| Advertising executive Earl Cole is heading home | | | | left hip. He is also lauded as the first |
| with a bang. However, it isn't just the fact that he | | | | African-American male to win the competition. |
| won the latest season of Survivor, but the way | | | | Cole 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 a | | | | community in a 'Day of Celebration' at the Kansas |
| reputation for integrity, guts, skill, and just the | | | | Speedway. Not only is the event to celebrate his |
| right amount of smarts. His alliance with fellow | | | | victory, but also to bring attention to the |
| contestant Yau-Man Chan strongly endured in a | | | | charitable organization he runs, the Earl Cole Fund |
| remarkable display of honorable partnership right | | | | for Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease. He hopes to |
| up to the final four, proving that shady and | | | | garner support for fellow sufferers of the illness, |
| underhanded backstabbing didn't always have to | | | | of which he has already been treated and healed |
| be a necessity for coming out on top. At the | | | | at the University of Kansas Hospital. |
| very end, the other contenders affirmed the | | | | Aside from getting to rub shoulders with Cole |
| mettle and respect he'd worked hard to earn - he | | | | himself in a meet-and-greet autograph session, |
| was unanimously voted by the jury to become | | | | people who come will enjoy festive performances |
| the series' 14th Sole Survivor, and the winner of | | | | by 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 considering | | | | will be set to entertain younger audiences, along |
| that he suffered from Legg-Calve-Perthes | | | | with other variety shows for everyone's |
| syndrome, a degenerative disease affecting his | | | | enjoyment. |