The Rhythm of Ireland - Promo

A couple years ago, I helped the O'Hare School of Irish Dance put together a short promotional video that they used on their website to promote one of their featured, annual events: The Rhythm of Ireland. Although I missed last year's event (here's a link to the performance from two years ago), this year I was able to help them out again. So, here is the new video promotion that is posted to my Hollywood Four YouTube channel.

Andrew Hockey Highlights

Here are a few hockey clips and highlights from the past couple weeks of Andrew (finally wearing his official #97 game uniform) and the Medina High School Bees JV Hockey team. The last clip in this highlight reel is of Andrew scoring his second goal of the season. On a related note, the Medina Varsity team is continuing where they left off last season with a #2 ranking in the state of Ohio for club teams, and #16 ranking among all high school teams.

Akron First Night 2014

Abby, once again this year, and the O'Hare School of Irish Dance performed live at the Akron First Night 2014 celebration. This year, First Night Akron celebrated its 18th year as a family friendly New Year's celebration that entertains with music, fireworks and activities for adults and children alike. More than 80 artists and performing groups will entertain during the event, including such diverse musical acts as the Beatles tribute Hard Day's Night, Colin Dussault's Blues Project, the Akron Symphony's Gospel Meets Symphony Choir, the Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble, Fergie & the Bog Dogs, the Smokin' Fez Monkeys (jug band), a Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash tribute show, Akron Big Band and the Street Beat Drummers. Here are a couple of the dances from the performance captured on film by mom:

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to the Hollywood Four blog. This year we mark our 7th year of blogging. To view reruns from our previous six years, click the links shown to the right under the "PAST YEARS" heading. In year's past I would normally archive the ending year and then create a brand new blog design for the new year. As our family blogging activity has been winding down the past couple years, it is my intent to use this year's blog for at least the next few years rather than starting from scratch again - hence the new, Hollywood evergreen design!

We have some great family milestones coming up in 2014: Grandma Carole will celebrate her 80th birthday in February; Abby will graduate from High School in May and then start her college career at Kent State University in the fall; and Andrew will transition from his freshman to sophomore year in high school. At this point, I still plan on leading marketing and IT development at PartnerShip LLC (logistics) for the foreseeable future, and mom still plans on being the Jack-of-all-trades at Woodbine Products (soap products).

Before we proceed forward creating and sharing new memories in 2014 and beyond, let's first take a look back at all of the wonderful blessings and experiences we shared in 2013 ...