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SANDUSKY, Ohio, Dec. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cedar Fair Entertainment Company (NYSE: FUN), a leader in regional amusement parks, water parks and active entertainment, today announced that Tim Fisher will join the company as chief operating officer, effective immediately. In this role, Fisher will oversee operations at all of the Company's parks and resort locations. He will report directly to incoming chief executive officer Richard Zimmerman.

"Tim is the right person at the right time to enhance the strength of our management team," said Zimmerman, Cedar Fair's president and incoming chief executive officer. "We are making significant, strategic, long-term investments within and adjacent to our parks. Tim's significant industry experience, coupled with his extensive knowledge of our parks and target markets, will deepen our management team and help us fully capitalize on all of our park-level initiatives. We are excited to welcome Tim to our Cedar Fair family and we look forward to his leadership and focus on taking the overall guest experience to new heights going forward."

 

More to this story here! https://seekingalpha.com/pr/17028976-cedar-fair-names-tim-fisher-chief-operating-officer

I do not see this press release on the CF website yet though. I would have thought it would have went there first? https://www.cedarfair.com/news

So does this mean the original Flying Eagles are going to Sandusky now?

In all seriousness, this is great! Tim has a good amount of industry experience, including some years at Paramount Parks. It's really nice to see Cedar Fair making progress like this... So different from the Kinzel years.

The press release is not under the news section of the Cedar Fair website.  It is located here:  http://ir.cedarfair.com/newsroom/press-releases/news-release-details/2017/Cedar-Fair-Names-Tim-Fisher-Chief-Operating-Officer/default.aspx, under the Investor tab of the website.

Tim Fisher, served as the GM of KI for several years, including when Son of Beast debuted.  He left KI in June of 2002 to become GM of Great America, and later went onto become GM of Carowinds.  (It has often been rumored that he is the one responsible for the original Flying Eagles from KI leaving to go to Carowinds).  Ironically, the person that replaced Tim Fisher as the GM at KI was Craig Ross, who is now the President of the Dollywood Company (the company joint owned by Herschend Family Entertainment and Dolly Parton that operates Dollywood.