigs were! Now if Noah comes to the park and ask where the kennel is, tel him it is closed!

I can top all of these stories. I remember when I was a kid and had to go to the furneral home for a visitation and I was bored out of my life. I decided to go and explore and went upstairs and opened the door of one of the rooms and I received a scare of my life. In that room was where he kept his display of his products (caskets) and I was sure that someone would open the lid and step out of one of those caskets. I was sure there were vampires laying in them and I got the heck out of there. It must had been all of those horror movies that gave me this phobia and whenever I would go into my darken bedroom, I were carry a cross to ward off those creatures of the night. From that very day (night) whenever I had to go to a visitation of anybody, I was sure they were looking directly at me, no matter where in the room I sat. \ If you every visit Kings Mills and notice the bed and breakfast, remember what used to be in that old building. I wonder if the visitors to the bed and breakfast know that is is a former funeral home? Now that would be a great attraction to Kings Island during haunt fest. What is better than to have a haunted funeral home? Can you imagine the screams and shouts the guests will have when one of the coffins opens and out steps a creepy vampire wit a great thurst of blood?

Some of the security personnel look like they could also be part of the protection from all the zombies and their friends.

Any ride can give a whip lash, especially with a prior injury. Ever play crack the whip on the play ground when a kid?

This is what worries me. In a true professional environment, animals could not be stressed past a certain point. Moving animals too much in an unfamiliar place certainly qualifies in this category. Very simply put, so does throwing animals out on display. In an aza environment, for example, animals would undergo a minimal 30 day corontine before ever being placed in view of the general public. ( at least without walls or glass ) This is typically to ensure the animal is not sick, and cannot spread disease to other members of its species if it is. I am curious to see where the animals are coming from. Private owners, or a zoo. I am highly doubting that it is a zoo. And if they are private, what are their licenses or certifications. I would also like to know what animals are going to be used for the petting zoo, and especially for the mazes. I am not trying to start argument. I am just saying that I am curious to know these things. Sorry, but it's just me being..well, ME. It's not the same animals. The animals used at night in the Slaughter House are owned by a park employee who will be there at all times. The animals used during the day are from a professional mobile petting zoo. Both sets of animals are very accustomed to a lot of people being around them. The farm animals from the Slaughter House were transfered over to the Kennel Friday. I work in the kennel and I was informed about the animals before I started my shift. It was a change of pace for sure during my time in the kennel Friday night. I had 2 goats and 6 pigs that night and well, they did what farm animals do. They were well behaved and the pigs allowed me to enter the cage to flip over the water bowls to refill them and to spray them down and wet the bed of straw. I have no ideal as to what pigs say to each other but they were busy talking to each other but I am not sure if they were talking about bacon and eggs for breakfast! On a lighter side, the first thing I did (after sweeping the straw from the office area) was to mop the floor with an extra heaping of bleach in the water and on the floor and spraying the air with air freshner. I kind of felt sorry for my lone dog that I had and his reaction to the pigs!

It is one thing for a park to have a sponsor like "The Pet Day Care Center brought to you by Iams" with just a sign above the door. But to have a roller coaster train plastered with an ad or say every trash can with an ad for trash can bags or rest rooms.....well, you get the drift.

Sponsorships do not cut down on costs but they are done for the marketing of their product. As for naming rights, that does not nor is it meant to cut down on costs. But for the fee charged for the right to name the stadium and or venue, it helps pay for the cost of construction with the ideal of their name being in such large letters that it should increase its sales. Just look at the "donation" Atritium made with the Mason City Schools with the addition of their health clinic. It helped to pay for their athletic field additions.

The Pet Day Care Center used to be sponsored by Iam's pet food with a sign above the center saying such. With this sponsorship, there was no fee for the guests to board their pets at the kennel. We would make up a doggie/cat bag for the guests and give it to them when they leave at the end of the day. We even had a bin full of dog biscuits for the dogs to munch on. In those doggie/cat bags, we would put samples of Iam's pet food, dog biscuits and coupons for the guests. The ideal was for the guests to buy Iam's pet food. We constantly had at least 3/4's of our cages filled, which was when we still had the camp grounds. But after Iam's was purchased by P&G and shortly afterwards, the sponsorship was ended and a fee was charged to use the kennel. Kings Island always had sponsorship's and there is nothing wrong with it.

Cold draft beer - The treat; Cheap cold draft beer - The trick!

What? No yo ho ho and a bottle of rum?

I have not seen any domesticated dogs or cats, other than the colony of ferrel cats that live in the park. When I lived in Kings Mills, we used to be popular for families to drop of their pets that they did not want. Speaking of which, we rescued a 6 week old kitty a couple weeks ago that must had been seperated from its mother, a ferrel cat that lives in the park. It was brought to me and I placed in in our cat cage inside the kennel. I gave it some cat food and water and it went to town with it. It was later adopted by one of our co-workers and she gave it a nice home. We also rescued an injured herring (bird) and also placed it inside the kennel. I called a bird rescue group and they came the next day for it. It was later turned loose and is doing just fine. If you look closely, you will see all kinds of wild animals at the park. Most of them come out at night, just like the raccoons. There is a family of squirls that have claimed the area around the picnic tables outside the front gate and in front of the kennel. They feast on the left overs that the guests leave on the ground.

There is a very pretty black kitty kat with a cute white stripe down its back that that lives in the park and would just love to have you pet it. And it would be glad to reward you with a nice squirt of its well known perfume scent! Also, don't forget all the raccon's that lives and dines at the dumpsters behind the river town pizza at night. Rocky and his friends would just love to have you feed them.

Mason used to be a nice, sleepy town but since they became a city they think they think they are another Beveryly Hills. They started to annex land from the township and have home builders build all those several hundred thousand dollar homes. Have you seen all the fancy street lights and landscaped mediums on the streets in Mason? Have you seen the new city hall? New and recently enlarged community center and pool? Recently purchased of the former Kings Island Golf Center which includes the tennis stadium? New skate park by the new sewer plant? All of this cost money and Mason has one of the highest tax rate in the state. When was the last time Kings Island Drive has been repaved or new street lights installed? The nearest fire station to Kings Island located at Kings Mills, a mile or so away. But Mason's is located all the way to the west, past Mason Mongtomery Road, which responds first to any emergency at the park. Mason needs the tax increast to pay for all of this gold plated improvements they have built. With the current economic down turn, Mason continues to attract all those 500 thousand dollar plus housing delvelopments, which has been featured at Home-a-Rama. How many of us can afford those homes? But we are being ask to pay for all of those gold plated improvements Mason has built. Also watch out when you drive down Kings Island Drive. The Mason Police cars have been parked in the drop off area watching or speeders going 46 mph or more on the Drive. Don't be surprised that they will stop you for "speeding" to also help pay for the curent Mason spending.

I get to pet all the dogs that guests leave in the kennel for me to watch and care for. I remember back in the 90's, a guest brought in a goat with their dog, who were the best of friends. The goat was very cute and was munching on a bown of corn all day long. Now the pig brought in was a really a porker and stubbon as heck. I said to it, "move or you are bacon!" A petting zoo would be really good for the kids to get to know all the various animals.