#PACKAGE CENTRAL SANDUSKY OHIO TRIAL#
It was a stop on the Underground Railroad, Charles Dickens visited here in the 1840s and Cedar Point has the famous Blue Streak wooden roller coaster, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2014.īut the Penn State specter lingers as long as the trial goes on. (One bar patron stepped to within spitting distance and angrily pointed at the back exit.) "Whatever is happening elsewhere is unfortunate," says city manager Nicole Ard, "but this is a great community to be in."Īrd then listed some of the cool things going on in Sandusky: a triathlon, a youth sailing regatta, a revitalized downtown and several fishing tournaments. Several calls and visits to local businesses yielded curt comments expressing little awareness of the coincidence. She's not the only one professing ignorance.
Asked about it last week by Reuters, Bauer said, "We never thought about the connection with the other Sandusky." That directed people to disturbing details from the ongoing trial in Bellefonte, Pa. Then leading up to Father's Day, Bauer's group put #Sandusky in a tweet promoting a spa package at a local resort. "But we've not heard of any negative connotation." "When the scandal first came out, I thought, 'Oh, I wish he had a different name,' " says Jill Bauer of the Lake Erie Shores and Islands tourism bureau. It helped that the news broke in the fall, after the height of the travel season. Officials here say there hasn't been any noticeable decline in tourism since the Jerry Sandusky scandal began late last year. "You say, 'We're not affiliated.' It's like trying to recuse yourself from something that happened in your family and it wasn't you. "You tell people you're from Sandusky and they're like, 'What?' " says Biechele.
Now there's a worry "Sandusky" will become known for something else entirely. Then it became known for one of the world's top amusement parks, Cedar Point. Sandusky has Native American roots, meaning "cold water." Perched on the shores of Lake Erie, this city was originally a place where ice was harvested before refrigeration took over. But type "Sandusky" in a Yahoo! search and you'll get a long list of stomach-churning news before you get a glimpse of the jewel of a town with the crisp summers and the neat, new marina. Jerry Sandusky, accused of 51 counts of child molestation in Pennsylvania, has the same name as the city of 25,000 halfway between Toledo and Cleveland.
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