Goodbye 2012!

This will be the last Hollywood Four blog post for 2012. The video below contains some picture memories from December 2012. Please check back on January 1, 2013 for a fresh, newly designed hollywood-four.blogspot.com website ... oh, and we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Animated fun from the PartnerShip Pole!

Here is a reprint of the article and video I posted on The PartnerShip Connection Blog this morning. So I thought I would share it here as well:

Continuing a tradition that began a few years ago, PartnerShip has once again created a short and fun seasons greetings video in appreciation for our customer partners and our carrier partners. This year's video gives you an exclusive, behind the scenes view of what goes on at the PartnerShip Pole ... we hope you enjoy it! (you can also view it directly on the PartnerShip YouTube Channel). The PartnerShip team wishes you all the very best during this busy holiday season, as well as a prosperous and joyous new year!



Special thanks to Barbara Teleha, the PartnerShip graphic designer responsible for this year's animated fun!

Holiday Luncheon at PartnerShip

Here is a reprint of the article and video I posted on The PartnerShip Connection Blog this morning. Thought I would share it on the Hollywood Four Blog as well:

Consistent with annual tradition, the PartnerShip employees gathered together last week Friday for a fun, holiday luncheon. In addition to good food, and a couple holiday games, we also had our first ever "ugly sweater contest." As showcased in the video below, the employees who participated in the contest really strutted their stuff. Ultimately, it was Alex West (customer service representative) that won the popular vote. Congratulations Alex and thank you PartnerShip for providing such a great workplace culture!

Mustangs Lose to Leafs in 2nd League Game

Friday night the Strongsville Mustangs played their second regular season game. Once again (fourth time this year including exhibition games) we played the Geauga Maple Leafs. Also, once again, despite being the home team we actually played on neutral ice at the Gilmour Academy in Gates Mills, OH. It was another tight match with neither team scoring goals through two periods. In the third, we allowed the Leafs to sneak a couple goals past our goalie, but then roared back with a goal of our own scored by Andrew (#97) and assisted by Blake (#12). Trailing by one goal and with only a couple minutes left in the game, we pulled our goalie. Unfortunately, the Leafs scored an empty netter sealing the victory. Here are the highlights (including footage from Mr. Finch and from Mrs. Frederick).

Mustang Team Photos 2012

Andrew's hockey pictures have arrived. Here is his 2012 mug shot, along with the team photo.

Rock-N-Roll Cup in Cleveland

This past weekend Andrew and the Strongsville Mustangs team played in the Rock-N-Roll Cup tournament here in Cleveland. This was supposed to be a four team tournament against evenly matched opponents in a "round-robin" format where each team plays the other once and the top two teams play for the championship. Our first game was against MCYH (Rochester, NY). This was an extremely physical game and, despite outshooting the other team, the Mustangs lost short 0-3. In our second game we played Dayton and lost that one 0-10. In the end, Dayton was disqualified because they won all of their round-robin games by double-digits and were obviously a higher level team that was just "trophy-hunting." That left us in a game 3 match-up against Geauga (our nemesis) to determine which team would face MCYH in the championship game. The Mustangs exploded with a 7-2 victory that was led by Kanzig (#13) who had a hat-trick and an assist. Andrew (#97) was second on the team with three assists. Gaeschke (#81), Eisenaugle (#12), Beaver (#47) and Vandenbusche (#91) all chipped in goals as well with the assists coming from others on the team; and "the kid" Forsythe (#21) was spectacular in goal. The victory setup another physical rematch with MCYH on Sunday. Gower (#20) and Crossman (#87) led the Mustangs with solid "hits" in the game with 5 and 4, respectively. But despite both teams having around the same number of shots on goal, the MCYH goalie was simply too hot (he ended up MVP of tournament) and the Mustangs fell short again by a close score of 0-2. Overall, the kids played tough and earned themselves and extra game as well as the runner-up trophy and medals. Nice job Mustangs!

Petessence

Abby has been working on a fun project for her Sociology class the past few weeks. First she had to come up with an interesting new product idea (Petessence - perfume for pets) and target market (upper scale consumers); then she had to pitch it to investors (I helped her with that, including an ROI analysis that impressed everyone); and lastly, she she had to create a video commercial with testimonials. For this latter part of the assignment, she worked with her friends Paige (who was also part of the project) and Sarah to shoot and edit the following video. Overall, I think it turned out great (in a cheesy sort of way). I also think Abby could easily pursue a career in sketch comedy if she wanted with her different accents and personalities.