Busch Gardens to detail new attraction on Wed
Busch
Gardens plans to unveil details about its new attraction for 2007 at a news conference
Wednesday.
Officials at the theme park have stayed tight-lipped about the
attraction. However, plans filed with James City County officials say it could
be up to 50 feet taller than the Alpengeist roller coaster. In addition, the theme
park's parent company applied for a trademark on the word "Griffon"
last month.
This and other information have led fans to speculate that the
park, which hasn't unveiled a new roller coaster since Apollo's Chariot in 1999,
will open a roller coaster called "Griffon" - perhaps even a "dive
coaster" like one that opened at Busch Gardens in Florida last year. Invitations
to Wednesday's news conference play on the word "dive" as they tout
the "biggest news ever to dive into Busch Gardens Europe."
Settlement's
new church structure set for 2007
Workers will finish a new Anglican church
building in Jamestown Settlement's re-created fort by early 2007, the living-history
museum said this week.
The new church, costing up to $600,000, will replace
an older church that's been in use since 1957. It's the 10th building constructed
at the re-created fort in the past decade, in advance of the Jamestown 2007 commemoration.
A
spokeswoman said it's unclear exactly when the new church would be finished because
that would depend on weather, availability of materials and other factors. The
current church is the last remaining fort structure from 1957, when Jamestown
Settlement opened for the 350th anniversary of Jamestown's founding.
