Kings Island resort

Kings Island resort
MASON, Ohio -- A $100 million family resort and entertainment complex will be built on a 39-acre campground at Paramount's Kings Island, the Cincinnati-area amusement park.
The complex, expected to open in late 2006, will be called Great Wolf Lodge and will be run by Great Wolf Resorts of Madison, Wis., according to the Dayton Daily News.
The year-round resort will include 404 suites, an indoor water park, a conference center, family restaurants, arcade, gift shop, spa, fitness center and outdoor recreation area. Shuttles and trams will transport vacationers from the lodge to the park.
Great Wolf already has lodges in Sandusky, as well as in Michigan, Kansas, and Virginia.
Paramount's Kings Island drew approximately 3.5 million guests in 2004, ranking it as the 15th most popular amusement park in North America, according to the industry trade publication Amusement Business.
JFK car on display
A 1963 Lincoln Continental convertible that belonged to President John F. Kennedy is on display at the Museum of Automobiles on Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton, Ark.
It's the second presidential car on display there, joining a 1967 Mustang formerly owned by President Bill Clinton.
The Kennedy convertible, which was a recreational rather than official presidential vehicle, was given to Clinton by a collector and is on loan to the museum from the William J. Clinton Foundation.
The 51 cars on display at the museum range in vintage from 1904 to 1967. The museum also collects antique gasoline pumps and equipment, license plates and other items.
The museum always is seeking additional vehicles and also has surplus vehicles for sale. The Web site shows examples.
For more information, call (501) 727-5427 or visit www.museumofautos.com.
Complex in Louisianaboasts dining, shopping
Shreveport-Bossier City, La., figures the route to some people's hearts goes straight through their wallets. The Louisiana Boardwalk outlet, dining and entertainment complex has opened in the shadow of the area's five major casinos.
The center won't look like a highway-oriented outlet center or megamall. It will be more like Dallas' West Village, with a trolley running between rows of storefronts. Most automobiles will be parked out of sight in a high-rise garage.
The center is at the foot of two bridges across the Red River, one for autos and one for trains, so creating character and ambience there is no small feat.
In addition to stores, the center will have several chain restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, a children's play area with a carousel, choreographed fountains, a riverfront area for outdoor concerts, a bowling alley and more.
For the outdoors person (who also has the shopping gene), a Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World opened in 2003 as the anchor tenant.
For more information, call (318) 752-1455 or visit www.louisianaboardwalk.com.
Nuclear weapon art ondisplay through June 9
It's not quite beating swords into plowshares, but Tony Price has created art from nuclear weapon scraps.
It's on display at the United Nations in New York during the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference.
The Visitors Lobby exhibit continues through June 9.
For decades, Price transformed components from Los Alamos National Laboratories, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, into masks and wall pieces.
For more information, visit www.newsartweb.com/atomicartist.
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