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JENNIFER MOODY
For Mid-Valley Live
TURNERÂ â The father had lost his little boy at age 5. Thirteen years later, he was still searching for a place to preserve his sonâs memory forever.
He found it, he told Susan Vaslev, in the bricks Enchanted Forest is offering for purchase to help the amusement park survive the COVID-19 shutdown and repair the damage from Februaryâs ice storm.
âIâve been looking for the right place to put his name ever since, and this is it,â he wrote.
For him, and for the thousands of others who have told Vaslev how much her familyâs business has meant to them for five decades, Vaslev, the co-manager of the park, is committed to getting Enchanted Forest up and running again.
SALEM â Enchanted Forest will remain in business after raising over $360,000 from fans of the amusement park just south of Salem.
In October, Enchanted Forest warned it would go bust after nearly a half century of visitors flocking to the park each summer to ride the Ice Mountain Bobsled Roller Coaster, brave the Haunted House or stroll through Tofteville Western Town.
Pandemic restrictions sharply reduced its number of visitors this year. To make up for lost revenue, the Tofte family, which owns and operates the park, set up a GoFundMe page seeking to raise $500,000. The family explained that the money was needed to cover expenses such as payroll, insurance, taxes and maintenance performed on rides while Enchanted Forest closes for the winter.