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NEW PRIORITIES<br />
Make Community Outreach<br />
Part of Your Business Plan<br />
STEWART IRON WORKS<br />
More Than a Company, Part of<br />
the American experience<br />
CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE<br />
America’s First Professional<br />
Regional Theatre<br />
VOLUME 4 / ISSUE 2<br />
MARCH/APRIL 2017<br />
<strong>ULTIMATE</strong><br />
MAGAZINE<br />
THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE FOR <strong>ULTIMATE</strong> AIR SHUTTLE<br />
ATLANTA!<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
Ultimate Magazine March/April<br />
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56<br />
34<br />
52<br />
42<br />
8<br />
48<br />
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2017<br />
6<br />
Ultimate News<br />
8<br />
New Priorities<br />
New Opportunities<br />
Making Community Outreach<br />
Part of Your Business Plan.<br />
by Brian Cesca, General<br />
Manager, Charlotte Region,<br />
DataChambers, LLC<br />
18<br />
Welcome to Atlanta!<br />
Exciting, charming, historic, and<br />
Ultimate’s newest destination.<br />
by Max West<br />
30<br />
Don’t Ya Just Love Spring?<br />
The season of blossoms,<br />
baseball, and thoroughbreds<br />
is finally here.<br />
by Keith Sprunk<br />
34<br />
More Than A Company<br />
Stewart Iron Works is part of the<br />
American Experience.<br />
by Rick Pawlak<br />
42<br />
WCPO INSIDER<br />
The Story Behind Fiona The<br />
Hippo’s Risky Birth<br />
by Christine Charlson,<br />
WCPO Contributor<br />
48<br />
Cleveland Play House and<br />
the Community<br />
America’s first professional<br />
regional theatre partners with<br />
local organizations.<br />
by Erica Beimesche<br />
52<br />
Hope Springs Eternal!<br />
For baseball fans, Spring Training<br />
is a time when anything is still<br />
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56<br />
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COMMUNITY<br />
NEW PRIORITIES<br />
NEW OPPORTUNITIES<br />
Making Community Outreach Part of Your Business Plan.<br />
by Brian Cesca, General Manager, Charlotte Region, DataChambers, LLC<br />
WITH THE CONSTANT PRESSURE<br />
and focus of many organizations around profit<br />
margin, revenue growth, value to customers<br />
and leadership in their respective market,<br />
it seems one bullet point is often forgotten:<br />
How to be a good steward in the community<br />
in which they operate. And if that point is not<br />
part of a company’s leadership mission, it<br />
certainly won’t flow down to empowering its<br />
employees to have a similar mindset.<br />
In the first 15 years of my career, I<br />
had the opportunity to work with many<br />
organizations. Reflecting back, it is no<br />
wonder that many of these companies<br />
struggled to truly establish themselves in<br />
our community. Many of them achieved<br />
financial success to some extent, but were<br />
seldom known as a company that was<br />
impacting the community that surrounded<br />
them. Community outreach was rarely<br />
discussed within these organizations or the<br />
leaders in my own company.<br />
As a business development manager, my<br />
goal was focused 100% on closing deals. I had<br />
personally volunteered at local nonprofits<br />
such as Habitat for Humanity, NCTA and<br />
Apparo (which I will talk about in more<br />
detail shortly). However, it was always by my<br />
own choosing and never part of an overall<br />
corporate mission statement. It wasn’t until<br />
my most recent job, at DataChambers, that<br />
this perspective changed.<br />
Five years ago, I became a business<br />
development manager for DataChambers.<br />
At that time, the company had some brand<br />
awareness in the Charlotte market. However,<br />
I was tasked with understanding why we<br />
had awareness, but not recognition. For<br />
me, the difference was that people knew<br />
about DataChambers, but didn’t understand<br />
who we were. I decided to approach a good<br />
friend, who was working for one of the most<br />
well recognized construction companies in<br />
Charlotte and the region. I asked him what<br />
he and his company did to create such great<br />
brand recognition, as well as their positive<br />
community presence. His response to me<br />
was simple: Community Outreach.<br />
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The key component of community<br />
outreach is service. In the business<br />
community, many people start the day<br />
thinking about how they can perform their<br />
job better in order to serve either their<br />
employer or a client, while focusing on<br />
personal gain. I’m not disparaging this type<br />
of self service. However, I believe that it is<br />
short sighted – a missed opportunity for<br />
them, their company, and the community<br />
they work in. True service happens when<br />
you stop focusing inward, and start focusing<br />
outward. In other words, it’s about putting<br />
those around you before yourself. When you<br />
are able to do that with honest intentions and<br />
true passion, you will find that the breadth<br />
of people in your community you can reach<br />
and influence will greatly expand.<br />
As I evaluated how to focus my service<br />
efforts outward, not only to help the<br />
community in which I worked, but also to<br />
share the technology industry I am passionate<br />
about and support the message, mission and<br />
vision of the company I work for, I discovered<br />
one of the strongest nonprofit organizations<br />
in the Charlotte community: Apparo.<br />
ABOUT APPARO<br />
Apparo helps local nonprofits leverage<br />
technology to create positive social change<br />
in the Charlotte community. Philanthropy<br />
is woven into Charlotte’s corporate fabric,<br />
with employees who are eager to support a<br />
cause and impact the community using their<br />
skills. Nonprofits are devoted and purposedriven<br />
but often lack the resources to reach<br />
more people in need. Connecting nonprofits<br />
to corporate volunteers gives them access to<br />
IT education and training, and affordable<br />
IT solutions that they need to effectively<br />
achieve their missions.<br />
Since its inception in 2003 (then known<br />
as Npower Charlotte Region), Apparo<br />
has supported over 350 nonprofits in our<br />
community, provided over $7.8 million<br />
in technology solutions and $1.8 million<br />
in technology sponsorships. In the past<br />
12 months they have donated over 6,600<br />
hours in advice and guidance, and provided<br />
4,050 hours of volunteer service to over 110<br />
nonprofit agencies. Below are two brief case<br />
studies of nonprofits Apparo has helped<br />
support.<br />
DataChambers<br />
specializes in information<br />
technology services<br />
tailor-made to meet your<br />
needs – including cloud,<br />
data center co-location,<br />
and enterprise<br />
management solutions for<br />
businesses and<br />
organizations of all sizes.<br />
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COMMUNITY / NEW PRIORITIES NEW OPPORTUNITIES<br />
ABOVE RIGHT: Ben Gelnett, Scott Grant, Terra Boddy, and Charles Lang from Data Chambers volunteer at a Charlotte soup<br />
kitchen (top); Data Chambers team members Brian Cesca, Terra Boddy, Ben Gelnett, Lawrence Boening and Scott Grant<br />
compete in the Big Brothers Big Sisters, Bowl for Kids Sake event (bottom).<br />
When you can<br />
serve your<br />
community with<br />
honest intentions<br />
and true passion,<br />
the breadth<br />
of people you<br />
can reach and<br />
influence will<br />
greatly expand.<br />
APPARO CASE STUDY:<br />
OMITT & DUKE ENERGY<br />
OMITT Trade School needed a<br />
partner to provide hardware, software,<br />
and configuration services for a computer<br />
training lab at the OMITT facility. OMITT<br />
is a non-profit in the greater Charlotte,<br />
NC area that provides skilled based<br />
training programs with certification<br />
such as HVAC, Fork-Lift operation, and<br />
electrical. Their typical student is the<br />
unemployed, underemployed and the<br />
previously incarcerated, who want to work,<br />
but are not trained for the work available.<br />
OMITT addresses core issues including<br />
personal accountability, communication<br />
skills, teamwork, motivation, passion in the<br />
workplace, and a vision for the future.<br />
OMITT’s vision was to create a<br />
computer literacy classroom for training as<br />
well as GED testing/ certification. To make<br />
this vision a reality required hardware for<br />
the eventual students as well as hardware<br />
and software for the four staff members to<br />
replace their then eight-year old computers.<br />
Finally, the technical skills to configure<br />
services for the computer training lab onsite<br />
at the OMITT facility would need to be<br />
found.<br />
Duke Energy’s technology department<br />
is passionate about technology and enabling<br />
efficiency through technology. Their staff<br />
includes skilled professionals with vast IT<br />
and professional skills to make this happen,<br />
but they had no way to know that the need<br />
was there. This is where Apparo stepped<br />
in. Apparo has relationships with both the<br />
nonprofits and corporations throughout<br />
the greater Charlotte area. Apparo made the<br />
introductions and facilitated the delivery of<br />
the new classroom for OMITT.<br />
The resulting partnership helped<br />
OMITT in many ways, as well as their<br />
students. The new classroom allowed<br />
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OMITT to reach new students who needed<br />
access to technology in order to initiate and<br />
complete online certifications. It helped<br />
the teaching staff be able to better track the<br />
results, and collaborate together to deliver<br />
the needed coursework more swiftly and<br />
effectively. The improved tools for OMITT’s<br />
staff have allowed them to focus more easily<br />
on their jobs and improving the lives of<br />
those they serve. OMITT Trade School<br />
can now increase their fundraising, expand<br />
the reach of their programs, deliver their<br />
programs more efficiently and share their<br />
services more broadly.<br />
APPARO CASE STUDY:<br />
CRISIS ASSISTANCE<br />
MINISTRY & STALWART<br />
Crisis Assistance Ministry (CAM)<br />
provides assistance and advocacy for people<br />
in financial crisis, helping them move<br />
toward self-sufficiency. CAM meets the<br />
needs of some of Charlotte’s most vulnerable<br />
citizens at the very moment of potential<br />
homelessness or seriously destabilizing<br />
crisis. Crisis Assistance Ministry was in<br />
need of a security assessment plan for their<br />
business technology as well as for those<br />
processes that were currently manual in<br />
nature. Client’s personal information was<br />
obtained via paper-based forms and then<br />
entered into CAM systems. Crisis Assistance<br />
Ministries needed help with defining their<br />
data security risks and creating a plan/<br />
roadmap to implement better security<br />
measures for both manual and network<br />
processes.<br />
Again, CAM had no idea how to find<br />
the assistance it needed. Apparo reached out<br />
to one of its corporate partners, Stalwart,<br />
a company that provides IT security,<br />
managed services, cloud solutions and<br />
secure IT architectures to their customers.<br />
Stalwart jumped at the chance to engage<br />
its employees in this type of meaningful<br />
community engagement. They studied<br />
CAM and worked to create a list of 53 items<br />
for improvement. As of February 2017,<br />
about half of those 53 have been improved<br />
and made secure. The rest are targeted<br />
for completion and some being put into<br />
CAM’s budget for the next fiscal year. This<br />
security project allowed Crisis Assistance<br />
Ministries to uphold their goal of treating<br />
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COMMUNITY / NEW PRIORITIES NEW OPPORTUNITIES<br />
Since its inception in<br />
2003 (then known as<br />
Npower Charlotte Region),<br />
Apparo has supported<br />
over 350 nonprofits in<br />
our community, provided<br />
over $7.8 million in<br />
technology solutions and<br />
$1.8 million in technology<br />
sponsorships.<br />
their customers with dignity by ensuring<br />
their data was secure. In addition, several<br />
funding sources required a certain level of<br />
data security that this project has helped<br />
Crisis Assistance Ministry to achieve. As<br />
you can see, Apparo is directly affecting<br />
how nonprofits can more efficiently and<br />
effectively support their mission statement<br />
through investment in technology.<br />
When a staff has the empowerment<br />
of an employer to focus on community<br />
engagements, it connects the goals of the<br />
company to the goals of its employees<br />
which connects them to the community<br />
they work in. And it creates a powerful<br />
force for positive change. Apparo has<br />
not only allowed me to fulfill my passion<br />
– around the nonprofit community<br />
and technology – it has also led me to<br />
create relationships with IT leaders in<br />
the Charlotte community who have likeminded<br />
passions for community outreach.<br />
By putting my efforts into understanding<br />
how the community I work in can be better<br />
served through volunteer work, I can now<br />
show my company the benefits through<br />
possible business relationships as well. In<br />
my opinion it’s all about the priority and<br />
the passion.<br />
Those of us who have good jobs that<br />
support ourselves and our families also<br />
must understand that there are individuals<br />
and families in our own backyards that are<br />
much less fortunate. If we can spend time<br />
making their lives better, it will make the<br />
community we live and work in a much<br />
better place. Focus outward first and the<br />
help you give to those around you, both<br />
personally and professionally, will make<br />
your life that much richer. n<br />
BELOW (clockwise from upper left): Data Chambers team members April Fulcher, EJ Schwartz, and Frank DeStasio take part<br />
in The American Heart Association’s annual Heart and Stroke Walk; Brian Cesca stands outside DataChambers data center<br />
with Charlotte Mecklenburg School teachers as they continue their STEM education; OMITT, a non-profit trade school in the<br />
greater Charlotte, NC area that provides skilled based training programs with certification such as HVAC, Fork-Lift operation,<br />
and electrical; Crisis Assistance Ministry (CAM) provides assistance and advocacy for some of Charlotte’s most vulnerable<br />
citizens at the very moment of potential homelessness or seriously destabilizing crisis.<br />
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DESTINATIONS<br />
Welcome to Atlanta!<br />
Exciting, charming, historic, and Ultimate Air Shuttle’s newest destination. by Max West<br />
I REMEMBER WELL THE FIRST TIME<br />
I visited Atlanta. The exact date was August<br />
1st, 1978. The Braves had just snapped Pete<br />
Rose’s forty-four game hitting streak the<br />
night before. I had watched the game from<br />
my apartment on Richland Avenue in Athens<br />
Ohio and was pretty distraught over the<br />
streak ending. My roommate and I made a<br />
spur-of-the-moment decision to jump in my<br />
truck and head to Atlanta to see Pete begin<br />
a new streak. It was total lunacy. We left late<br />
at night, got lost a few times, then stopped<br />
at every Howard Johnson’s restaurant we<br />
passed and ordered fried clams. We arrived<br />
at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium with time<br />
to spare and watched Pete get four hits. We<br />
skipped the fried clams on the way back to<br />
Athens and all in all, it was less than a 24-hour<br />
round trip.<br />
If this were today, I’d have made a week<br />
out of it because Atlanta has a lot to offer. It<br />
should. It’s a big city and boasts the ninth<br />
largest metropolitan area in the United<br />
States, with over 5.7 million residents. For<br />
comparison, Greater Cincinnati has 2.1<br />
million people. Here are some of the things<br />
you can do during a visit. This is by no<br />
means intended to be a complete list as that<br />
would take this entire issue of Ultimate Air<br />
Magazine... and then some.<br />
IF YOU WANT TO GET A FEEL FOR<br />
Atlanta, start with a long walk on Peachtree<br />
Street. You will get a feel for the pulse of<br />
Atlanta. You will find upscale shopping in the<br />
Buckhead District and fine watering holes<br />
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DESTINATIONS / ATLANTA<br />
ABOVE: (clockwise from top left) Peachtree Street in Downtown Atlanta; Upscale shopping in the Buckhead District; The Georgia Aquarium, the largest<br />
aquarium in the Western Hemisphere; The High Museum of Art. BELOW: World famous, Fox Theatre on Peachtree street was built by the Atlanta<br />
Shriner’s Organization and opened on Christmas Day 1928 with the premier of Steamboat Willie, Walt Disney’s first cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse.<br />
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and entertainment venues along the street’s<br />
long course. It is also a center for the Arts<br />
and is home to the Woodruff Arts Center, the<br />
High Museum of Art, The Atlanta Symphony,<br />
and the Alliance Theatre. Margaret Mitchell,<br />
author of Gone with the Wind, lived in a<br />
boarding house on Peachtree Street while<br />
writing her masterpiece. The book was<br />
published in 1936 and released as the film<br />
classic in 1939, debuting on Peachtree Street<br />
at Lowe’s Theatre. Tragically, Ms. Mitchell<br />
died in 1949 when she was crossing Peachtree<br />
Street, killed by a speeding driver.<br />
While exploring Peachtree Street, make<br />
sure you visit the renowned Fox Theatre.<br />
World famous, the theatre was built by the<br />
Atlanta Shriner’s Organization. It was leased<br />
to movie mogul William Fox and opened<br />
on Christmas Day 1928 with the premier<br />
of Steamboat Willie, Walt Disney’s first<br />
cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse. The Great<br />
Depression brought tough times and the<br />
Fox was sold at auction for just $75,000, a<br />
fraction of the $3,000,000 it had cost to build.<br />
It stumbled along over the years, ultimately<br />
failing like many big theatres nationwide. The<br />
wrecking ball was imminent, but the citizenry<br />
of Atlanta came to the rescue, raising the<br />
$3,000,000 needed to save and renovate the<br />
Fox. It reopened in 1975 and today thrives,<br />
hosting over two-hundred fifty events a year.<br />
ATLANTA IS ALSO FAMED FOR ITS<br />
Georgia Aquarium, located on Baker Street.<br />
You may have been to Aquariums before<br />
but this one is unique. Sure, there are lots of<br />
exhibits and thousands of fish to see. But here<br />
is where it gets a little different. A lot different.<br />
Start with their sleep-over program. Bring<br />
your sleeping bag and spend the night. This<br />
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The Aquarium also boasts several interactive<br />
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If you are a sports fan, Atlanta boasts professional teams in all<br />
three major sports: the Braves (baseball), the Hawks (basketball), and<br />
the Falcons (football). If you visit, there’s a good chance that one of<br />
them will be playing while you are there. Since 2014, Atlanta has also<br />
been the home of The College Football Hall of Fame and Museum. A<br />
94,000 square foot facility, the Hall pays homage to stars of the college<br />
game. There are 987 players inducted in the Hall with 306 schools<br />
represented. This might seem like a huge number of inductees, but<br />
since the first college football game was played on November 6, 1869<br />
between the New Jersey Tigers, now Princeton, and the Rutgers<br />
Queensmen, there have been over five million student athletes to suit<br />
up. Just .0002% have earned admission into the Hall of Fame.<br />
Tribute is also made to over 200 coaches that have helped make<br />
the game great and there are numerous displays and presentations<br />
which let you relive memories of your favorite coaches, players, and<br />
TOP LEFT: The lobby of the College Football Hall of Fame and Museum<br />
features a three-story high display of helmets from all 774 colleges and<br />
universities that field football teams. BOTTOM LEFT: The Coca-Cola<br />
Fans’ Game Day gallery in the College Football Hall of Fame and Museum<br />
includes various exhibits and interactive displays dedicated to tailgating,<br />
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the legends that preceded them. An interesting display is the threestory<br />
high helmet display. There are 774 colleges and universities that<br />
field football teams and the wall displays a helmet for each school. And<br />
in case you are wondering who won that first game, Rutgers prevailed<br />
by a score of 6 to 4.<br />
FOR THE PROFESSIONAL HORTICULTURIST OR THE<br />
amateur gardener, no visit to Atlanta would be complete without<br />
spending a day at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. This is a beautiful,<br />
30 acre exhibition whose mission is to “develop and maintain plant<br />
collections for the purpose of display, education, conservation,<br />
research, and enjoyment.” There are three main areas. The indoor<br />
Fuqua Orchid Center features the High Elevation House, a display of<br />
mountain orchids and diverse plant life as found in the Cloud Forest of<br />
the Peruvian Andes. Visitors love the man-made waterfall, emblematic<br />
of rushing waters that you will find in the Andes highlands.<br />
A second indoor attraction is the Fuqua Conservatory. It features<br />
several distinct climatic regions. The Tropical Region reenacts the<br />
10% of the earth closest to the equator where over 50% of all plant<br />
and animal species are found. The Desert Region displays a variety of<br />
succulents native to the island of Madagascar and southern Africa. The<br />
Fuqua Orchid Center and the Conservatory are named after Dorothy<br />
Chapman Fuqua, a prominent Atlanta philanthropist and lifelong<br />
friend of nature. The third area is the Outdoor Collection, home to<br />
a variety of gardens featuring roses, edible vegetables, hydrangeas,<br />
palms, water plants, summer bulbs, and the incredible Japanese<br />
Garden. The Dalai Lama met with Mrs. Fuqua at the Japanese Garden<br />
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ABOVE: The Atlanta Botanical Garden features dozens of permanent<br />
pieces of art, including sculptures and water features. Fritz Paul Zimmer<br />
created this work to immortalize a small Deer he befriended in his native<br />
Germany. The elusive figure of cast bronze resides in the Southern<br />
Seasons Garden. It is on extended loan from the High Museum of Art.<br />
RIGHT: Centennial Olympic Park is an urban oasis offering an abundance<br />
of activities including splashing around in the Fountain of Rings. The park<br />
was built by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games as part of the<br />
infrastructure improvements for the 1996 Summer Olympics.<br />
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and shared his admiration and appreciation<br />
of Mrs. Fuqua’s commitment to botanic<br />
conservation.<br />
IF YOU DON’T MIND A SHORT DRIVE,<br />
visit Stone Mountain Park in DeKalb County,<br />
just east of Atlanta. It features the largest basrelief<br />
sculpture in the world. Carved into the<br />
side of the mountain are effigies of southern<br />
Civil War legends Jefferson David, Robert E.<br />
Lee, and Stonewall Jackson. The sculpture<br />
measures 90 x 190 feet and is recessed 42<br />
feet into the mountain, approximately 400<br />
feet up from the base of the rock. There<br />
is a misconception that Stone Mountain<br />
is a solid granite rock, when it is actually<br />
igneous in origin and is made up mostly of<br />
quartz menzonite. It rises 825 feet above the<br />
surrounding area and was formed by magma<br />
boiling up miles below the surface eons ago.<br />
There is some controversy about the<br />
sculpture being a monument to those that<br />
attempted to secede from the Union, but<br />
there can be no doubt that it is an amazing<br />
work of art. The park also includes 15 miles of<br />
hiking trails and the most popular is the onemile<br />
trail leading to the top of the mountain.<br />
Don’t worry though. It does not involve<br />
scaling the mountain but is rather a gradual<br />
climb up the shallowest slope. The way down<br />
is much quicker and far easier, as long as you<br />
are not squeamish about heights. This way is<br />
via the Swiss-built Skyride, an enclosed cable<br />
gondola that swings you out blindly over the<br />
face of the cliff before slowly returning you to<br />
solid ground over 800 feet below.<br />
ABOVE: Stone Mountain Park in DeKalb County, just east of Atlanta features the largest bas-relief<br />
sculpture in the world (top); The Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum and Library includes interactive<br />
exhibits (middle) and an exact replica of the Oval Office (bottom).<br />
ATLANTA PAYS TRIBUTE TO THEIR<br />
two most famous sons, Dr. Martin Luther<br />
King Jr. and President Jimmy Carter. The<br />
Martin Luther King Jr. Historical Site features<br />
a tour of key locations in the great civil rights<br />
leader’s life. Included will be his birth home<br />
and the Ebenezer Baptist Church where<br />
he stood beside his father as minister. The<br />
church was also the site of Dr. King’s funeral<br />
after he was assassinated in 1968. The tour<br />
includes a stop at the World Peace Rose<br />
Garden and a visit to the Behold Monument,<br />
a sculpture located outside Ebenezer Church<br />
that commemorates the principles, goals, and<br />
moral issues that guided Dr. King’s life.<br />
The Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum<br />
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ABOVE: Martin Luther King Jr. birthplace (top left); The Martin Luther King Jr. Historical Site (bottom left); Behold Monument commemorating the<br />
principles, goals, and moral issues that guided Dr. King’s life (right). BELOW: The World of Coca-Cola museum, located in downtown Atlanta near<br />
Centennial Olympic Park showcases the history of The Coca-Cola Company including vintage Coca-Cola vending machines and memorabilia.<br />
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memorabilia from President Carter’s term in<br />
office of 1976-1981. Perhaps the most unique<br />
item on display is a replica of the Crown of St.<br />
Stephen, or the “Holy Crown of Hungary”. At<br />
the end of World War Two, the royal crown<br />
was transferred by Hungary to the U.S. Army<br />
to keep it from falling into the hands of the<br />
approaching Soviet army. It remained in<br />
protective custody here in the United States<br />
at the U.S. Gold Depository at Fort Knox<br />
Kentucky until 1978 when President Carter<br />
returned it to its home country. Hungary<br />
presented a replica to President Carter in<br />
1998 and it is on permanent display at the<br />
Carter Museum, a reminder of Hungarian<br />
appreciation and respect.<br />
IF YOU WANT A WHIMSICAL ACTIVITY,<br />
check out The World of Coca-Cola. You can<br />
sample a myriad of different ‘experimental’<br />
tastes, check out a thousand historical<br />
artifacts pertaining to Coca-Cola, see the<br />
actual bottling process, and view a short film<br />
on the history of the most famous soft drink<br />
on earth. You can even enter the vault where<br />
the world’s best kept secret is kept—the topsecret<br />
recipe that has been hidden away for<br />
over 100 years. The World of Coca-Cola is<br />
located at Pemberton Place, named after<br />
the inventor of Coca-Cola, and is situated<br />
directly across from Centennial Olympic<br />
Park. The park is also the home of the Georgia<br />
Aquarium. Make a day of it and go to the<br />
aquarium and then help teach the world to<br />
sing and enjoy a Coke.<br />
IS THAT EVERYTHING TO DO WHEN<br />
you visit Atlanta? Of course not. I haven’t<br />
even mentioned the Underground Atlanta<br />
Shopping District, CNN studios, the<br />
Fernbank Museum of Natural History, the<br />
Atlanta History Center, Oakland Cemetery,<br />
or the Center for Civil and Human Rights.<br />
There is a museum for Puppetry Arts, a<br />
Walking Dead Big Zombie tour, and a<br />
visit to the Swan House, a testament to the<br />
lifestyle of the southern rich and famous<br />
from the 1930’s. And a hundred other things<br />
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Those of us who live in the Midwest enjoy<br />
four distinct seasons. Spring! Summer!<br />
Fall! Winter! Each season has its own<br />
personality and each has its good points<br />
and not so good points. While there are<br />
definite advantages to living where it’s<br />
sunny and warm all year long, I still enjoy<br />
the change of pace each season brings –<br />
especially spring.<br />
WINTER: Unless you own a ski business<br />
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winter in the Midwest. It’s dark, dreary,<br />
cold, and waaaaaaaaaaaay too long. And I<br />
(like most sane adults) hate the snow – even<br />
though it looks pretty when you’re looking<br />
at it from inside your house. The best part<br />
of winter is going to the Caribbean where<br />
it’s warm and sunny all year long.<br />
SUMMER: In the Midwest, summer<br />
is the time of the year for F-U-N: vacations,<br />
water parks, swimming pools, golf,<br />
baseball, cookouts, more water, outdoor<br />
concerts, summer festivals, and on and on.<br />
FALL: The leaves changing in autumn are<br />
pretty and something people in other parts<br />
of the world don’t get to enjoy. The days<br />
getting cooler makes for a nice break from<br />
the often unrelenting heat and humidity of<br />
summer. And if you love sports as much as<br />
I do, football season starts and basketball<br />
and hockey are right around the corner.<br />
SPRING: As you can probably tell from<br />
the title of this article, as far as I’m concerned<br />
spring is the BEST. After a long<br />
dreary winter flowers are in bloom, trees<br />
start to blossom, the golf courses get busy,<br />
baseball season starts, and its time for the<br />
Triple Crown!<br />
About the only thing to hate in the<br />
spring is spring cleaning, taking care of the<br />
yard and figuring out how to get the cover<br />
off the pool with all that water on it.<br />
ABOVE: The historic Findley Market Opening Day Parade, part of the Opening Day festivities in Cincinnati.<br />
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Tuesday, May 16th<br />
Wednesday, May 17th<br />
Thursday, May 18th<br />
Reds at Cleveland Indians<br />
Wednesday, May 24th<br />
Thursday, May 25th<br />
Reds at New York Yankees<br />
Tuesday, July 25th<br />
Wednesday, July 26th<br />
Reds at Chicago Cubs<br />
Monday, August 14th<br />
Tuesday, August 15th<br />
Wednesday, August 16th<br />
Thursday, August 17th<br />
Reds at Atlanta Braves<br />
Friday, August 18th<br />
Saturday, August 19th<br />
Sunday, August 20th<br />
Reds at New York Mets<br />
Thursday, September 7th<br />
Friday, September 8th<br />
Saturday, September 9th<br />
Sunday, September 10th<br />
Reds at Chicago Cubs<br />
Friday, September 29th<br />
Saturday, September 30th<br />
Sunday, October 1st<br />
OPENING DAY<br />
Technically the 2017 Major League<br />
Baseball season starts on Sunday, April 2.<br />
There will be three games that day: the 2016<br />
World Series champion Chicago Cubs will<br />
take on the Cardinals (The Cincinnati Reds’<br />
arch rivals) in St. Louis, the San Francisco<br />
Giants visit the Arizona Diamondbacks,<br />
and the New York Yankees will open against<br />
the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field. But<br />
officially Opening Day is on the following<br />
Monday, April 3, with nine division matchups<br />
included on a 13-game slate.<br />
For Reds fans like me baseball season<br />
REALLY kicks off at noon on Opening Day<br />
with the start of the annual Findlay Market<br />
Opening Day Parade. Each spring since 1920<br />
this parade has made its way from Findlay<br />
Market in Over-the-Rhine through the<br />
streets of downtown Cincinnati. Hundreds of<br />
people take the day off work or school to line<br />
the streets and watch the parade pass by. And<br />
if you don’t have a ticket to the big game, you<br />
can watch it on a giant TV screen on Fountain<br />
Square with a few thousand other fans. This<br />
year the Reds will be taking on the Philadelphia<br />
Phillies on Opening Day at Cincinnati’s<br />
Great American Ballpark at 4:10 PM.<br />
THE TRIPLE CROWN<br />
The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred<br />
Racing (or simply The Triple Crown), includes<br />
three races for three-year-old Thoroughbred<br />
horses. Winning all three of these<br />
Thoroughbred horse races is considered the<br />
greatest accomplishment in Thoroughbred<br />
racing. The first (and in my humble opinion<br />
the greatest) race is the Kentucky Derby,<br />
run over the 1-1⁄4 mile (2.0 km) track at<br />
Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. It is<br />
the longest continually held sporting event in<br />
America, and it is one of the most prestigious<br />
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horse races in the world. 20 horses compete<br />
in the Kentucky Derby, which is a larger field<br />
size than most horse races; where on average<br />
8 horses race against one another. Those 20<br />
horses must have first competed in a series<br />
of 35 races that take place at tracks across the<br />
country and the world. Points are awarded to<br />
the top 4 horses that finish in each of those<br />
35 races, and the 20 horses with the most<br />
points earn a spot in the Kentucky Derby. The<br />
Kentucky Derby winning purse is $2 million.<br />
The second race in the Triple Crown is<br />
the Preakness Stakes, run over the 1-3⁄16 mile<br />
track at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore,<br />
Maryland. The third and final race is the<br />
Belmont Stakes, run over the 1-1⁄2 mile dirt<br />
track, the longest in U.S. thoroughbred racing,<br />
at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York,<br />
just east of the New York City borough of<br />
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THE TRIPLE CROWN RACES<br />
Race: Kentucky Derby<br />
Date: Saturday, May 6th<br />
Length: 1-1/4 miles<br />
Purse: $2,000.000.00<br />
Race: The Preakness<br />
Date: Saturday, May 20th<br />
Length: 1-3/16 miles<br />
Purse: $1,500.000.00<br />
Race: Belmont Stakes:<br />
Date: Saturday, June 10th<br />
Length: 1-1/2 miles<br />
Purse: $1,500.000.00<br />
TRIPLE CROWN WINNERS<br />
1919 Sir Barton<br />
1930 Gallant Fox<br />
1935 Omaha<br />
1937 War Admiral<br />
1941 Whirlaway<br />
1943 Count Fleet<br />
1946 Assault<br />
1948 Citation<br />
1973 Secretariat<br />
1977 Seattle Slew<br />
1978 Affirmed<br />
2015 American Pharoah<br />
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BUSINESS<br />
More Than A Company<br />
Stewart Iron Works is part of the American Experience. by Rick Pawlak<br />
WHILE TODAY’S PRODUCTION<br />
environment is dominated by multiaxis<br />
machines, welding robots, and lean<br />
manufacturing concepts, there is a 155-yearold<br />
company in Covington, Kentucky that<br />
still produces some of the finest ornamental<br />
iron structures in the nation by hand, a<br />
proud and timeless tradition passed down<br />
from generations of German-American<br />
craftsman.<br />
Stewart Iron Works’ ornamental metal<br />
artistry can be found on some of the<br />
most iconic structures in North America,<br />
including The White House, U.S. House of<br />
Representatives, the gates of the Panama<br />
Canal, New York’s Central Park, the Alaskan<br />
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The history behind the company is<br />
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Experience. Richard (R.C.) Stewart Sr., a<br />
skilled blacksmith, founded Stewart Iron<br />
Works in Covington – then a bustling<br />
industrial city just across the Ohio River<br />
from Cincinnati – in 1862 with the intent of<br />
producing iron fences. By 1886, the company<br />
had grown to more than 150 employees who<br />
were producing ornamental iron fences and<br />
structures throughout the United States.<br />
The second generation – Wallace and<br />
Robert Stewart – re-joined the family<br />
business near the turn of the century after<br />
losing their own ornamental iron company<br />
in a horrific fire in Wichita, Kansas. By<br />
1900, Stewart was producing several types of<br />
ornamental iron structures including fences,<br />
gates, reservoir vases, lamps, grills, jails,<br />
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and more.<br />
The company’s product and skills were<br />
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AFTER WORLD WAR I, the domestic market<br />
exploded for residential fencing, estate gates,<br />
and high end interior ornamental railing<br />
products. As a result, the 1920s became the<br />
golden age for Stewart Iron works, which<br />
by then employed more than 3,000 workers.<br />
During this time, Stewart began selling<br />
ornamental iron fencing through the Sears<br />
& Roebuck Catalog, a move that helped push<br />
distribution and production to record levels.<br />
When the Great Depression hit, demand<br />
plummeted and the Stewart family diversified<br />
by focusing on its jail division, a booming<br />
industry during the years of gangsters and<br />
prohibition. Stewart jail cells housed some<br />
of the most infamous criminals including,<br />
Al Capone, James “Whitey” Bulger, Mickey<br />
Cohen, George “Machine Gun” Kelly, David<br />
Berkowitz, and James Earl Ray. Stewart<br />
Iron Works jail cells and locking gates can<br />
be found in some of the country’s most<br />
notorious prisons, including Alcatraz, Sing<br />
Sing, and Leavenworth. Ironically, Stewart<br />
also began manufacturing the housings of<br />
Tommy Guns during this era.<br />
When World War II began, Stewart<br />
contributed to the U.S. war effort by<br />
manufacturing tank armor and portable<br />
Baily bridges. Even though the Stewart<br />
family’s roots are traced to Scotland,<br />
an overwhelming majority of its skilled<br />
tradesman were first generation German-<br />
Americans – many of whom still spoke<br />
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German as their first language. U.S.<br />
regulations regarding German-American<br />
citizens made it difficult for Stewart to<br />
receive government contracts and subsidies<br />
during the war. As a result, the loss of<br />
income left Stewart unable to invest in new<br />
equipment for mass production, leading to a<br />
severe decline in fence sales during and after<br />
the war.<br />
THROUGHOUT THE POST-WAR ERA<br />
into the 1980s, Stewart continued to focus<br />
on the jail and security industry, while<br />
still maintaining a presence in high-end<br />
ornamental iron fencing and structures.<br />
The prosperity of the 1990s brought a<br />
renewed sense of appreciation for traditional<br />
craftsmanship and design. Ornamental Iron<br />
became popular again and the liabilities of<br />
hand forging and the missed opportunities<br />
in mass manufacturing had become Stewart’s<br />
greatest asset.<br />
In 2005, Stewart Iron Works was<br />
purchased by a group of investors eager to<br />
showcase this traditional craftsmanship with<br />
a renewed sense of purpose. “We consider<br />
While the Stewart family<br />
focused on its jail division during the era<br />
of gangsters and prohibition, at the same time they<br />
also began manufacturing the housings of Tommy Guns.<br />
ourselves lucky to be associated with the<br />
Stewart name and consider ourselves<br />
caretakers of the tradition” said David<br />
Heidrich, a company board member and<br />
investor.<br />
Under new leadership, stewart’s expertise<br />
grew beyond ornamental iron to also include<br />
the fusing of iron, steel, glass, crystal and<br />
other materials together. Stewart’s work<br />
can be found on some of the more notable<br />
modern structures around the world such as<br />
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St. Regis Hotel in Atlanta, and the Scioto Mile<br />
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BUSINESS / STEWART IRON WORKS<br />
The 1990s brought a renewed sense of<br />
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Iron Work’s greatest assets.<br />
TODAY, STEWART IS CONSULTED by the world’s leading<br />
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ideas a reality. Stewart combines expertise from design, structural<br />
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custom installation to create these artistic masterpieces. “It takes<br />
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the part of our customers to produce these one-of-a-kind structures.”<br />
Today, people all over the country find the seminal Stewart<br />
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park benches, and gates dating back to the late 19th and early 20th<br />
centuries. It is a badge that has come to represent more than a<br />
company, but a example of the innovation, design, perseverance and<br />
spirit of America’ industrial age.<br />
“I still get excited about making fences and structures that<br />
are beyond beautiful,” said company President Dean Vukovic.<br />
“Structures that will still be standing in the year 2100 and beyond. It<br />
is humbling to think that my daughter’s grandchildren will someday<br />
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Meet Jessye Wojtusik, the<br />
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ultrasound helped bring us Fiona<br />
The Story Behind Fiona The Hippo’s Risky Birth<br />
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SIX WEEKS PRIOR TO BIBI’S DUE<br />
DATE, caretakers at the Cincinnati Zoo<br />
and Botanical Gardens received an<br />
alarming phone call – the Nile hippo had<br />
gone into labor. Hippos often give birth<br />
in the water, so the zoo’s Conservation<br />
and Research of Endangered Wildlife<br />
post-doctoral researcher Jessye<br />
Wojtusik said she arrived to perform an<br />
ultrasound on Bibi to ensure the baby<br />
was still safely in the womb.<br />
“I found the baby, but the problem<br />
was she had moved so far up I couldn’t<br />
locate any of her organs or spine, so I<br />
couldn’t tell what position she was in,”<br />
Wojtusik said. “Everybody was very<br />
nervous because she was very early.”<br />
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Bibi’s, of course – was adorable baby<br />
Fiona born later that day.<br />
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Photo by the Cincinnati Zoo.<br />
Since her birth Jan. 24, Fiona has<br />
made steady progress until recently<br />
running into some trouble teething,<br />
requiring her to receive fluids and return<br />
to a feeding tube. A Vascular Access<br />
Team (VAT) was brought in late last week<br />
to help with dehydration. “The vet staff<br />
and the keeper staff are taking really<br />
good care of her,” Wojtusik said. “They’re<br />
so dedicated.”<br />
Hailing from farm country, Wojtusik<br />
said she never imagined one day<br />
her experience with livestock would<br />
land her squarely on the hippo care<br />
team. In addition to lending a hand<br />
to the 24-hour care team, Wojtusik<br />
can officially claim bragging rights for<br />
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baby hippo; images of Fiona while still<br />
in the womb. Wojtusik is the first known<br />
person to perform the procedure on<br />
the species.<br />
“They’ve done it on pygmy hippos,<br />
but they’re much smaller so I think<br />
it’s less tissue to get through with the<br />
ultrasound,” she said. “In the beginning,<br />
we were struggling a lot. Their skin is just<br />
so thick and there’s just a lot to them.”<br />
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As Nile hippos have a reputation<br />
for being difficult to train, she said<br />
others may have been reluctant to<br />
attempt the procedure. She said Bibi<br />
was extremely cooperative, learning<br />
how to move into an enclosed chute,<br />
lean in and lift her leg on command<br />
in order for Wojtusik to slide the<br />
ultrasound wand across the hippo’s<br />
belly. The actual training process for<br />
the 3,200-pound hippo progressed<br />
smoothly, Wojtusik said, with the key<br />
being Bibi’s love of food.<br />
“So every time she does something<br />
right or stays still, the keepers are<br />
feeding her apples or beet pulp or<br />
lettuce – so there’s constant positive<br />
reinforcement going on,” she said.<br />
Even though it took a few months<br />
to finally see the baby through Bibi’s<br />
thick tissue, Wojtusik said persistence<br />
paid off. At first she said they only<br />
saw dark shapes, which later became<br />
more clearly defined as the baby grew.<br />
As she was the first to record the<br />
process on Nile hippos, she said every<br />
step was a learning curve in terms of<br />
how visible the baby should be.<br />
“Everybody kept saying, ‘Why can’t<br />
you see it?’ And when we could start to<br />
see it, everyone wanted to know what<br />
sex it was,” she said. “At first I could<br />
only see the ribs and the spine and that<br />
was exciting – and then when I could<br />
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maybe the best day ever.”<br />
Wojtusik admits it’s more than<br />
serendipity that landed her on Team<br />
Fiona. Since childhood, the CREW<br />
researcher said hippos have always been<br />
her favorite animal. After mentioning her<br />
desire to work with the zoo’s new hippo<br />
pair, CREW Director Terri Roth sent her<br />
to begin ultrasounds on the potentially<br />
pregnant Bibi. “Terri just knew I had a<br />
love for them and she figured out a way<br />
I could get involved and it just kind of<br />
evolved from there,” she said.<br />
As Wojtusik had limited experience<br />
working with ultrasound, CREW<br />
assigned her to several other projects<br />
LEFT: Nurses from Children’s Hospital<br />
Vascular Access Team (VAT) administer<br />
fluids to Fiona. Photo by Cincinnati Zoo.<br />
BELOW: CREW researcher Jessye<br />
Wojtusik hopes to help unravel the<br />
mystery behind iron overload disorder in<br />
rhinos. Photo by Cincinnati Zoo.<br />
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of Fiona while still in<br />
the womb. Wojtusik<br />
is the first known<br />
person to perform<br />
the procedure on the<br />
species.<br />
to get more familiar with imaging.<br />
Most infamously, Wojtusik performed<br />
ultrasounds on Moe the sloth, checking<br />
for pregnancy. It was during those<br />
procedures Wojtusik discovered Moe<br />
could never get pregnant because she<br />
was actually a he, solving the confusing<br />
case of Moe. “I like to call it hazing,” she<br />
said with a grin. “They set me up.”<br />
Before Team Fiona, Wojtusik joined<br />
CREW to help unlock the mystery<br />
behind iron overload disorder in rhinos.<br />
She explained for reasons yet unknown,<br />
rhinos tend to build up excess iron in their<br />
bloodstream, eventually leading to organ<br />
failure. The condition claimed the lives of<br />
two Sumatran rhinos Emi and Suci at the<br />
Cincinnati Zoo as well as a number of<br />
black rhinos under professional care at<br />
zoos and other facilities.<br />
“It could be diet, it could be genetics,<br />
it could be so many different things,”<br />
she said. “We’re really trying to narrow<br />
in on it to find out how this disease<br />
progresses, what’s causing it and how<br />
do we stop it.”<br />
As part of her work with CREW,<br />
Wojtusik also assists other institutions<br />
in rhino reproduction, traveling to collect<br />
semen samples from males as well as<br />
helping to assess the viability of mating<br />
pairs. She explained sometimes zoos<br />
wait too long to attempt to breed rhinos,<br />
creating infertility issues for females.<br />
That’s not the case for the Cincinnati<br />
Zoo’s black rhino pair, she said, as she’s<br />
performing ultrasounds on pregnant<br />
female Seyia. The baby is due in July.<br />
“The thing with rhinos is their skin<br />
is super thick so you can only see so<br />
deep,” she said. “You do see something<br />
float by but it’s not well defined – it’s like<br />
this little mass. But we can definitely tell<br />
she’s pregnant.” n<br />
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THE ARTS<br />
Cleveland Play House<br />
and the Community<br />
America’s first professional regional theatre partners with local organizations.<br />
by Erica Beimesche<br />
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IF YOU ASK ARTISTIC DIRECTOR LAURA KEPLEY<br />
what Cleveland Play House (CPH) is all about, she’ll tell you that the<br />
theatre exists “to tell stories that matter; to nurture artists at every stage<br />
of their career; to create thrilling, bold, and necessary new work; and<br />
develop innovative education programs.” In short, to create art that<br />
reflects stories in our community and around the world, and in doing<br />
so strengthen the bonds that unite us. Each season, CPH stages seven to<br />
nine productions in three state-of-the-art venues at Playhouse Square in<br />
downtown Cleveland. And a lot goes in to making that happen.<br />
Behind the Scenes<br />
First, the artistic team reads and discusses hundreds of plays. After<br />
much consideration the season takes shape. Then, director and designers<br />
from around the country are chosen for each show, and soon they’re<br />
hard at work, collaborating as they imagine and outline the world of<br />
the play. As designs are finalized, the director and a casting agency cast<br />
the show. Before long, actors are in the rehearsal room learning lines,<br />
moving through blocking, and exploring each moment in the script.<br />
Meanwhile, carpenters, painters, prop masters, and costume artisans<br />
build the set, props, and costumes. Electricians hang the lights. Audio<br />
engineers program sound boards and rig microphones and speakers.<br />
As the artists craft world-class theatre productions, all energy is focused<br />
on meeting that one critical deadline: opening night. And that’s just<br />
the mainstage season. Other offerings include New Ground Theatre<br />
Festival, generously sponsored by Honorary Producer Roe Green, which<br />
showcases new theatrical works (from large-scale productions, to solo<br />
performances, to play readings) every spring.<br />
CPH has grown immensely—in size, scope, and impact—since its<br />
formation in 1915. What began as a living-room puppet theatre has<br />
evolved into America’s first professional regional theatre, and, in 2015,<br />
it received the coveted Regional Theatre Tony Award.® Over the years,<br />
it has hosted and helped launch the careers of many well-known actors,<br />
including Joel Grey (the original Emcee in Cabaret), Paul Newman<br />
(Academy Award winner for Eddie Felson in The Color of Money), and<br />
Alan Alda (Captain Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H).<br />
BELOW: A scene from the recent CPH production of Ken<br />
Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, a madcap<br />
comedic adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of<br />
the Baskervilles. Photo by Roger Mastroianni.<br />
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THE ARTS / CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE<br />
ABOVE: Cleveland Play House Artistic Director Laura Kepley (far right) and Managing Director Kevin Moore (on Laura’s right)<br />
accept the 2015 Regional Theatre Tony Award, one of the most prestigious and coveted honors in the entertainment industry.<br />
BELOW: Cleveland Play House celebrates the opening of its 100th season.<br />
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All the World’s a School<br />
Since part of the CPH mission is to<br />
produce theatre education programs of the<br />
highest professional standards, programs are<br />
offered in local schools and at CPH. Theatre<br />
is brought to kids in their schools with<br />
Classroom Matinees—touring productions<br />
that are written and produced with Cleveland<br />
students in mind. And thousands of students<br />
each year come to the theaters to experience<br />
the mainstage productions at special student<br />
matinees of mainstage shows.<br />
CPH teaching artists work in classrooms as<br />
part of CARE (Compassionate Arts Remaking<br />
Education), an artist-in-residence program<br />
that uses theatre to improve social emotional<br />
learning (SEL) skills and increase literacy. The<br />
theatre also hosts Educator Evenings, providing<br />
teachers with one hour of professional<br />
development, dinner, and a subsidized ticket<br />
for a mainstage performance that evening.<br />
With arts programs being cut back in<br />
schools across the country, Cleveland Play<br />
House has joined The United Way and<br />
Cleveland Metropolitan School District to<br />
re-define education, using a “wraparound<br />
strategy” that connects CPH with lowperforming<br />
schools. This in-school effort, using<br />
theatre techniques in everyday education, helps<br />
ensure children come to school every day ready<br />
to learn in a safe and encouraging environment.<br />
Besides ensuring access to adequate food and<br />
clothing, CPH in-school site coordinators<br />
help students build empathy, practice active<br />
listening, and strengthen communication skills.<br />
“In theatre, we get to take all of life’s<br />
challenges, and we get to rehearse them by<br />
playing them out in a way that’s safe and allows<br />
us to go to places that we wouldn’t in our<br />
normal life,” says Kepley. “Theatre is the closest<br />
you can get to all of life’s craziness without<br />
getting hurt.”<br />
KeyBank CPH College is another<br />
program that brings young people from<br />
more than 70 area high schools together to<br />
participate in masterclasses, socialize with<br />
their peers during lunch, converse about<br />
theatre, and attend plays—all for free. In<br />
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to 16 paid and housed apprenticeships. Finally,<br />
in partnership with Case Western Reserve<br />
University, CPH helps train performers as part<br />
of the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program;<br />
every two years, eight students are admitted<br />
for a three-year program in curriculum-based<br />
and performance experiences, culminating in<br />
an Actors’ Equity membership, a New York<br />
showcase, and a master’s degree.<br />
Cleveland Play House exists for Cleveland.<br />
Early CPH visionary Walter Flory once<br />
remarked: “Let us first recognize that the<br />
Play House belongs to the community. It<br />
was dedicated at birth to this great striving,<br />
thriving, and struggling, multifarious<br />
cosmopolitan city. We are merely its trustees<br />
and guardians, not its owners.” n<br />
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LIFESTYLE<br />
Hope Springs Eternal!<br />
For baseball fans, Spring Training is a time when anything is still possible. by Noel Ripley<br />
SPRING TRAINING IS A LONG CHERISHED<br />
TRADITION for baseball fans all across<br />
America. Folks of all ages travel to both<br />
Florida and Arizona to seek America’s<br />
favorite past time sport. Pleasant temps<br />
and bountiful sunshine compliment the<br />
intimate experience that only spring<br />
training offers, from meeting your favorite<br />
player to enjoying unique time with family<br />
and friends, both the Cactus and Grapefruit<br />
league will deliver!<br />
Spring training is almost as old as<br />
baseball itself. The best evidence points<br />
to spring training first taking place in<br />
1870, when the Cincinnati Red Stockings<br />
and the Chicago White Stockings held<br />
organized baseball camps in New Orleans.<br />
Other baseball historians argue that the<br />
Washington Capitals of the National League<br />
pioneered spring training in 1888, holding a<br />
four-day camp in Jacksonville. In either case,<br />
the roots of spring training history go deep,<br />
and the specific origins really don’t matter. By<br />
1900, spring training was firmly established<br />
as a baseball ritual, with most American<br />
and National League teams heading out of<br />
town so players could train and managers<br />
could evaluate. Small Florida and Arizona<br />
communities were suddenly known across<br />
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LIFESTYLE / SPRING TRAINING<br />
CACTUS LEAGUE<br />
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Cincinnati Reds<br />
Cleveland Indians<br />
Colorado Rockies<br />
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Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim<br />
Los Angeles Dodgers<br />
Milwaukee Brewers<br />
Oakland Athletics<br />
San Diego Padres<br />
San Francisco Giants<br />
Seattle Mariners<br />
Texas Rangers<br />
before Opening Day of the regular season,<br />
traditionally the first week of April. In<br />
some years, teams not scheduled to play on<br />
Opening Day will play spring training games<br />
that day. Pitchers and catchers report to<br />
spring training first because pitchers benefit<br />
from a longer training period. A few days<br />
later, position players arrive and team practice<br />
begins. Team members normally wear their<br />
batting practice uniforms for the duration of<br />
spring training and only wear their normal<br />
jerseys beginning on Opening Day.<br />
AS A FRESH SEASON APPROACHES, we’re<br />
excited to see what our favorite team looks<br />
like for the upcoming season. High hopes<br />
the new players acquired in trade deals will<br />
perhaps be the missing link the team may<br />
desperately need or the season veteran has<br />
come back fully recovered from his injury<br />
that kept him out most if not all of last<br />
season. Nonetheless, we are optimistic and<br />
ready to don our favorite sports gear and<br />
head to the ballpark.<br />
Recently, I traveled to Arizona, where<br />
the teams of the Cactus league practice. First<br />
stop was catching up with the World Series<br />
champions, the Chicago Cubs.<br />
Wow, Cubbies fans are truly one-of-akind.<br />
I arrived at Sloan Field on a Monday,<br />
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looked excited to be back!<br />
Next stop, Cincinnati Reds at Goodyear<br />
Ballpark.While at Goodyear – which is a<br />
jointly used facility servicing the Reds and the<br />
Cleveland Indians – I was given an insiders<br />
tour of the nuts and bolts that make these<br />
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From the “Six Pack,” which is the<br />
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arms and delivery, to batting cages complete<br />
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One thing I’m willing to bet hasn’t<br />
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rookies to veteran Major Leaguers alike – is<br />
the drive and passion these player have to<br />
perform to the best of their ability. It’s still<br />
evident on all of their faces.<br />
Whether it was the rookies at their first<br />
Spring Training, a seasoned pitcher coming<br />
off a long stretch of arm rehabilitation, or a<br />
franchise player picking up where they left<br />
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reminder that, even though baseball has<br />
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Frozen Mango-Lime<br />
Margaritas<br />
Ingredients:<br />
3 fresh ripe mangos<br />
1 cup silver (white) tequila<br />
1 /3 cup fresh squeezed lime juice<br />
2 tablespoons orange liqueur (Cointreau)<br />
4 tablespoons sugar<br />
1 cup ice water<br />
ice cubes for blending<br />
Directions:<br />
Place the mango, tequila, lime juice,<br />
Cointreau, sugar, water and ice into a blender<br />
and blend until smooth.<br />
Chili-Rubbed<br />
Pan Roasted Chicken<br />
Chicken Ingredients:<br />
Bunch of fresh cilantro, chopped<br />
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil<br />
4 large bone-in chicken breast halves<br />
or thighs, skin on<br />
2½ teaspoons chili powder<br />
½ teaspoon cumin<br />
Sea salt<br />
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3 tablespoons honey<br />
1 /3 cup chicken stock<br />
3 tablespoons unsalted butter<br />
Directions:<br />
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.<br />
In a large ovenproof skillet heat over<br />
medium-high heat.<br />
Add the olive oil and heat until<br />
shimmering. Season the chicken with chili<br />
power, cumin and salt to taste.<br />
Put the chicken breasts in the skillet skin<br />
side down and cook until brown. Turn the<br />
chicken and transfer the pan to the oven.<br />
Cook until firm, basting with the pan<br />
drippings 20 minutes.<br />
Transfer the chicken to a plate and cover<br />
with foil to keep warm. Add lime juice to the<br />
pan chicken was cooked in. Cook for 1 minute<br />
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Pork Carnitas<br />
Pork Carnitas<br />
Pork Carnitas are very versatile. This<br />
recipe is so easy – just set it and forget it in the<br />
slow cooker.<br />
Pork Ingredients:<br />
6 pound boneless pork shoulder (skin<br />
removed but leave some of the fat cap on)<br />
1¼ chopped onion<br />
2 jalapeno peppers, seeded and chopped<br />
2½ teaspoons sea salt<br />
1½ teaspoons black pepper<br />
5 cloves garlic, minced<br />
2 fresh oranges, juiced (or use 3/4 cup fresh<br />
squeezed orange juice)<br />
Rub Ingredients:<br />
1 tablespoon dried oregano<br />
4 crushed dried bay leaves<br />
2½ teaspoons ground cumin<br />
1½ tablespoons extra virgin olive oil<br />
Instructions:<br />
Rinse and dry the pork and rub in salt and<br />
pepper. Combine the rub ingredients and rub<br />
all over the pork. Place the pork in the slow<br />
cooker fat cap up.<br />
Top with onion, jalapeno, garlic and the<br />
orange juice.<br />
Cook on low for 8 to 10 hours or on high<br />
for 6 hours. The meat should be tender and<br />
falling off the bone when done.<br />
Remove from slow cooker and let cool.<br />
Shred the pork using two forks.<br />
Skim the fat from the juices remaining,<br />
discard the fat and set aside.<br />
To Serve:<br />
Heat 1½ tablespoons of olive oil in a large<br />
non stick pan over high heat.<br />
Place shredded pork into the pan and<br />
drizzle with juices from the cooked meat.<br />
Wait till the juices evaporate and the<br />
bottom side is golden brown and crusty. Turn<br />
and slightly sear the other side.<br />
Do not make it too brown because it will<br />
be too crispy and you need tender juicy meat.<br />
Repeat in batches till all meat is browned.<br />
Remove from skillet to serving platter and<br />
drizzle more juices over meat.<br />
Serve immediately with diced avocado,<br />
Pico de Gallo, sour cream, onions, and your<br />
preference of tacos or tortillas.<br />
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Avocado and Tomato Salad<br />
Ingredients:<br />
4 medium vine ripe tomatoes, chopped<br />
2 avocados, chopped<br />
1 /3 cup diced red onion<br />
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil<br />
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar<br />
2 teaspoons fresh squeezed lime juice<br />
Sea salt and fresh ground pepper to taste<br />
Directions:<br />
Mix all ingredients in a bowl and toss<br />
gently.<br />
Let stand 5 to 10 minutes before serving.<br />
Avocado and Tomato Salad<br />
Black Beans and Rice<br />
Black Beans and Rice<br />
Ingredients:<br />
1 pound dried black beans<br />
6 cups water<br />
1 cup chopped onion<br />
1 cup chopped peppers<br />
2 jalapeno peppers seeded and chopped<br />
4 cloves garlic, minced<br />
1 /3 cup extra virgin olive oil<br />
3 bay leaves<br />
1 teaspoon sea salt<br />
1 /3 teaspoons black pepper<br />
1 slices cooked crisp and crumbled bacon<br />
2½ tablespoons red wine vinegar<br />
2 cups cooked long-grain rice<br />
¼ teaspoon cumin<br />
Directions:<br />
In a large stockpot cover black beans<br />
with water and boil for 2 minutes.<br />
Remove from heat and let stand for one<br />
hour. (You can also cover beans in a stockpot<br />
and let the soak overnight if you prefer.)<br />
Drain water and cover beans with 6 or 7<br />
cups fresh water.<br />
Saute the onions, bell peppers (red,<br />
yellow, orange), jalapeno, and garlic until<br />
tender. Add onion mixture and all remaining<br />
ingredients except the vinegar to the beans<br />
and bring to a boil.<br />
Reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours<br />
covered or until the beans are tender. Add<br />
more water if necessary. Just before serving<br />
add the red wine vinegar.<br />
Serve over cooked rice and top with<br />
chopped green onions, fresh cilantro, and/or<br />
sour cream!<br />
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COOKING / ¡LA ESPECIA DE LA VIDA!<br />
Jalapeno Cornbread<br />
Ingredients:<br />
2 /3 cup unsalted butter<br />
2 /3 cup white cane sugar<br />
2 cups cornmeal<br />
1 1 /3 cups all purpose flour<br />
4½ teaspoons baking powder<br />
1 teaspoon salt<br />
3 extra large eggs<br />
1 cups milk<br />
2 /3 cup buttermilk<br />
¾ cups chopped, seeded jalapeno peppers<br />
Directions:<br />
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.<br />
Grease 9 x 13 inch glass baking dish.<br />
Beat sugar and butter together until<br />
smooth. Combine flour, cornmeal, baking<br />
powder and salt in a separate bowl. Mix eggs,<br />
milk and buttermilk in another bowl. Pour 1/3<br />
of milk and butter milk mixture with 1/3 of the<br />
flour/ cornmeal mixture; whisk until just mixed.<br />
Repeat with remaining ingredients and<br />
stir in jalapeno peppers.<br />
Pour in baking dish and bake until a<br />
toothpick inserted in the center comes out<br />
clean, about 25 minutes.<br />
Mango Lime Mousse<br />
Ingredients<br />
2 mangos, peeled and diced<br />
3 tablespoons fresh squeezed lime juice<br />
2 egg whites<br />
1 thinly sliced lime (for garnish)<br />
3 tablespoons honey<br />
1 1 /3 cups heavy cream<br />
3 tablespoons zest of lime<br />
Directions:<br />
Puree the mangoes, honey and lime juice<br />
in a blender until smooth.<br />
Whip the heavy cream into soft peaks;<br />
gently fold the whipped cream into the mango<br />
puree.<br />
Beat egg whites in a clean dry bowl until<br />
stiff. Gently fold half of the egg whites into the<br />
mango mixture until well blended then fold<br />
in the remaining egg whites into the mousse<br />
mixture.<br />
Pour into small ramekins and chill for at<br />
least 2 hours.<br />
Garnish with lime zest and lime slices.<br />
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Rice Pudding<br />
Ingredients:<br />
¾ cup uncooked white rice<br />
1 cup milk, divided<br />
1 cup half and half, divided<br />
½ cup white cane sugar<br />
¼ teaspoon sea salt<br />
1 extra large egg, beaten<br />
2 /3 cup golden raisins<br />
2 tablespoons unsalted butter<br />
1 /3 teaspoon vanilla extract<br />
Directions:<br />
Bring 1½ cups water to a boil in a heavy<br />
saucepan; stir rice into boiling water. Reduce<br />
heat to low, cover and simmer rice for 20<br />
minutes.<br />
In a clean saucepan combine 1½ cups<br />
cooked rice, ½ cup milk, ½ cup half and half,<br />
sugar and salt. Cook over medium heat until<br />
thick and creamy about 20 minutes. Stir in<br />
remaining milk, beaten egg and raisins; cook<br />
3 minutes longer, stirring constantly. Remove<br />
from heat and stir in butter and vanilla.<br />
Garnish with sprinkle of cinnamon and<br />
nutmeg and a spoon-full of whipped cream. n<br />
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GAMES<br />
Ultimate Word Search<br />
S A V F N T T Q Y B R E D A S<br />
K W T N I R Q R A A M V A I R<br />
R K H N O O V A D O P Q Q G E<br />
O D X P A X N N G U N S E R W<br />
W J R B K L S A N Q O Z G O O<br />
C I S T P A T R I C K N P E H<br />
A O N O R I E A N N I P E G S<br />
S C M I P A W B E R I R K D Y<br />
A E F M S P A B P H T A E N C<br />
H J R T U S R S O H E P N H L<br />
V C E V E N T H C A E R T U O<br />
P R R B I G I A I I M I U K V<br />
U P A A O C E T V D K L C O E<br />
B L R L M P E S Y F O V K F R<br />
L Y F Y L M A D N E S S Y Q K<br />
ATLANTA<br />
KENTUCKY<br />
ST PATRICK<br />
SERVICE<br />
FIONA<br />
GEORGIA<br />
DERBY<br />
MARCH<br />
STEWART<br />
CLOVER<br />
PEACHTREE<br />
BASEBALL<br />
MADNESS<br />
IRON<br />
EASTER<br />
AIRPORT<br />
OPENING DAY<br />
COMMUNITY<br />
WORKS<br />
APRIL<br />
SPRING<br />
GOLF<br />
OUTREACH<br />
HIPPO<br />
SHOWERS<br />
Solution on page 66<br />
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Ultimate Crossword<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
14 14 15<br />
16<br />
17 17 18<br />
19 20 21<br />
22 23 24 25<br />
26 27 28<br />
29 30 31 32<br />
32 33<br />
33 34 35<br />
36 37<br />
38 39 40<br />
41<br />
42 43 44<br />
45<br />
45 46 47 48<br />
49 50<br />
51 52<br />
53 54 55<br />
56 57<br />
58 59 60 61<br />
62 63 63 64 65<br />
66<br />
67 66 68 67 69<br />
ACROSS<br />
1. Meat dish<br />
5. Stain<br />
9. Ocean liners<br />
14. ___ Survivor<br />
15. Short letter<br />
16. Tourist stop<br />
17. Picnic pest<br />
18. ’80s TV character Bundy<br />
19. Cobbler’s concern<br />
21. Toward<br />
22. Looked slyly<br />
24. Halt!<br />
25. Traveler’s guide<br />
26. Dart<br />
27. Went by plane<br />
28. Bundle of cotton<br />
29. Short distance<br />
31. Declared<br />
32. Naughty<br />
33. Roll of money<br />
34. 16 liquid ounces<br />
35. Stroke<br />
38. ’80s TV character Bundy<br />
39. Jumps like a bunny<br />
40. Ice cream holder<br />
41. 2016 Meghan Trainor song<br />
42. Parking timers<br />
44. Keep busy<br />
45. Detroit product<br />
46. Common rodent<br />
47. Sewer tube<br />
48. Adhesive item<br />
49. Box-office king<br />
51. Sound of disapproval<br />
52. Stroke<br />
53. Spinning toy<br />
54. Ready money<br />
55. Thief<br />
58. At home<br />
59. Gone by<br />
60. Obese<br />
61. Fruit drink<br />
62. Goes by car<br />
64. Leave out<br />
66. Eons<br />
61. Tally<br />
68. Tardy<br />
69. Camper’s “house”<br />
DOWN<br />
1. Smack<br />
2. Pitch<br />
3. Enrolled in<br />
4. You and I<br />
5. Snow vehicle<br />
6. Greedy chap<br />
7. Atop<br />
8. Tried<br />
9. Store<br />
10. Chopping tool<br />
11. Stephen King novel<br />
12. Rose leaf<br />
13. Incline<br />
18. Baby’s play yard<br />
20. By what means?<br />
23. Young dog<br />
24. Long cut<br />
25. Created<br />
27. Loyal admirers<br />
28. Unfurnished<br />
29. Took a dip<br />
30. Fable<br />
31. Small tastes<br />
32. Place for a nest egg<br />
34. Harbor<br />
35. Apple center<br />
36. Break suddenly<br />
37. Painfully tender<br />
39. Listen to<br />
40. Policemen<br />
43. Snare<br />
44. Hope longingly<br />
45. Companion of corned beef<br />
47. A derringer<br />
48. 2010 movie “Hot ___ Time<br />
Machine”<br />
49. Mixes<br />
50. Curative<br />
51. Owns<br />
52. Decay<br />
54. Lawsuit<br />
55. Appraise<br />
56. First garden<br />
57. Take it easy<br />
59. For each<br />
60. Be suitable<br />
63. Perform<br />
65. Pa’s mate<br />
66. By<br />
Solution on page 66<br />
MARCH-APRIL 2017 // <strong>ULTIMATE</strong> 65
GAMES<br />
Ultimate Word Search<br />
Solution<br />
S A V F N T T Q Y B R E D A S<br />
K W T N I R Q R A A M V A I R<br />
R K H N O O V A D O P Q Q G E<br />
O D X P A X N N G U N S E R W<br />
W J R B K L S A N Q O Z G O O<br />
C I S T P A T R I C K N P E H<br />
A O N O R I E A N N I P E G S<br />
S C M I P A W B E R I R K D Y<br />
A E F M S P A B P H T A E N C<br />
H J R T U S R S O H E P N H L<br />
V C E V E N T H C A E R T U O<br />
P R R B I G I A I I M I U K V<br />
U P A A O C E T V D K L C O E<br />
B L R L M P E S Y F O V K F R<br />
L Y F Y L M A D N E S S Y Q K<br />
Ultimate Crossword<br />
Solution<br />
S T E W S S P O T W S H I P S<br />
L O N E P L I N E E H O T E L<br />
A N T P P E G E S H O E A T O<br />
P E E P E D E S T O P C M A P<br />
S P R U N A F L E W C B A L E<br />
S T E P T S A I D R B A D E S<br />
W A D S P I N T U C A R E S S<br />
A L N H O P S D C O N E U N O<br />
M E T E R S N W O R K I C A R<br />
P E R A T R P I P E I T A P E<br />
S T A R N H I S S U R U B T E<br />
T O P L C A S H O R O B B E R<br />
I N O P A S T O F A T P A D E<br />
R I D E S R O M I T M A G E S<br />
S C O R E Y L A T E N T E N T<br />
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