Permission slips become booklets From Montreal Gazette Some school boards have cut outings that they deem to have limited educational value when stacked against the safety risk, such as the Greater Essex County District School Board in Windsor, Ont., which decided a few years ago to ban popular trips to a U.S. amusement park across the border. The school board has since experienced a drop in insurance premiums with the Ontario School Boards Insurance Exchange, said Penny Allen, board superintendent of business. The deaths of seven high-school...

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Fire Breaks Out At Conneaut Lake Park, Destroys Historic Dreamland ... From www.rollercoasterpro.com/community The cause of the fire that destroyed Conneaut Lake Park's historic Dreamland Ballroom and part of the amusement park's midway is being listed as undetermined so far, according to George Deshner, the park's general manager. The fire at the 115-year-old amusement park was discovered about 2 a.m. by emergency medical technicians en route back to Conneaut Lake from a car accident at Conneautville, according to George Deshner, the park's general manager. The fire spread Dreamland Ballroom and the...

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Fire destroys historic ballroom at Pa. amusement park From Philadelphia Inquirer Emergency medical technicians returning from a car accident at about 2 a.m. Friday discovered the fire at the 99-year-old Dreamland Ballroom at Conneaut Lake Park in Crawford County, park general manager George Deshner said. About 16 fire companies responded, but the ballroom burned to the ground, fire officials said.

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Conneaut Lake Park's ballroom now a memory From Pittsburgh TribuneReview If only the ashes of the Dreamland Ballroom at Conneaut Lake Park could talk. The ballroom opened in 1909 and replaced a ballroom that had burned the year before in a fire that destroyed a large portion of the park's midway. In 1943, a substantial part of the park's Conneaut Lake Hotel was destroyed by fire. Opened in 1892, the Crawford County resort was known as Exposition Park until 1920, when it was renamed Conneaut Lake Park. For many people in Western Pennsylvania, memories of Conneaut...

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Court filing describes girl's horror at amusement park after feet ... From www.kval.com/news/national The Superman Tower of Power ride rises above the entrance to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. (AP) - A teenager whose feet were severed last summer in an amusement park ride accident said in a court filing she remembers cables whipping against her body, a burning odor, and a fear that she might not survive. Kaitlyn and her mother, Monique Lasitter, gave accounts of what happened on June 21 in court documents filed Wednesday in a lawsuit against the amusement park.

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