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Happiness is ...

BY MELODY VALLIEU Staff Writer mvallieu@civitasmedia.com Happiness is … Hallmark Keepsake ornaments.

And, people throughout the area can get happy beginning July 12 during Readmore Hallmark’s annual ornament release party that begins at 11:30 p.m. July 12, according to manager Mary Beth Barhorst.

Barhorst said approximately 300 ornaments will be available for pur-

chase in 2103, and about 60 percent of them will be available for viewing — and purchasing — at the special reveal event from 11:30 p.m. July 12 to 1:30 a.m. July 13. The event will be a celebration of the release of the ornaments with pizza, snacks, pop and a cupcake surprise, said Barhorst, who has managed the store since it opened nine years ago.

The event also will help mark the 40th year of the Keepsake ornament line being introduced at Hallmark.

“So, it’s like a big birthday party, too,” Barhorst said.

Barhorst said the unveiling will include drawings for four $10 and four $40 gift certificates and everyone who spends $20 will receive a special birthday gift.

Barhorst said this is a special time for Hallmark employees and those who collect the tree embellishments.

“This is the equivalent to us as Black Friday is to other retailers,” Barhorst said. “This is what we look forward to every year.”

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Hallmark any official purchases up until midnight, participants can browse the ornaments and the rest of the store, have something to eat and enjoy each other’s company until then.

“It’s just something we look forward to and we can get loose,” she said. “We just kind of party until we can ring the first sale up.”

Barhorst said usually about 60 guests attend the annual event, and about 45 people are usually in line outside the store by 11:15 p.m. She said one of the first customers in line and into the store gets to do the big unveiling and uncover the large display of ornaments each year.

A sidewalk sale also will be held in conjunction with the ornament release and will begin Thursday night and continue through the weekend. There are six new series this year, including the “Happiness Is Peanuts All Year Long” series, which features a new ornament for every month of the year. The ornaments feature many of the different Peanuts characters, including Linus, Sally, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Pig Pen, Charlie Brown and of course, the world’s favorite dog, Snoopy.

The Frosty Friends series — which features whimsical penguins — also will be celebrating its 34th year in the collection. Barhorst said she knows of people who have every one of them.

“People say collecting is lost. But, you can pass them down from generation to generation and

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Manager Mary Beth Barhorst put together one of Hallmark Keepsake’s newest ornament series, Happiness Is Peanuts All Year Long. The series, along with many others, will be unveiled this weekend. they can take them with them when they leave home,” she said.

Memories of yesteryear also will be featured this year,

including a Radio Flyer wagon ornament and even the box of 64 Crayola crayons will be represented.

To help the United

Way with their Stuff the Bus program that helps underprivileged children with much needed school supplies, Barhorst is asking par-

ticipants to bring items to donate to the program. For every school supply brought to the unveiling event, participants will receive a $1 Readmore Buck, up to $5. Not more than two of any one item will be recognized for the Readmore Buck rewards.

Everyone that brings in five items also will be entered into a drawing to win a 64 Crayola crayons ornament, according to Barhorst.

Barhorst said 2012 was the last year for Barbie, and she was nervous about that fact, but that the new Dreambook focuses on plenty of princesses and makes up for Barbie.

“The ornament book to me is like the Sears Wish Book from my younger days,” said Barhorst, who said the rest of the Hallmark line of ornaments will come out in October, with a few others revealed in December.

From cows to squirrels, our animal friends also will have quite a presence in this year’s collection, said Barhorst, who said the Jingle Frogs ornaments is one of her favorites. The family pets, including cats and dogs, will have their own ornaments this year to dedeck the holiday tree.

Musical and animated ornaments — while more expensive — also are extremely popular, she said. She said she generally sells out of them quickly.

Cherished moments in life, from remembering a loved one, to celebrating the birth of a child also can be remembered by purchasing a Hallmark tree

adornment. Religious ornaments in celebration of the season also will be available, along with a United We Stand ornament that celebrates our military personnel.

Of course, tree trimming staples — such as Mickey, Minnie, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger also will again have their place on the tree.

Movie characters from Toy Story’s Buzz to Turbo from the new Disney movie will be offered, along with favorite cartoon characters such as Scooby Doo, Kermit the Frog and Tweety Bird.

For the athletes in the house, personalizable ornaments for soccer, baseball, football and basketball are available. Several professional athletes also are recognized on 2013 ornaments.

Everything else imaginable, from superheroes, to camping, to motorcycles and firetrucks have their own ornaments, according to Barhorst. She said there is just an ornament to represent everything imaginable.

“And, all of the ornaments have memories and traditions that can be passed on,” Barhorst said.

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GET UP & GO Rhythm Series continues TROY — The Troy Summer Music Series continues with the eclectic sounds of This Side Up on Friday at 7:30 p.m. on Prouty Plaza in downtown Troy. Get ready to sing and dance the night away as the band performs fan favorite hits that span several decades.

This Side Up is presented

by Troy Main Street and is free to the public. For more information visit www.troymainstreet.org or by calling (937) 3395455.

Higgins Madewell to perform TROY — The TroyHayner Cultural Center will host the new Lucky Lemonade Music series Tuesdays in July this summer. Concerts will begin at 7:30 p.m. with regional musicians playing a variety of music from jazz to folk. Acts include the warm country sounds of Higgins Madewell July 16 and the folksy sounds of Anna and Milovan and jazz guitarist Jimmy Felts.

Contemporary, bluegrass slated TROY — The Nightflyer band will rock the square at 7:30 p.m. July 19 for the Downtown Troy

Summer Music on the Square series. The newly formed group of experienced professionals from Southwestern Ohio plays a hard driving mix of contemporary and traditional bluegrass. The band’s lead singer and guitarist is Richard Propps, most recently from the group Blue Storm. Rick Hayes is on mandolin and the stand-up bassist is Tony Kakaris, who also lends his baritone to the vocals.

Tim Jackson adds spice to the mix with his fiery dobro performances.

Rounding out the sound is Ronnie Stewart contributing killer banjo and sweet lyrical tenor and lead vocals. These musicians promise to bring the sweet seasoned sounds of traditional bluegrass as well as a hard driving mix of contemporary country music.

Big-band sound set for Prouty TROY — The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. July 26 at Prouty Plaza. The concert is free and open to the public. Started in 1938, the 16-piece orchestra is complete with saxophone harmonies, growling trumpets and oo -ah trumpets, too. There will be a dance floor for the

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Eye candy Nature photography TROY — Come explore the amazing photography of Columbus native, Tom Arbour. Tom is a botanist with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and his exhibit will feature the plants, landscapes and wildlife of Ohio. Tom shows his passion for all of Ohio’s natural landscapes in his blog, ohionatureblog.com. The exhibit is displayed in the Heidelberg Auditorium and will be open during regular business hours through Sept. 15. Proceeds from the sale of these photographs will support BNC’s mission to promote wildlife conservation. Free with admission to the center.

Art show coming to West Milton WEST MILTON — The sixth annual art show will take place at Hoffman United Methodist Church, July 12-14. The show will be in the activity center located at 201 S. Main St. (one block west of St. Rt. 48). It is a non-juried show.

There is no admittance charge and it is open to the public. The purpose of the show is to provide a showcase for area talent of all ages. There will be more than 20 participants from Milton, Tipp, Troy, Fletcher, Arcanum, Casstown, Englewood, Ludlow Falls, Phillipsburg, Dayton and Miamisburg.

A silent auction, featuring pieces provided by the artists, will begin during the preview party on

Friday evening and conclude at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Friday evening activities are 6:30-8:30 p.m. and are also open to the public.

Some of the artists will be present to discuss their work. Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday hours are 11-3:30 p.m. Cash awards totalling $2000 will be presented again this year, thanks to a generous contribution by Bill Netzley of Netzley Roofing. People’s choice voting will determine 10 winners, all of whom will receive prize money. Winners will be announced and awards presented at 2:45 p.m.

Sunday, July 14. Some pieces by participating artists may be available for purchase. All sales will be handled directly between the artist and the prospective buyer.

For further information call Cheryl at 937698-7030. Information is also available at: HoffmanUMC.org.

Sports-theme exhibitions DAYTON — The Dayton Art Institute is presenting a pair of sports-themed exhibitions, “Andy Warhol: Athletes” and “The Art of Sport: Highlights from the Collection of the Dayton Art Institute,” both on view through Sept. 1.

• Andy Warhol: Athletes It was the mid-1970s, and Studio 54 was in full swing when art collector Richard Weisman commissioned his friend Andy Warhol to paint the portraits of several top athletes of the day. At first Warhol was unfamiliar with the sports stars but characteristic of his obsession with fame he re-

called: The resulting group of 10 silk-screen paintings from 1978 present some of the most influential sports stars of the era, including boxer Muhammad Ali, football’s O.J. Simpson, ice skater Dorothy Hamill, basketball’s Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, golfer Jack Nicklaus, ice hockey’s Rod Gilbert, tennis’ Chris Evert, horse racer Willie Shoemaker, baseball’s Tom Seaver and soccer’s Pelé.

• The Art of Sport: Highlights from the Collection of the Dayton Art Institute The theme of sports is ubiquitous in art, and has occupied artists from ancient times to the present.

This exhibition features more than 100 examples of how that theme is manifest in some of the Dayton Art Institute’s finest treasures. The objects on display represent a widerange of media including painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media, and the exhibition is sure to delight sports, and art lovers of all ages.

Dayton Art Institute is located at 456 Belmonte Park North, Dayton.

For more information, visit http://www.daytonartinstitute.org.

DAI partners with DVAC DAYTON — The Dayton Art Institute has partnered with the Dayton Visual Arts Center to present the exhibition Reinvention Portraits: Photographs by Julia Reichert & Steven Bognar and the Reinvention Collaborative, on view through Sept. 1 at the museum.

Last summer, an award-winning team of

Dayton filmmakers and WYSO 91.3 public radio staffers, led by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, walked more than a dozen Dayton neighborhoods.

Spending time primarily in Belmont, Residence Park, South Park and Twin Towers, they met people on their porches, in their driveways, walking their dogs, and in parks with their families. They captured hundreds of hours of video and thousands of images of great, funny, surprising and inspiring stories of adversity, resilience and reinvention.

The portraits featured in the upcoming exhibition, taken by the eightmember Reinvention Collaborative of Steven Bognar, Liz Cambron, Emily Evans, Megan Hague, Shawndra Jones, Emily McCord, Julia Reichert and Kyle Wilkinson, along with colorist Chase Whiteside, are a selection curated by Eva Buttacavoli, executive director at DVAC. Reinvention Portraits is part of a collaboration between DVAC and The Dayton Art Institute, intended to bring a fresh look at the art happening in our community.

Family fun Canoe float TROY — The Miami County Park District will hold a canoe float at 9 a.m. July 12. The float departs from Treasure Island in Troy. Registration is required. A nonrefundable $5 per paddler fee is due at time of registration. Registration forms can be accessed at www.miamicountyparks.c om.

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July 20 at Aullwood Farm, 9101 Frederick Pike, Dayton. Meet Aullwood’s turkeys and examine the yolk of a chicken’s egg. • Upcoming events Author to speakBEAVERCREEK — Barnes & Noble on Towne Drive in Beavercreek will host Ohio author Doris Gaines Rapp at 1 p.m.

July 20. Rapp will be discussing her book “Escape from the Belfry.� “Escape from the Belfry,� is a young adult novel for all ages set in 1945.

The horrible war that wrapped the world in torment has come to an endyet the torment of young Adam Shoemaker lives on.

His father never came back from battle, and his mother is in the hospital.

Homeless, Adam seeks shelter in the Cranberry Street belfry ‌ but Adam is not alone. Strange spirits inhabit the belfry. One spirit seems to wish good on others, while demonic shadows mean only harm.

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Rapp is a Fairmont High School graduate and she also taught at Orchard Park Elementary School in Kettering. Rapp is an author, psychologist, speaker, blogger, wife and

mother.

International dinner hosted with festival TROY — The Hayner Center is hosting the Festival of Nation’s International Dinner A Taste of Germany at 6 p.m. July 21.

Plan on a delightful evening: experiencing the culture of the country of Germany with food, music and education.

Enjoy a hearty Bavarian cuisine dinner. The menu will include tomato salad, sauerbraten, red cabbage and boiled potatoes. Apple cake and coffee will be served after the entertainment.

The Caroline in Troy will be preparing the meal based on the German delegation’s recipes.

Immediately following dinner will be lively Ger-

man music, polkas to waltzes, presented by The Chris Weiss Polka Variety Band. This central Ohio three-piece band features the concertina banjo, gui-

tar and drums.

Invitations and RSVPs card, are available to download at our website: www.troyhayner.org., or call Hayner at (937) 3390457 to receive one by mailed, or stop by the Center to pick one up.

The cost of the evening is $27 per person. Paid reservations need to be sent to the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center at 301 W. Main St., Troy, Ohio 45373 by July 10. Seating is limited to 100.

Eddie Money to perform PIQUA — The Spectacular Summer Cruise-In and Concert will be offered free from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Aug. 3 at the Miami Valley Centre Mall, Piqua. The first 500 cars will receive a dash plaques and trophies and door prizes will be awarded. Lives bands will perform throughout the day with Eddie Money performing at 8:30 p.m.

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Discovery Days TROY — Family fun begins with BNC’s Family Discovery Days from 2-4 p.m. July 13 for hands-on fun for all ages, including adults. Staff will be bringing nets out to catch dragonflies, going to the creek and searching for crayfish and learning to use binoculars as participants search for backyard birds, all with the help of a BNC naturalist. Each program will include something cool you can take home to remember all you’ve learned. Visit www.bruknernaturecenter.com for more information. Registration preferred, but not required. Free for BNC members, non-member admission fee is $2.50 per person or $10 per family.

TROY — The Miami County Park District VIPs will hold their “Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social� from 2-4 p.m. July 14 at Lost Creek Reserve, 2385 E. State Route 41, east of Troy. The VIPs will be serving up ice cream for all. Come and relax in the park, play some oldfashioned lawn games such as badminton, croquet and maybe even a round of corn hole. Meet in the parking lot. Register for the program online at www.miamicountyparks, email to register@miamicountyparks.co m or call (937) 335-6273, Ext. 104.

Car, bike show PLEASANT HILL — A classic car and bike show and family fun day will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

July 20 at Pleasant Hill Church of the Brethren.

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‘The Lone Ranger’ doesn’t utilize Depp’s talents • “The Lone Ranger” — There’s a limit, it turns out, to how much Johnny Depp and a bucket of makeup can accomplish. Gore Verbinski’s flamboyant re-imagination of the hokey long-running radio show and ’50s cowboy TV series, Depp eagerly attempts to recreate the extravagant magic of his similarly farcical Jack Sparrow of Verbinski’s “Pirates of the Caribbean.”

One would think that a so-costumed Depp careening through the Old West with Buster Keaton aplomb would make “The Lone Ranger,” at worst, entertaining.

But Verbinski’s film, stretching hard to both reinvent an out-of-date brand and breathe new life in the Western with a desperate onslaught of bloated set pieces, is a poor locomotive for Depp’s eccentric theatrics.

For two hours, the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced “Lone Ranger” inflates, subverts and distorts the conventions of the Western until, in an interminable climax set to the William Tell Overture, the big-budget spectacle finally, exhaustingly collapses in a

scrap heap of train wreckage.

A talented filmmaker of great excess, Verbinski’s ricocheting whimsy here runs off the rails.

Flashback-heavy plot mechanics, occasionally grim violence (bullets land in bodies with the loudest of thwacks, a heart gets eaten) and surrealistic comedy add up to a confused tone that seems uncertain exactly how to position Depp’s Tonto in the movie, to say nothing of Armie Hammer’s wayward Lone Ranger.

When Verbinski was last directing and Depp was a cartoon lizard, they crafted a far better Western in “Rango.” PG13 for sequences of intense action and violence, and some suggestive material.

Running time: 149 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

• “The Way, Way Back” — There’s something inherently formulaic about summer coming-of-age movies.

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No fewer than 16 New Mexico locations from Shiprock to Angel Fire to Valles Caldera were used in the filming.

Luckily, the film, written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash screenplay Oscar winners for “The Descendants” is done with enough skill and delicacy that its adherence to formula doesn’t matter so much.

Fourteen-year-old Duncan (newcomer Liam James) reluctantly heads for a beach vacation with divorced mom Pam (Toni Collette) and her boyfriend, Trent, an unlikable character played by the likable Steve Carell.

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Home and Away with Dana Wolfe Take advantage of the fact cherries are now in season I love cherries!

This is one fruit that I can eat incorporated into any meal. I believe that addiction came from that Thank You brand cherry pie filling (in the can) from my youth.

My Mom would always let me have the one cherry left with all that wonderful filling wrapped around it. We had a couple of cherry trees in our orchard that my Dad guarded daily until they were picked. Why? Because the blackbirds loved his cherries, too! He would sit on the front porch of our home with a BB Gun and when they landed on the netted cherry trees he would fire warning shots. They hated him!

Once we got them picked, Mom would stand for hours with a sink full of little sour red cherries, pitting them to make pies.

It was a long process, but boy were those pies delicious.

My next love of cherries came when my sister moved to Seattle, Wash., where the chocolate covered cherries are out of this world! We would get a box of them in the mail, and 24 hours later they were history.

The bing cherries that come to our local grocery stores in the spring time are some of my favorites as well. I will buy bags of them until they are gone.

But really, where and how are the proper way to dispose of the pits? Do you just stand and hold them in your hand? If you have a great idea for this … please let me know!

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Cherries can be used in so many different ways.

Maybe George Washington knew something that we didn’t know about cutting down the cherry tree. Never tell lie, and always bake cherry pie.

Cherry facts: • Cherries are grown in 20 countries worldwide.

The United States grows more than 600 million pounds of cherries annually.

• Most of the cherries grown are canned or frozen.

• It is believed that birds brought cherry pits to Europe from Asia Minor.

• Europeans enjoy a chilled cherry soup as a

summertime treat.

• French colonists from Normandy brought cherry pits to the New World, which they planted along the Saint Lawrence River and throughout the Great Lakes area.

• Sweet cherries are primarily grown on the West coast, while sour cherries are grown in the Great Lakes region, in New England and the Great Plains.

• Cherries should be stored in the refrigerator with as much humidity as possible. Under these conditions, they will keep for about four days.

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Annual Civil War encampment weekend returns MENTOR — James A. Garfield National Historic Site will host its fourth annual Civil War encampment weekend 19-21.

Many popular reenactor groups and displays will return, and a number of new ones will participate as well.

The event kicks off on Friday evening, July 19 at 7 p.m. with a free public symposium presented by the Northeast Ohio Civil War Round Table.

The evening will feature talks by two of the group’s members: Richard Muny will discuss Civil War weaponry; and Ted Karle will speak on the subject of “Little Round Top at Gettysburg Revisited.” This event will begin at 7 p.m. in the site’s visitor center auditorium.

The encampment will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 2021. Several reenactor units will be present, including: the 7th, 8th, 14th, 41st and 66th Ohio; and the Army of the Shenandoah Confederate brigade. A group of “Lincoln’s Generals” will also be on-site to talk about Union strategy. Reenactors will portray the following Union officers: Generals Garfield, McClellan, Rawlins, Gillmore, and McPherson;

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James A. Garfield National Historic Site will host its fourth annual Civil War encampment weekend 19-21.

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw; and Surgeon General Dr. Jonathan Letterman. Visitors can also meet and talk with “Abraham Lincoln” and “Frederick Douglass.” The

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event will feature reenactors portraying British military observers as well.

Civil War music will also be part of the event.

The Camp Chase Fife and

Drums, the best military band in the Midwest, will return to James A. Garfield National Historic Site after thrilling the crowd at last year’s encampment. A young reen-

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In the Hock’s Pharmacy advertorial that ran in the July 3 edition of in75, it should have said that customers will receive a $5 gas card for each new or transferred prescription — up to five — they bring to the new Tipp City Hock’s location, excluding prescriptions transferred from the Vandalia store.

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actor will also portray Johnny Clem, the famed “drummer boy of Chickamauga.” The Ohio National Guard will display Civil War-era uniforms in the site’s visitor center auditorium. Civil War telegraph demonstrations will be presented, and kids can try their hands at using the telegraph.

Kids will also enjoy the “Garfield min militia” at 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. They will be outfitted in Union army uniforms and taught the basics of marching and drilling.

Parents: this is a great photo opportunity. The

mini militia will also feature a scavenger hunt and free Civil War trading cards.

Limited parking is available at James A. Garfield National Historic Site. On July 20, overflow parking will be at Faith Lutheran Church, just east of the Garfield property. Additional overflow parking both days will be at Mentor Office Park, just a few blocks east of the Garfield site (across the street from Mentor Public Library).

A free shuttle will carry those parking at Mentor Office Park to and from James A. Garfield National Historic Site. All overflow parking on July 21 will be at Mentor Office Park. The free shuttle will be available on Sunday for those parking at Mentor Office Park.

James A. Garfield National Historic Site is located at 8095 Mentor Avenue (U.S. 20) in Mentor, Ohio, approximately 25 miles east of Cleveland. The site offers guided tours of the Garfield home, museum exhibits, and an introductory film.

The National Park Service completely restored the house in the late 1990s, making it one of the most impressive presidential homes preserved for the public.

For information call (440) 255-8722, write 8095 Mentor Avenue, Mentor, OH 44060, or visit www.nps.gov/jaga on the Internet. Find the site on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GarfieldNPS and follow the site on Twitter at www.twitter.com/GarfieldNPS. Read the site’s blog at www.garfieldnps.wordpress.com.

Save e the Date July 21-27 Shelby County Fair

2013

SPECIAL DAILY EVENTS Rides will open at 1 PM SUNDAY:

Industrial Day 1- special prices through participating Industries in and around Shelby County.

MONDAY:

Regular Admission Price - Rides will open at 4:00 P.M.

TUESDAY: Carload Night - Carload night includes entry to the fair and all rides for everyone in your vehicle for $30.00.

Carload night begins at 4:00 P.M. at Gate D Only. Carload night stamps must be purchased by 9:00 P.M. WEDNESDAY: Industrial Day 2- special prices through participating Industries in and around Shelby County. Wrist Bands must be purchased at these Industries only for $7.00 and admits one person and ride all day.

THURSDAY: Kid‛s Day - Kid‛s day admission and ride special - Everyone sixteen and under will be admitted free until noon - with special rides bands to be purchased by 5:00 P.M. for $7.00 at Michael‛s Amusements ticket booths.

FRIDAY:

Best One Tire/Sidney Tire at the Fair - Special priced wrist bands at $7.00 can be purchased at either location.

SATURDAY: Regular Admission Price

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