Amusement and Theme Parks

Send me an Angel (The Allen American)

15 Mar 2010

The Special Angels Among Us Fundraising Banquet, the 12th annual dinner, live and silent auction benefiting the Allen Special Olympics Delegation program, will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Plano Centre.

Theme parks hit with tidal wave of diverse, overqualified job applicants (Norwalk Reflector)

14 Mar 2010

LOS ANGELES (MCT) — Theme parks are being flooded with applications from job seekers, as unemployed mortgage agents, sales clerks and construction workers who can’t find work elsewhere seek temporary positions that often pay little more than minimum wage.

Brain-eating zombies invade Disney in Iger plan to win boy fans (Seattle Times)

14 Mar 2010

Hammered by the global recession, Disney CEO Robert Iger is pouring billions into attracting a new generation of kids — boys especially — raised on violent video games and reality shows.