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The circus is in town By Goldsboro, NC News-Argus Staff March 27, 2013
News-Argus/TROY HERRING Workers set up the Cole Bros. Circus of Stars' "Big Top" early this morning at the Wayne County Fairgrounds. The circus will feature a performance tonight at 7:30 p.m., and performances on Thursday at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. read more: http://www.newsargus.com/news/archives/2013/03/27/the_circus_is_in_town/
Zembo Shrine Circus comes to town Photos from The Patriot-News By Mark Pynes Thursday, March 21, 2013 ALL PHOTOS BY MARK PYNES Harrisburg, PA Patriot-News
Nicole performs at The 66th annual Zembo Shrine Circus, Wednesday, at the Zembo Shrine Center in Harrisburg, Pa. The circus performs through Sunday, March 24, 2013. Mark Pynes | mpynes@pennlive.com
Nicole performs on the flying trapeze as party of the "Flying Pages" high wire act
Lloyds Old English Sheepdogs perform tricks
Robbie Donnert juggles five pins.
Clowns see the "little dipper" with a homemade telescope.
A Chicago Boyz Acrobatic Team member jumps over five clowns and a teammate at the 66th annual Zembo Shrine Circus
The Flying Anthony's perform from a Russian Swing
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Shrine Circus stuntman injured in 2012 fall files lawsuit against Saginaw County, circus organizers
Josh Headford competes during the Sick Air competition at the Berlin Fair in July 2011. Headford was injured during a motorcycle stunt in February in Saginaw.
from: MLIVE.COM
By Andy Hoag
on March 26, 2013
SAGINAW, MI — A stuntman injured after a 25-foot fall during a February 2012 motocross bike act at the Shrine Circus at The Dow Event Center has filed a lawsuit against circus organizers and Saginaw County.
Josh Headford in July filed the complaint in Saginaw County Circuit Court, claiming that Elf Khurafeh Shrine Temple, event venue management group SMG, and the county, among other entities, were careless and failed to protect him during his Feb. 5 jump at the circus.
Headford, who according to the lawsuit “shattered” his right elbow and right femur, suffered multiple rib fractures, and fractured his scapula and right wrist in the fall, is seeking in excess of $25,000 from the entities — a figure required to have the case placed in Circuit Court.
The case, assigned to Saginaw County Circuit Judge Darnell Jackson, has had dozens of filings since Headford first filed the lawsuit. A case evaluation is to be scheduled after June 21.
Headford's lawsuit states that he was injured when his motorcycle “came into contact with a performer's cable midway through his jump:"
"The performer's cable had been placed directly in Mr. Headford's airspace, creating the existence of a dangerous and hazardous condition,” the lawsuit states.
Responses from the county, SMG, and Elf Khurafeh state that those entities had no role in the incident and that the crash was the fault of either other, possibly unnamed, parties or Headford himself, or both.
Headford claims that “it was the duty of the defendants, by the agents and employees acting on (their) behalf, to exercise reasonable care and caution in and about the maintenance and management of (the circus) premises and to keep the same in a reasonable safe condition for those performers like (Headford).”
The defendants, Headford continues, “owed business invitees ... an affirmative duty to protect (them) from an unreasonable risk of harm.”
Headford states that he “jumped without incident in (the) same exact area on eight prior occasions during that weekend.
Ringling Bros. circus ringmaster talks "Built to Amaze"
from: cbsnews.com
March 19, 2013
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus prides itself on being the longest-running live entertainment show in the world. Ringmaster Andre McClain speaks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about the show's history, and this year's theme.
Circus entertains for a cause Event raises money for Shriners
WENDY TORELLO/TIMES HERALD Circus goers climb aboard for an elephant ride Tuesday afternoon at the Shrine Circus in Port Huron Benefits from the show will go to the Shriner's origination. from: thetimesherald.com Written by Liz Shepard , Times Herald Mar 26, 2013 Erick Harrison couldn’t stop smiling and pointing out the different acts inside McMorran Arena Tuesday as he held his 18-month-old grandson.
But it was more than the elephants and acrobats and tigers on display during the Shrine Circus.
Harrison was 12 in February 1980 when he was involved in a fiery traffic crash that killed his parents. With 85 percent of his body covered in burns, it was the Shriners who helped him recover.
“I tell them you aren’t going to believe the care you’re going to get,” the 46 year old said. “You can’t explain it in words.”
Harrison dons the Shriners’ signature maroon fez and is a strong proponent for the organization that runs more than 20 children’s hospitals throughout the country. He was treated at the Shriners hospital in Boston after the crash.
Tigers perform in the ring Tuesday afternoon at the Shrine Circus in Port Huron Benefits from the show will go to the Shriner's origination.
The organization raises funds through the circus and other events. This was the second year the circus came back to Port Huron after nearly a decade hiatus.
Chuck Baer, who organizes the Shrine Circus, said he’s looking forward to bringing it back next year.
“We like to see kids smile,” he said.
From elephant rides to tigers jumping through hoops and acrobats showing off their skills in the air, crowds took in the excitement during the two shows.
Acrobats dangle from their perch high above the ring Tuesday afternoon at the Shrine Circus in Port Huron Benefits from the show will go to the Shriner's origination.
Denise Harrison, Erick’s wife, said the organization has a special place in her heart. It was the first time their grandson, Lennon, got to ride an elephant.
“He had a blast,” she said.
Jimmy Schudlich, with the Blue Water Shrine Club, said an outreach meeting is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 11, at the YMCA of the Blue Water Area. The organization is looking for more local children to assist, “regardless of their ability to pay,” he said.
This March 23, 2013 photo shows performer Bello Nock, upper right, riding a miniature bicycle on a highwire, as his daughter Annalise Nock hangs below, and adoped son Zebulon Freicke assists, during his "Bello Mania" show at the New Victory Theater in New York. Nock, a seventh-generation circus performer, is never offstage during the 90-minute performance, which combines slapstick clowning with death-defying aerial stunts. He performs through March 31 at the New Victory before moving on to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and then a 10-week stint at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Miss. Richard Drew / AP By MOLLY GORDY Associated Press March, 26, 2013 NEW YORK -- Asked to describe the length of his hair, Bello Nock whips out a rubber foot, holds it next to the red mane rising from his scalp like a skyscraper and says, "About a foot tall."
The joke is old, but all the material is new in the 42-year-old comic daredevil's first independent production, "Bello Mania," currently playing at The New Victory Theater in New York.
This March 23, 2013 photo shows performer Bello Nock in his dressing room at the New Victory Theater, before performing in "Bello Mania," in New York. Nock, a seventh-generation circus performer, is never offstage during the 90-minute performance, which combines slapstick clowning with death-defying aerial stunts. He performs through March 31 at the New Victory before moving on to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and then a 10-week stint at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Miss. Richard Drew / AP Nock, who headlined the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus for eight years, is never offstage during the 90-minute performance, which combines slapstick clowning with death-defying aerial stunts.
"Studies have shown that people's greatest fears are performing in front of an audience, of being laughed at, and of heights - and my life is all three," Nock said in his dressing room at the New Victory. "It's a dream come true, and I'm loving every minute of it."
Nock's wife of 25 years, Jenny, wrote and directs "Bello Mania," while daughter Amariah, 19, is stage manager, daughter Annalise, 18, and son Zebulon Freicke, 22, join him on the high wire. Son Alexander, 23, opted out to pursue a psychology degree at the University of Wisconsin, but father Bello quips that "he's the real star of this show, because it's putting him through college."
Nock is a seventh-generation circus performer. "Bello Mania" includes a slideshow paying tribute to his mother and father, an Italian acrobat and Swiss tightrope artist who met while touring with Ringling Bros. during the 1950s.
The couple married and produced four sons, of whom Demetrius Alessandro Claudio Amadeus Bello is the youngest. Like his parents, Nock began circus training at 3 and performing at 11, a tradition he continued with his own children.
"People ask me if I missed having a normal childhood, but I got to explore the world," said Annalise. "While they were studying ancient Roman history, I was performing in Rome and visiting the Coliseum. It was cool!"
Bello Nock has also put this own slant on New York City tourism. On prior visits, he's has hung by his toes from a helicopter flying over the Statue of Liberty, walked a high wire over Lincoln Center and rappelled off Madison Square Garden.
This time, he says he'll stick to performing through March 31 at the New Victory before moving on to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and a 10-week stint at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Miss. Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/26/3307288/ap-photos-circus-star-comes-knocking.html#storylink=cpy
Run along in Disney's Princess Half Marathon 2012 at Walt Disney World
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Run along with the participants in the 2012 Disney's Princess Half Marathon. You'll run through the theme parks from start to finish with some Disney characters along the way.
Rosie the Presidential Elephant Golf Caddy from: retronaut.com 1920's
“Rosie starred in publicity photos as a “golf caddy” for vacationing president Warren G. Harding, which established Miami Beach as an exotic destination” - Wikipedia
Big Apple Circus contortionist hits the mark
(CREDIT: Nicolaus Czarnecki/Metro) from: www.metro.us/boston By JONATHAN DONALDSON Published: March 26, 2013 Where last year’s Big Apple Circus was all about saying goodbye to the rabble-rousing, iconic Grandma the Clown, this year’s production cleans the slate by bringing audiences back to circus of yesteryear.
“Legendarium,” the 35th anniversary production of the Big Apple Circus, returns audiences to a time when traveling circuses were a part of village life. Or so it will feel when the storied company continues its annual Boston residency in the modernist setting of Boston’s City Hall Plaza through the middle of May.
Argentina-born contortionist Elayne Kramer hopes that first-time audiences will have the same experience that she did upon seeing the Big Apple Circus for the first time as a child. The sixth generation circus performer remembers being completely transfixed by the closeness she felt, both literally and figuratively, to the performers in the big top.
“I fell in love with it,” says the 21-year-old. “That sense of connection with the audience is so important.”
(CREDIT: Nicolaus Czarnecki/Metro) She’s just given an eye-popping outdoor performance at Faneuil Hall, where she charmed a frigid, but willing crowd with skills such as balancing on her hands and casually bending her legs over her head like a scorpion’s tail. Kramer’s remarkable act incorporates the ancient trick of firing a bow and arrow with her feet. According to Kramer, her signature trick goes back to the year 61A.D. and was discovered by her father in Samoa.
“My father walked into a pub and found a picture of an Indian woman holding a bow and arrow with her feet. He kept that picture for many years and when I was six years old he showed me and said ‘would you like to try this?’”
Little Elayne said yes. But don’t be worried about the arrow going into the seats. Remember, she has been practicing since the age of six and first executed the trick at the age of seven. “If you’re nine years old, you’re already too old to learn contortionism!” Other performers in the Big Apple group offer modern spins on time-tested circus staples like clowning, animal training, tumbling, juggling, trapeze, wire, aerial skills and more—all skills within Kramer’s own amazing DNA.
“My father did everything. Teeter board, flying trapeze, tightrope, slack-wire, hand balancing and tumbling with his brothers. My mother was an aerialist, did hair-hanging—an art that people don’t know much about anymore—and was a rope dancer.” Kramer herself was in the fold from birth. “It’s easier to get into the circus than to leave it!”
read more: http://www.metro.us/boston/uncategorized/2013/03/26/big-apple-circus-contortionist-hits-the-mark/attachment/1-10/
Mclaren Circus
March 26, 2013
One of our young tigers Zeus in a training session this morning. After he jumps he gets the meat on the end of the stick.
Lutheran minister traveled with circus from: toledoblade.com March 27, 2013 The Rev. Donald R. Brewer, 74, a former pastor of Augsburg Lutheran Church whose boyhood interest in sleight of hand and the Big Top led to a circus ministry, died in Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center on Saturday, 10 days after he had a stroke.
He retired from Augsburg in 2003, but continued to serve as an interim and substitute pastor at parishes of the Northwestern Ohio Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
“He said he was called to preach the Gospel, and he was never called away from it,” his wife, Melody, said.
He was installed as senior pastor of Augsburg in 1987. “He stayed because he felt at home,” his wife said. “He said that everything he had ever done in his ministry was in preparation for coming to Augsburg.”
Pastor Brewer, who lived in the Old West End, was a skilled conciliator and convener, able to defuse problems; good at inviting people together to talk things out.
He had been chairman of the synod’s Ecumenical Commission and was among a group of Lutherans and Roman Catholics that drafted a covenant of trust and cooperation, which was signed in 2001 by the late Rev. James Hoffman, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Toledo, and Lutheran Bishop Marcus Lohrmann. Pastor Brewer also was on the board of the Ohio Council of Churches.
“He had a sense of care and love for the whole of the Church,” Bishop Lohrmann of the Northwestern Ohio Synod said. “He genuinely loved being a pastor.”
He earlier served parishes in Preble County and in Kettering, Ohio.
As a boy, when the circus came to town, he awoke at dawn to help workers unload and set up. The gift of a magic kit from his paternal grandfather, also a Lutheran pastor, started him on the path to performance. For nearly a decade early in his ministry, he and his wife and their daughters spent summers with small circuses. He could juggle fire on a high bar and spin plates and make his daughters disappear. For the 10th anniversary of his ordination, he took a sabbatical, and the Brewers spent a full season in circus life. He counseled his circus colleagues, many of whom felt left behind by the church and society.
“It was glorious fun and I thoroughly enjoyed the circus ministry,” Pastor Brewer told The Blade in 1988.
He carved carousel animals, mostly in miniature, and spent a week each summer at a carousel museum in New York. He was a former president of the Black Swamp Woodcarvers and had been entertainment chairman of the Old West End Festival and on the Mansion View Inn’s board.
He was born Sept. 13, 1938, in Tarentum, Pa., to Alice and Clifford Brewer. He graduated from high school in Decatur, Ind.
He was a graduate of Wittenberg University and Hamma Divinity School, from which he received a master’s degree. He received a master’s in sacred theology from United Theological Seminary in Dayton. He was ordained in 1963.
Surviving are his wife, Melody, whom he married Jan. 20, 1962; daughters, Dawn Ying, Cherie Brewer-Coon, and Micheline Brewer; sister, Judy Hoff, and six grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Monday in the Walker Funeral Home. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Glenwood Lutheran Church.
The family suggests tributes to Glenwood Lutheran Church; One Appeal at the Northwestern Ohio Synod, Findlay, or the Cherry Street Mission.
SARASOTA - Sailor Circus is one of the treasures that makes Sarasota the unique place it is. It's a circus arts program open to all Sarasota County students from 4th grade to 12th.
The spring show, called Let the Music Move You, opens Thursday and runs through Saturday this weekend, and Wednesday through Saturday next weekend.
By Bruce Whetten From: Douglas Dispatch March 27, 2013 The circus is coming to Douglas. The Douglas Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with various local merchants will be bringing a circus to Douglas on Tuesday, April 23.
Chamber President Susan Kramer said last week on the Voice of Douglas the Culpepper and Merriweather Circus will have two shows at 5:30 and 7 p.m.
“They are a traditional American circus under a big top,” Kramer said. “We’re hoping everybody comes out. It promises to be a great show. They have clowns, animal acts. Before and after the shows there will be game booths; jumping castles, etc.”
The tent the circus performs under weighs 3600 pounds and is 120 feet long by 80 feet wide. It is 30 feet tall at its highest point. It is divided into three sections.
The event will take place on the empty lot on First Street and F Ave.
Presale tickets are $10 for adults, $6 for kids 3-12. The day of the circus the prices increase to $13 and $7.
Tickets are on sale at Southwestern Carpets, Jay Everett Jones Realty, El Chef and the Douglas Visitors Center.
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