Kennywood To Begin Daily Operations, Host Job Fair

Pittsburgh PA

07 June, 2021

8:28 AM

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PITTSBURGH, PA — Attendance has been so good initially and Kennywood and its sister water park Sandcastle that both are adding hours and days to their operating schedules. Kennywood also is hosting a job fair on Monday from 3:30 to 6:30 p. m. in which applicants will get a free sampling of the park's legendary Potato Patch fries. Kennywood to add nine summer operating days to the 2021 schedule. The park will extend hours on Fridays to 9 p.m., with daily operations from June 9 through August 23. Beginning July 4, the park will add an hour to Sunday through Thursday operations, closing at 8 p.m. Kennywood will be open weekends through the end of October and host Halloween events that had to be canceled last year. Regarding employment at Kennywood and Sandcastle: In April, parent company Palace Entertainment increased wages at its properties nationwide, including boosting the starting seasonal pay rate for the two parks to at least $13 an hour for high school graduates (or those at least 18 years old). Further, targeted increases will now pay food and beverage team members e $10 an hour for 16 and 17-year-olds, and $14 an hour for 18 and up. Lifeguards now make at least $15 an hour at Sandcastle.