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Training delay spares runner from Boston blast Michael Downey was registered for Boston Marathon Eric Welsh The Progress
Michael Downey hasn’t given it much thought, yet, but it might be a good idea that he stayed home. As bomb blasts created havoc at Monday’s running of the Boston Marathon, the Chilliwack runner watched from the comfort of home. “I was supposed to go,” said Downey, who appears as the only To see people rCehgi il sl itwe ar ec kd crossing the entrant on marafinish line in a the thon website. haze of smoke, “But I just behind in it’s hard to got my training believe how and didn’t quite as something like feel prepared as this might have I wanted to happened be.”D o w n e y the ~ Michael ran marathon last year and Downey knew exactly where the explosions happened. “I was right there last year, along Boylston Street near Copley Square, and I recognize the locale very, very well,” he said. “From what I remember, everything is so tightly cordoned off on race day, and the last thing anyone would have expected is something like this. To see people crossing the finish line in a haze of smoke, it’s hard to believe how something like this might have happened.”
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Chris Steunenberg, owner of Cultus Lake Water Park, stands atop the newest platform featuring three new slides. Seen here are the Bazooza Bowls which use centrifugal force to push someone around and around in the bowl until they drop through the hole in the middle and into a pool of water. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
Bodacious new bowls for water park fans Jennifer Feinberg The Progress
Three exhilarating new rides are under construction at Cultus Lake Water Park. Thrill-seekers and slide aficionados are already abuzz in anticipation of the June 1 opening of the park with a new sky-high tower, blue-and-white bowls, and inline raft ride. The Bazooka Bowls have twin slides leading to blue and white bowls, originally from Irvine, California, set to become the crowning glory at the water park, says owner Chris Steunenberg. “It’s state of the art, and no one
else in B.C. has them,” he tells the Progress, in an interview atop the newly built steel tower, rising high above the park. The original name of the ride, Bazooka Bowls, is being maintained because of the well-established history, and stellar feedback from a range of Youtube posters offering reviews. Riders climb the tower and get jettisoned down a covered tube before emerging into the bowl. Centrifugal force whips them around the bowl, until it slows slightly and they plunge down into a pool through the middle. There’s a lot of positive reaction to it from former water park fans
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in the U.S. “It was named one of the top 10 wildest water slides in the world,” he says. “I thought it would be a perfect fit for our market place.” They heard a water park in Irvine, California was shutting down to make way for a new redevelopment. The Steunenbergs went ahead and bought the 10-year old Bazooka Bowls, tore them down, transported them and then galvanized the steel, and rebuilt the attraction at Cultus Lake. Two of the three new rides are the Bowls, and the third is an inline raft ride with a 30-foot drop,
that they’re thinking of calling the Boomerang. The four-person raft takes riders through a curving course, with three figure eights, and a big drop. It’s got high banking corners that curve right in on the rider. All together it’s been a multimillion investment, he says. The business has re-invested in the park every year for the past five years. “We’ve shopped the best rides so a local family does not have to go to California to get this incredible experience. We’ve brought California right here.” Continued: WATER/ p10