Akron Zoo to bring back light show

Akron Zoo to bring back light show

AKRON

The Akron Zoo says it’s bringing back its holiday light show later this year for the first time since 2000.

The Wild Lights show will take place on weekends at night between Thanksgiving and the week of Christmas.

The zoo will be closed during the day on those nights.

The show will feature thousands of lights, illuminated wildlife figures and traditional holiday scenes.

A nightly show focused on animals will be located near the carousel.

Visitors can have their pictures taken with Santa in Santa Land. There will also be a dessert station.

Admission for the display will be $15 for adults and $10 for children.

Discounted tickets will be available for those who buy in advance.

UK airfares plunge after Brexit vote

Airfares from the U.S. to Britain have dropped about 15 percent since the United Kingdom voted to pull out of the European Union last month.

But a study by Boston flight research site Hopper.com said fares to other destinations in Europe also have dropped, suggesting that other factors are at play besides the so-called Brexit vote and the resulting drop in the value of the British pound.

The study found that flights from the U.S. to Edinburgh, Scotland; London; and Manchester, England, have dropped 7 percent to 18 percent in price since the Brexit vote. But flights to Paris; Madrid, Spain; Rome; and Frankfurt, Germany, comparably dropped 14 percent to 17 percent.

Bill calls for family seating on flights

Times have been good for the airline industry, but perhaps not so much for families who fly.

Strong demand for air travel and fees for seat upgrades, entertainment, snacks and checked bags have generated record profits for most major U.S. carriers.

But one of the downsides of this financial windfall is that it has become much harder for parents and children to sit together because planes are more crowded than ever and many airlines charge extra to reserve specific seats.

A bill added recently to funding legislation for the Federal Aviation Administration aims to tackle this problem.

The bill, by Reps. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and Rodney Davis, R-Ill., calls on airlines to create and submit to the Secretary of Transportation a policy to make sure that children 13 and younger are seated next to accompanying family members older than 13.

Geography quiz

Q. What is the capital of Turkey?

A. Ankara. Istanbul, the country’s largest city, was the capital during the Byzantine and Ottoman empires and was called Constantinople until the early 1900s.

Ankara was chosen as the capital of the republic in 1923.

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