<div class="captionImage center" style="width: 451px;"><img class="center" src="http://www.thestanley.org/assets/Joe-Marino.jpg" width="451" height="592" alt="" title=""/><p class="caption"><strong>Joe Marino, City of Utica Councilman, 4th Ward</strong></p></div><p>My fondest memories of the Stanley were, every year as a kid around Christmas time, attending General Herkimer Elementary School in Utica, getting to get on a huge yellow school bus and going to see the annual performance of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite. It was the highlight of the season for me and now, I am so grateful that I get to carry that tradition on by bringing my own children almost 30 years later, thanks to the hard work of the great people at the Stanley Theatre.</p>
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