Country swing night at the Fun Park happens every Monday and Wednesday night from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. Many of its participants are regulars and attend both days of the week. Although country night is open to the community, members of Utah State University’s country swing club get in for half the price of normal admission.
Teddy Royer, a member of the country swing club, is one of these regulars.
“I love country swing dancing, it’s a blast,” Royer said. “I go every chance I get.”
Country swing in Logan is a great activity for the community except for one problem: the underage drinking it attracts.
“It’s great when everyone there all want the same things, to just have a good time. But then you always have the few drunk guys that show up and ruin it for everyone,” Royer said.
Jared Day, another regular participant of country swing, agrees that something needs to be done about this problem.
“I think that country swing should be a fun safe environment and people should not come drunk,” Day said.
Although the Fun Park has explicit rules about alcohol and tobacco, many of its participants show up intoxicated.
Brett Struthers, a shift manager at the Fun Park, worked country nights all last semester and said that drinking has become a major problem.
The Fun Park employees actively try to keep a clean and friendly environment for all participants.
“We try to regulate it but a lot of it goes unmonitored, they drink in their trucks in the parking lot or just show up drunk,” Struthers said.
“We have kicked them out before, usually if it gets really bad. If they are rough housing, or getting in fights, or being rude towards people with really rude comments, or if we can smell the alcohol on their breath,” Struthers said.
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