Worlds of Fun is launching a huge hiring effort as it prepares to embark this spring on its 50th anniversary season.
The 235-acre theme park, waterpark and resort plans to hire more than 3,000 seasonal employees.
According to a Monday release, Worlds of Fun "anticipates filling most of those roles during a weeklong hiring blitz to be held Feb. 18-24 as part of the largest-ever recruiting campaign by Worlds of Fun's parent company, Cedar Fair Entertainment Co."
Some of the available positions include…
The Kansas City Chiefs' run of five consecutive AFC Championship games brought in another round of higher-than-normal air traffic to the city's first airport.
Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, which was dedicated by Charles Lindbergh in 1927, is a destination for private and charter jet traffic. Even after the then-new Kansas City International Airport (Code: MCI) opened in 1972, the downtown airport has remained one the area's busiest airports thanks to corporate, charter and recreational flyers.
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The new company will have 325 employees, including 80 in the Kansas City area, a spokesman told the Kansas City Business Journal. It also will be led by the former CEO of a local competitor.
A Jan. 10 KCBJ article initially broke the news that one of North America's top 50 protein processors planned to lease about two-thirds of the proposed 327,000-square-foot building.