 and welcome to the Moscow L.A.'s Great Russian Left Cracker, the benefit for the Sharon S. Richardson Community Hospice. My name is Linda Cates. I'm the Development and Communications Director at Hospice. A few announcements and some recognition this evening before we've been to our show. We appreciate what it took for you to get here this evening in the face of all of those snowboard houses. I saw the dancers backstage. There's amazing talent here this evening. The performance will be well worth your efforts. The two gentlemen on stage with me were tirelessly on behalf of our hospice organization, usually behind the scenes. Steve Meyer, our development chair, and is also the Accounting Director at Plastics Engineering Company in Sheboygan. Steve led the charge this year to raise over $400,000 for our patient care fund. This fund allows us to serve families with hospice and county-to-care services, regardless of their ability to pay. Steve, you've done a great job. We appreciate all of your efforts and leadership. I'd like to introduce to you the same name as Eric Touchlock. He is the CEO of Sabre Corp. Eric, like Steve, has been with us from the very beginning. Eric. Support. It's the only hospice in the central Lakeshore area. Thank you so much for your support. I have a chance to partner with you on behalf of our hospice organization. Our way of sharing the holiday spirit is to provide the holiday life display at our hospice grounds. We're located on Highway 28 to start San Sheboygan Falls. The lights will be on until midnight tonight in celebration of the valet. Every evening through December, they will blow from 5 until 8 p.m. In addition, for this evening only, the Highland House has agreed to stay open to serve dinner until 10.30. They have offered a 20% discount on all food with a valet ticket, along with having a gift basket waffles and a donation of $1 to our hospice for every customer that was in their restaurant today. The participation of our youth is always a welcome gift. We have the support of two local groups to perform related things and support the valet. Performance from Jessica's School of Dance will be with us this evening. And we have some of the singers from the Hohensgrohe fire. The entire fire will be performing right here on Sunday, December 13th at 4 p.m. with the Hohensgrohe band. Lots of proud human members in the audience and rightly so. Please want to check out that show and the other holiday shows here at the Wild Center. We are honored to work with General Manager Randy Schwerer and his team. The Wild Center was recently named one of our community partners for a relationship that we very much enjoy. Last but not least, this evening, we are proud to recognize General Ross Taylor, the sponsor, Sargento. Sargento and the Gentine family are long-term friends in the Richardson Hospice. They supported us during our building campaign. Many organizations in this region have done that as we have from the companies we've been to give back to their community. The Gentine is with us this evening to accept recognition as the Sponsoring Organization is the President and Chief Customer Officer at Sargento. Let's welcome Randy and the others at Sargento who have made it possible for us to provide the priceless gift of hospice through your generosity. We're so privileged to receive your support. To sponsor this evening's event with the Moscow Ballet performing the Nutcracker. I'm also very happy to see the game of people here in the auditorium even with the inclement, whether showing your support for the sharing of Sargento Richardson Hospice Center. Unfortunately, I've had the opportunity to know a lot of employees as well as friends who have utilized the services of the center. The one thing that they all tell me time and time again is that that center we should be very proud and thankful for having a facility like that within our community. And when you think back to Sharon who was battling cancer and her and her husband Joe having the vision and the dream to create and build at some point the hospice center for this community to utilize and benefit from. And once she had passed away in May in 2004 her husband Joe took on the initiative to fulfill that dream and that vision and with the support the unwavering support of this community we were able to build in honor of Sharon the Sharon S. Richardson Community Hospice Center. And I think it's tokens like that and things like that that make this community a great community to be in. It makes us feel good as a company as well as individuals to contribute back our success as a community. And I think it's something that all of you here in this room should also feel very thankful that you're a part of community a community that we're in and that you're able to contribute what you're able to. So I think you have two things and that first thing is remember to continue on building upon that vision and that dream that Sharon had in your support of the Sharon Richardson Hospice Center. I'd also like to wish you all a very merry, merry Christmas and I also hope you enjoy the performance. Thank you. Pleasure to present Jay Account who will introduce the valet. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor and privilege to introduce to you this evening the Moscow Valet performing the great Russian Nutcracker.