Survivor: a Hero's Homecoming

Advertising executive Earl Cole is heading homeleft hip. He is also lauded as the first
with a bang. However, it isn't just the fact that heAfrican-American male to win the competition.
won the latest season of Survivor, but the wayCole is coming home to a heroes' welcome, as he
that he prevailed which impressed his peers.gets set to party hard with his hometown
Throughout the competition, he maintained acommunity in a 'Day of Celebration' at the Kansas
reputation for integrity, guts, skill, and just theSpeedway. Not only is the event to celebrate his
right amount of smarts. His alliance with fellowvictory, but also to bring attention to the
contestant Yau-Man Chan strongly endured in acharitable organization he runs, the Earl Cole Fund
remarkable display of honorable partnership rightfor Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease. He hopes to
up to the final four, proving that shady andgarner support for fellow sufferers of the illness,
underhanded backstabbing didn't always have toof which he has already been treated and healed
be a necessity for coming out on top. At theat the University of Kansas Hospital.
very end, the other contenders affirmed theAside from getting to rub shoulders with Cole
mettle and respect he'd worked hard to earn - hehimself in a meet-and-greet autograph session,
was unanimously voted by the jury to becomepeople who come will enjoy festive performances
the series' 14th Sole Survivor, and the winner ofby a gymnastics troupe, the local high school
one million dollars.band, and even a youth jazz group. Even clowns
It is arguably a hell of a feat, especially consideringwill be set to entertain younger audiences, along
that he suffered from Legg-Calve-Pertheswith other variety shows for everyone's
syndrome, a degenerative disease affecting hisenjoyment.