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Although his primary interest laden music and performance you realize that probably wasn't going to pay the bills. After a few years off after high school and some prompting from a friend not enrolled at Youngstown State University and received his degree in computer information systems naturally started applying for jobs sent 35 resumes out and got to offers because Youngstown Ohio is not really known for being a tech cord or anything like that at the time I ended up taking a job with a company that did audience response systems is a really interesting concept and I really enjoyed that I work for the company for about a year and 1/2 year was 2001 whenever the 9/11 attacks occurred my position since it was so heavily reliant on travel after 9/11 happened. It hurt that business quite a bit so within the course of you know, just a week or so after those attacks occurred, they lost a large percentage of their clients. They had to make some cuts to the staff and I was one of the cuts was pretty devastated. Obviously, I had the insurance for my family. My wife taught it in a private Christian school, so she didn't have insurance and just two weeks after that we found out that that we were going to have our first child so it was like a very stressful time and honor and remember meeting with the two fellows that I worked with in Boardman, Ohio member. We just got together we were talking about how we had ideas and that kindness spawned conversation about starting our own company and so a few months later, we ended up starting a company called turning technologies. We ended up gaining some traction and got in with some book publishers that offered our product along with college textbooks so that worked out rather well because you know overnight we had this massive sales force then pushing our product and it really really spawned early growth. Therefore company after so long. We ended up deciding to try to bring in some outside investment in to help grow more and ended up selling majority share of our company then in 2006 I started talking with a fellow named Linda Rico when he was a minister at the local church here in Columbiana languages share his heart and his desire for a drama ministry that he wanted to create and I guess over the course of the year. I really started to buy into the idea and I thought you know that would be something that I think would fit well within the Tana Columbiana people, referred to Columbiana as like a little Mayberry where most the neighbors knew each other and most the people were friendly and that sort of thing, but we ended up talking quite a bit about it and the course of the year we started looking at buildings in which we could how such a drama ministry and number we looked at like simple grocery stores ahead just nothing really seemed to fit in the meantime, there was still an operating cinema in the downtown rate on the square was called the Columbiana Cinema at the time and originally it opened up as a movie theater called the mannose theater back in late 1952 had come to a point where it was in was in need of fixing up because it was it was getting in pretty bad shape and we had conversation one day. I wonder if the one of the owner would consider selling that to us. So ended up meeting with him and told him kind of idea what we wanted to do and he agreed that he would be willing to sell it swayed up purchasing in. Guess it was February 2007, so we purchased the Columbiana Cinema but at that time, Lynn actually because of some personal reasons there had to.

He was going to be the one, running the ministry the drama ministry and then he just because a person reasons decided that he wasn't able to do it.

At that point but you know over the course of the year my wife and I got pretty excited about the idea we didn't necessarily know how it was gonna work out because I was still working a full-time job as a software engineer but we we made the decision to go ahead and purchase the building. Anyhow, and to start the renovation process to see where it leads and you're listening to Don Arthurs tell his story and in the end you'll be hearing more about his talent story.

Columbiana, Ohio, and in towns are filled up a people and their stories and what they decide to do with her town determines what happens to that town. This story comes to us in conjunction with work with Reader's Digest as we described earlier. They host a competition for folks submit stories about why they consider their talent to be the Nicest Pl. in America and our story about Columbiana, Ohio about Don Arthurs desire to start a drama ministry on his own dime in an entrepreneurial way and in the end, is your listening up your leap of faith into the unknown and this is in the end what makes towns to our entrepreneurs whether they be the kind who run businesses or the nonprofit types who start enterprises like a drama ministry. This is what makes and shapes our communities when we come back. The story of Don Arthurs. The story of Columbiana, Ohio. Here on our American stories view of the great American stories we tell and love America like we do, or asking you to become a part of the American stories family.

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We didn't have a separate production company or anything that we would work with some local artists there and one in particular his name was Jim Coke, an hour he had written a couple scripts there and he had called me up. The one day and asked if I would be interested in looking at one in particular called Christmas and Columbiana.

I think it was. So I met with him and it was that was a cute script and thought that the yeah the town would enjoy something like that. And somewhere around then Eric Hoffenberg Brown's former artistic director came out of the sea just I kinda came in at the beginning but I was there at the very beginning.

I graduated from Bowling Green State University with a degree in theater and I was determined that I was going work in theater despite my parents can you you'll never get a job in theater and I did in Cleveland at Caribou house which is kind of an African-American cultural center in East Cleveland. I worked in their drama theater for youth program one of the things I found out is that I absolutely hated professional theater. It was to caddy it was.

It was a difficult time. Lots of backstabbing and things like that and so I kinda shunned away from Peter. At that point. Also at that point I got married and I moved to this area to the Columbiana area. Essentially, I wasn't doing any theater I worked in retail for a while but then I decided by the one part of my job there that I liked was teaching drama to three and Four and five-year-olds on Saturday mornings and so I thought while teaching might be a way to go. My my family are all educators and so I I gave it a night.

I started I went back to school, got my license to be a special education teacher, I worked here in the Columbiana area for 15 years doing that during that time I also kinda got sucked into crown theater so probably 10 years that I stayed away from theater after had a bad taste in my mouth from it. I was driving through town and they had a sign up that said the voice of Main Street competition that I'm a performer I enjoy singing and so I thought. Check it out. So I called and got the information had an audition for that they picked folks. It was kinda like a lichen American Idol kind of thing and so there are number performers, and this is actually the second year they had done so somebody had already won the year before, but they they had said if you witness you get this prize in the new. You also get to perform before shows and movies and things like that that we have throughout the year.

So you're like the voice of Main Street for the year wasn't looking for that is looking for performing and so I thought while get back into it and one that second year and then theater close down again like a he he had purchased it, renovated it and decided this is at work and I'm not making any money so close it down.

I felt bummed out because I and I felt shipped because I was the voice of Main Street.

At that point, and that it close and I was like, go figure. One month after I do that I they closed while they opened up about a year later, but they were doing a kid show counted, organized, and they were doing a kid show.

So we ended up putting a cast together and keep in mind that I know very little about theater. At this point and fact we we really didn't even have adequate stage lighting or even the backstage area is small because the building was not originally designed as a live production theater. It was just a movie theater and I brought my daughter to audition for that and ended up helping directed and through the whole process so and that's kinda how I got involved in directing years well but we ended up doing the best we could and we put together. It was a really cute show and we had a nice response from the community.

They enjoyed enjoy getting involved with it and being part of it and then also attending and without you know that was that was fun. It was a really neat way to I guess get involved in the community to utilize an outreach and crime is trying to grow and having difficulty and at that point I said to them, hey we know why I can help you put together a winning season something that's going to put people in the seats and will be profitable and go along with your mission with crown theater and I said if if there's a way to to pay me to do it. I can put a whole lot more time into it, but if if not, I'm willing to volunteer those services and so we did we pick that one of our first seasons which was pretty successful in just kept going from there and that's how I kinda got involved with crown theater what we were doing.

We wanted it to be family friendly so that was a safe space for no parents to drop the kids off and they didn't have to worry about you know what, what's going on with their kids might be exposed to or you know we basically just wanted a place to visit, that this time you know I had. I had three kids at the time and you know I just thought how important it was. As a parent to not worry about, you know where my kids are what they're doing enough to get into something they shouldn't and so we we just wanted this place to be.

Place the parents could drop the kids off and not worry. You know, we leave the drama on the stage. In other words, when you come to play practice. It's not about who to send one who did what gossip that kinda stuff more more so just general kind of moral code of conduct that we have where you are talking to people's back.

You're not saying bad things about other folks.

There's no you don't make anybody feel uncomfortable so and and some other issues that no swearing is something that we don't do because a lot of times we have kids around and and a lot of times are our goal was to our goal was to make family-friendly entertainment and so that limits us to the numbers shows that we can do just because some of the content stuff. We didn't feel was appropriate for a full family to come and see. So as crown kinda grew.

I kind of implemented my experience of hating the exclusive Peter community to an inclusive community. And so we wanted to pick shows that had wanted to give everybody a chance to be in so typically when we have additions here crown we we typically get hundred and 20 people that are additionally put 120 people on the catalyst and obviously some of those dropout and but we we like big casts that first season we just started building that up and running the theater as as a family. It really I with the family business model and listening to Don Arthurs and Eric Hoffenberg tell the story of how they created a community theater that mattered in their small town of Columbiana, Ohio why that matters is related to the small town becoming one of the nicest places to live in America.

Thanks to Reader's Digest.

Reader's Digest does this contest every year and this is how we improve townsfolk to begin great community spaces great restaurants, great arts great entertainment great great places where families can gather, but it takes people to do it when we come back we continue with the story of Don Arthurs and his merry band of warriors who decided to improve their small town. That story continues here on our American store millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7.

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We encourage our folks.

If they're not get what they want kinda go to other places but we have a lot of folks that have gone to other places and come back and said I had apparently said. First of all, our first rehearsal this theater I've never heard the effort you so much and just I just we appreciate what we have there crown and that kind of thing so like is that we encourage all all genres, all all the different theater is for all of our family members may come excited about you and the arts. You know we do we do sometimes catch a little flak or a reputation of being kind a goody two shoes that can estop from other theaters, but that's a formula that works for us and it's really cool to see full families coming to be in a show there, there's kind of a, it's what we almost caught like a no risk theater because in most shows when I say most, there are certain shows that we can't cast everybody that I additions but we have a show we can have a giant chorus in that show. It's kind of it's nice for kids to come. In addition, and not worry about not getting a partner door or something like that. But they know they're going to have a part and then parents and siblings and things like that. We have full families that come into theater together which is a great opportunity in ministry for families as well.

We have people that come back to life. I really don't like the show, but I'm going to audition for now is because I want to be a part of it and that's that's just testament to the folks that are involved with crown and the staff here everything that everything that gets put into it in 2015 crown theater would stumble onto a new type of production, one that would change their theater community. The town of Columbiana. Good. Debbie Solomon became our executive director for crown theater productions. Debbie had attended a special-needs production at a local church in Canton, Ohio that experience. I think I was 2015. She said when she left she was moved so much better performance in the I guess the authenticity of the performance like these folks got on stage like it. It wasn't like they were in a sometimes and in theater. You can really deal with like he goes it out. We are dealing with artists USA you get a lot of egos and stuff and but she said it was so different you know like everybody just they were just there to have fun and it was so so different was like a relief like like that's that's why would you want to do it just for the fun and the love of it, not necessarily see your name up on a billboard or anything like that young St. so she came back and that our next board meeting. She had told the rest of us about her experience and how much he said it moved here. I think she was moved to tears after performance. She said it was so good and asked what we thought about trying to start her own special-needs productions and of course we were all on board. Love the idea and Eric Hoffenberg at the time he was her artistic director for crown me being a special education teacher for 15 years. It was just kind of my worlds collided at that point and we started our our special-needs production. At this point we were displaying under one show we did. The little mermaid every actor has some sort of a special need and then we have a great group of volunteers that we call attendance. Each actor gets assigned an attendant that helps them out.

Whatever needs they are usually push a little bit for independence and for growth. So if an actor need somebody on stage feeding them each line right behind them than that that attended dresses in black, the actors in a costume and they may stand there and feed the livestock, but if they are able to memorize a line you know some attendant stand on the sidelines and in the wings and and send thereafter on, when it's time, and when they come off and change costumes and that kind of thing but we make it possible for everybody to participate no matter what the special need is and so you kind of built that to two shows a year with our special-needs program year or so of putting on this productions. One of the grandmothers. She couldn't believe you know the difference that she saw. Even in her grandson rings up on stage and actually moved her so much that she saw where Reader's Digest was doing their search for a Nice Pl. in America for 2019. So she wrote a letter to them telling them about crown theater production special-needs program. They contacted us and came out and started doing the interviews and such and then they went out to the community and they really removed as well when they saw productions because we invited him to watch some of the auditions in the rehearsals and in that year, Columbiana, Ohio, became Reader's Digest Nice Pl. in America the day that we had the announcement and the excitement in that room is just I thought the roof was going to go off. You know there is so much excitement really fun experience crown theater special-needs program did more than they had ever imagined it could. Once people saw the change in their kids and stuff when they came out for the productions, how it like it gave them some opportunities that they had never had before where you know they were had community they had basically a group to get to know each other and see some come in for the first day of auditions being very reserved and kinda like in their shells over course of several months that they got together. By the time the production like they were just almost different kids like pages came to life and it was just remarkable parents were like so grateful for the opportunity and no change that David saw that it brought the kids and it was such a cool experience all around.

And it really became just a really cool environment where you saw people get along that may be outside Edo over Facebook SR think maybe wouldn't get along when even consider talking to each other. You mean like whenever they came in the doors of the theater, they became family and that was the thing that was really big for us as we call it a crown family focus families have dysfunction you know but at the end of the day. You know I still love your family after 13 years of running crown theater productions. The Arthur's were faced with the fact that they can no longer financially sustain theater with the impact crown and made on the community.

Columbiana jumped into action and Eric off for now the chair of the Columbiana Chamber of Commerce started the Columbiana cultural collective nonprofit who hopes to buy continue operating the theater and crown theater productions speak for my wife and I here in that our heart is that you know that the dream of theater of what crown theater productions is been able to create this family in this town are hard is that it continues to live on for generations, and a great job as always by Robbie on the production that these and that storytelling is special thanks to Don Arthur's were telling his story and for inspiring anybody listen, you can make a difference in your town you can start that will proceed.

You can start that local restaurant you can build up the cultural identity of your town and make it a better place to live and I was hoping the chamber will pick it up and run with the Davis time gave his money and the ideas out there clearly made Columbiana, Ohio. One of the nicest places in America to live the story of Columbiana. The story of Don Arthur's on our Americans soon. Millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be this@uhcmedicarehealthplans.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives.

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Ryan struggled with addiction for majority of his life. It was only through the help of others that he was able to come out on the other side.

Here's Ryan with his story. Suppose I could say I used to be an alcoholic but supposedly, that means you're not off the rest your life so if you're reflective you can look back and you can see the markers that were always there. Like when we got introduced to beer in the seventh grade who was the one to drink too much acting like a fool. It was me I like all the other kids seem to be able to get drunk or whatever and not destroy anything to the markers were always there. The alcohol wasn't good for me but I didn't really totally spiral out of control until like maybe my 30s I drank too much but I somehow was with was called functional and then I slowly start drinking more and I start drinking more and then when I get in trouble, drinking, and I mean like it's sale, get the bar fighting all get arrested or something like that. Then I had that deal with that. That tech machine you know so that adds to it. I was in a dark place.

You know drinking and drugging and not liking myself and then I got these ideas that happiness was was maybe being famous or rich.

I was in a haze slick for decades. You know like trying to be an actor and a dancer. The reason I want to be a dancer, was because I watched females when they watched guys who moved well and they like guys who could move while so I'm like okay I'll be dancer. So New York City is the center of the dance world and so that's going to go so I came in New York City very quickly and on. I decided to go to the Alvin Ailey school, I got a scholarship there I was, was pretty good as whacked out flexible, which helps you know.

Then I talked with my primary ballet teacher who is David Howard and another mentor had name Hillary heart rate, and there like will we know Benjamin Mark Harvey over at Juilliard you know he's the director of the dance program and so they sent me over there got to meet him and I started doing the interview. You know the process that matriculate to Juilliard I was taking an adult ballet class at night because you need take professional classes during the day but if you're studying and you want to be the best to keep on taking classes all day long and so at night the adults came in and one was a doctor and she noticed this bulge from my neck and she said I you know want to come in for you now and come let me check that out for you and I laughed it off and said Lena like I'm have any money any money or any insurance and she said that. Don't worry about that.

I went to her hospital and chic somehow waved me through everything and I mean I just went in got a chest x-ray must out in a busy hospital with no insurance and no money and that night it was taking class and then the pianist stayed and played for me so I could do a like practicing. You know big movements and she came in with the big yellow envelope yelled as my chest x-ray and she said I think you better sit down and that's when I got my cancer diagnosis and she said were going tomorrow to Memorial.

I know someone at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.

She got me into the best hospital like in the country for cancer so I did 14 months of chemotherapy and lost all my hair was probably the happiest time of my life.

It might seem odd to be diagnosed with cancer and inhabit the happiest time of your life, but I didn't have to worry about becoming something about being successful.

You know that pressure you know what one must present you with my life whom I suppose make happy to worry about any of that. I just had to go to sleep at night and get better.

And all that's what everyone told me the doctors like you just get better and that mean like really simple. All the nurses and doctors knew me. Cheers like everyone knows your name is a happy time in my life. It was a lot different now is like from having everyone care about you to taking SSI, you know, because I was disabled due to my treatment and I'm still getting some checks for and one of my friends says helped you take that money look at you, you look like you can work any shame to me and he was right now like I could work and so the next interview at the office.

When ask you like are you feeling bad yellow bubble. How do you feel the guy sort of encourage me know to let keep the checks coming in. All he says you're only like a few months out from cancer treatment. In 19 I said no like I don't want my checks I can work and he was in disbelief but in disbelief but my friends had shamed me and so I took myself off SSI and that's the contrast of like everyone caring for you to having like your friends and your lazy bomb you can't take money you can work when I left the hospital, but my doctor said you cannot because you took a cardio toxin is one of your chemotherapies. You cannot lift really really heavy weights and you cannot take drugs that accelerate your heart rate so I dislike myself so much that I joined CrossFit that's weightlifting for crazy people, and I became a cocaine addict. So that's how much I love myself for a lot of people at something really terrible happens, like to get a DUI in the jail for the first time in a shocked out of it like some one moment happens to them. For me it wasn't like that.

It was just like it one point I just thought to myself there's nothing left of me like I'm just a tumbleweed now is blowing when there's nothing left to me and I knew it was time to quit. There's a reason people don't quit even though they are ruining our lives and are killing themselves. It's not easy to quit the first 90 days was the hardest thing I've ever done going 90 days will judge all. I always thought like you see people accept awards or whatever or talk about their career and how like they worked so hard and you know they did a lot on their own level of law that wouldn't be what I say I would be saying like every step of the way someone help me and do anything you know it's like the Balaton, you know, the beauty of the Balaton which is a group of riders when you watch the Tour de France. It just pulls the people in the front do the work as they hit the wind so they're working hardest and they go into their tired and then the drift to the side and someone else takes the place and the company drift back to the know the back of the back of the pack than they rest their and everyone takes their turn.

No, like hitting the wind is people who will step up and help you and want nothing back from you and now I know the path forward is to always help others, and I'm not doing it to try to be nice because I'm not really a nice person. I'm quite a jerk sometimes but if you hold the door open for someone we help some with her with like a heavy load or something like that. Like you know you working on string summons like Starling something you help them for maybe five seconds or 10 seconds.

You forget your own problems in your own concerns and you help that person and that person forgets their own problems and they there like some company and both of you are just in the moment and not in your own head. Think about yourself being alone here in the moment with another human being through. Let's say a lifetime of messing up just face planting right to the pavement and really having a miserable life that I brought upon myself. I somehow retain the ability to learn from it. Like I learned from this and I've had fantasies before about being rich and famous and wearing nice clothes and having a nice car. You know what's not me.

I was able with God's grace to remember who I truly was at the core. I only made it out by letting other people help me and a beautiful job on the production by Madison and a special thanks to Ryan Stewart for bearing will bearing just about everything we talked about his early time struggles bar fights and of course arrests. That's a struggle when it starts hitting rest, you're in trouble. I was in a dark place drinking and simultaneously of this tremendous talent. You don't just stumble into Elven and truly people here been involved in the New York theater know what those institutions are.

This is the best best and there's this lady who notices something wrong and she's a doctor and as he said she just waved me through everything in the cancer diagnosis came in. He said it was the happiest time of his life as he was working on anything else being better and then of course she just kept going until he hit bottom and that's what happened. And then the pathway back serving others. Getting out of yourself in great people around you. We love to tell stories of hope like this redemption like this and God's grace is said in the end and feeling gratitude for who you are and where you are in life.

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