Six Flags Great America announced the New for 2011 attractions on Facebook. It will be 130,000 square foot expansion of the Hurricane Harbor waterpark. They announced that it will include a near vertical waterslide, a double sided surf simulator, an activity pool and more.
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When Jason Sierpien worked his first job as a farmhand in Old McDonald’s Farm at Santa’s Village, it was the last of the “three worlds of fun” that the amusement park added.
It also usually was the last to get funding and support, he remembered.
The entertainment center, which had a restaurant, arcade games and a go-cart track, had closed for one month last September, but reopened with some changes in October.
Located in the former Furrow Building Material building, it first opened in late 2006.
Inside the hospital room, Julie Marti looks for the small signs that her 12-year-old daughter will heal. The squeeze of her hand. The mouthing of the alphabet. A wiggle of a toe.
Maybe today, the mother dreams, her dear Teagan will once again to be able to sit up on her own. Or that doctors will remove the imposing metallic halo around her head, and the family could finally fly home to Parkland.
They linger 1,500 miles away at an American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison, Wis., about an hour away from the amusement park ride that forced them there. For months, Teagan had eagerly anticipated riding Terminal Velocity, a death-defying ride where she would free-fall from 140 feet and be caught by an elevated safety net.
Teagan fell freely, but the net never elevated. She crashed into the ground, blood spilling from her skull. As Teagan lay motionless, most were certain her life was over.
Jason Sierpien, a co-owner of A Zoo to You – a Marengo-based mobile petting zoo – will open The Azoosment Park at Santa’s Village. The petting zoo, which will feature barnyard animals, reptiles and exotic animals, is expected to open within the next month.
“The place has such a huge name recognition and we originally wanted to reopen the barnyard area,” said Sierpien, who co-owns the petting zoo with his wife, Amy. “But it has just taken off and now we have seven acres with some kiddie rides and concessions. It is going to be an amusement parklike atmosphere.”