My youngest child spent his final four in utero months riding around Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari as Mommy took reporters and travel writers on tours of the parks. When…
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Posts Tagged: Will Koch
Tunnel vision
You may have noticed that Will loves a tunnel. Frightful Falls has one. So does Raging Rapids. The Raven has one. And The Legend has four. There’s something about a…
Read More »In the pink
Turning 30 is a milestone and worthy of celebrating in the pink! Oh, no – not me! (Heavens, no!) Our Director of Merchandise, Vanessa, turned 30 the other day. And…
Read More »The quote that didn’t make it
It was so nice to wake up this morning to see this article in USA Today. (Their circulation is a whopping 2.2 million, baby!) Will did the phone interview with…
Read More »Will he crack?
The folks at WTVW-TV in Evansville have invited Will to stop by Monday morning for an on-air chat between 7:30 and 8:00 am CDT. They want to talk about the…
Read More »Q: When is the color green … blue?
A: When Will says it’s blue! Here’s the story … Will planned to replace the boats at Raging Rapids over the course of two years. A few last year, but…
Read More »Water temperature: Did you know?
If we’d gone to school together, I would have picked Will to be my partner in science class. We had an email yesterday from a woman who was concerned about…
Read More »Bad hair day
This Bad Hair Day photo of Tori, our hard-working rides director, is brought to you courtesy of Will: Now, how nice is that? Tori was trying to lighten the mood…
Read More »Hospitality Training
It doesn’t just happen, folks. It’s not something in the water. … or in the free, unlimited soft drinks. We have to work on being friendly. It means reporting for…
Read More »More calculations
Around here we kid around about each person’s “inner geek” coming out in our work. John knows every dimension of the new water tower. Will can explain the mechanical workings…
Read More »Would you want this job?
I tease a lot of the directors here at the park: I’m sure glad you like your job — I sure wouldn’t want to do it! Happily, not too many…
Read More »Out with the old … in with the new
About a year and a half ago, Will announced in staff meeting: I want to see more Guests walking around the park with plush that they’ve won. Huh? I guess…
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