POSTED 9-16-07 BEECH BEND PLANS BRIGHT CHRISTMAS

Amusement park will offer lighted display, ice skating. Beech Bend Park owner Dallas Jones is hoping to provide a little holiday cheer for southcentral Kentucky with Christmas Lights Spectacular he has planned for the amusement park. Jones said the event is excepted to kick off Thanksgiving night and will run until Jan. 5. That opening date isn't set in stone. Plans to be open Christmas Day and New Year's will depend on finding help. Dallas said that putting on the spectacular was something the family decided it wanted to do. We visited four parks in Pennsylvania and they all had light displays, Dallas said. A professional lighting company that has done such spectacles in Hershey Park, Penn. and Branson, Mo., will install the 109 displays that will include 480 lighted pieces. You will be able to drive your own car and listen to information and Christmas music on a FM radio then hop on the Polar Express train that will take them to Santa's Village, where there will be a 40-feet by 80-feet outdoor movie screen that will feature Christmas movies. Miniature golf will be open, as will the Kentucky Rumbler roller coaster and a few other rides. Admission will be $15 a car load $25 for a commercial van and $100 for a bus. That fee includes movies, golf and Santa's petting farm. Skating will be an additional $7 for adults and $5 for children. Those who don't have their own skates can rent them for $3