March 16, 2011 in News, Idaho

Silverwood hiring 1,200 seasonal employees

Job fairs to start this weekend

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Silverwood Theme Park will hold job fairs over the next two Saturdays to find the 1,200 seasonal employees who will staff the park from May to October.

The Athol theme park is offering employment to everyone from high school students to senior citizens for jobs including ride operators, housekeepers, retail positions and food and beverage workers. Wages depend on experience and position, but range from the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to $12 an hour, said Nancy DiGiammarco, marketing, sales and public relations director.

The park is now open for six months of the year, following the addition of Silverwood’s haunted house attraction, Scarywood, which welcomes visitors for long weekends in October. The park is open for weekends in May and September and goes full-time through June, July and August.

Employees who stay for the whole season are eligible for bonuses of 50 cents an hour in July and again in August, DiGiammarco said.

Job fairs will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and March 26 in Silverwood’s Theatre of Illusion.

Applicants can visit www.workatsilverwood.com or call (208) 683-3400 for more information.

10 comments on this story so far. Add yours!

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  johnclarke on March 16 at 2:30 p.m.

  So essentially Silverwood has created more jobs than Idaho’s government….and the GOP House for that matter. The Republicans are much too busy focusing on super important matters like guns, women’s rights, blocking health care, not creating jobs, trying to overturn financial regulation….etc.

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  DemoDriver on March 16 at 2:32 p.m.

  As opposed to taxing and otherwise regulating business out of existence?

  I’ve been out of work for some time, from the timber industry no less. Temp jobs are better than nothing, and $12/hr is sadly a damn sight better than a LOT of what’s offered around here.

  Having said that, Silverwood could be fun in places—inculding the staged train robbery (at gunpoint LOL) of that narrow gauge Baldwin steamer (itself a “dislocated timber worker”) that runs 4 miles of track around the place.

  Will have to check them out, then do the math as to what kind of a hit the Idaho state income tax will amount to, then go from there.

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  johnclarke on March 16 at 2:55 p.m.

  “As opposed to taxing and otherwise regulating business out of existence?’

  Please provide evidence of the Democrats taxing and regulating companies out of business. While you are doing that, I will come up the list of corporations that don’t pay ANY taxes.

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  johnclarke on March 16 at 2:57 p.m.

  and on another note, best of luck with the job. I appreciate your willingness to take the $12 an hour. Hope it works out man.

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  DemoDriver on March 16 at 3:03 p.m.

  You’ve got to take whatever you can get—it’s the relocation that sucks when elderly family is elsewheres on acreage and could use the assistance.

  Wages in this region absolutely suck. From looking around it seems that even Moses Lake pays better for general labor than Spokane—which is on par with some really tiny, inbred bergs like Wenatchee and Omak.

  Just check out the WorkSource website for a daily dose of bad news.

  Not laying blame, understanding that it’s all simply a matter of supply and demand, with the labor supply in abundance during a time of near record low demand.

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  oneanddone on March 16 at 3:38 p.m.

  When demand was high all you heard were businesses crying about their workers jumping ship for a quarter more an hour, but they were still paying squat. Businesses in Idaho think that the locals owe them cheap labor and the gov’t owes them a free ride on taxes. Never saw a state so eager to cave to special interests or one with a legislature that cares absolutely NOTHING about those who live here. $12/hr at Silverwood isn’t that bad but you do have a lousy commute, especially with $4/gal gas. Maybe they could run a bus at their expense.

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  DemoDriver on March 16 at 4:34 p.m.

  Grew up in agriculture, worked in timber. “Regulation” IS a killer, when we’re at a point now to where you have to file paperwork stating who has access to your small stand of pears, inculding the family dog.

  Licensing classes, mandated we take at our expense eat several hours and dollars annually. Then there’s payroll, which never gets easier on any given year.

  Now they want us to chip all livestock so they can monitor it via GPS. This additionally requires registration with the feds of the HQ- or in this case, the family home. When your margins are near nill, all those little papercuts add up to a LOT of blood.

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  Bruce (aka thatoneguy) on March 16 at 4:36 p.m.

  Spokane has a plentiful supply (with no end in sight) of high-school dropouts who need jobs & don’t have skills. Maybe that has something to do with baseline wages being so low.

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  Orange on March 16 at 5:07 p.m.

  Wow, John trying hard to make this a political issue.

  Demo, tell them to unionize. They’ll make upward’s of $20 or more an hour. Of course ticket prices, parking fees, and food will take a hit. But who cares.

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  liberal_in_right_wing_land on March 16 at 5:11 p.m.

  These are the type of jobs republicans love…..low paying, temporary jobs with no benefits.