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Disney workers awarded more than $433K in back pay

By Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel Walt Disney Parks and Resorts has agreed to pay almost half a million dollars in back pay to employees as a result of violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday. An agency investigation revealed that inventory control...
August 26th, 2010 | Cast Members, Featured | Read More

Harrison ‘Buzz’ Price, engineer who advised Disney on park locations, dies at 89

By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Harrison “Buzz” Price, an engineer turned theme-park strategist whose research led Walt Disney to place Magic Kingdoms in Anaheim, Calif., and Orlando, has died. He was 89. Price died Sunday of chronic anemia at Mount San Antonio Gardens’...
August 16th, 2010 | Cast Members | Read More

Disney Cruise: Good service except for some good laughs

(Theme Park Ranger Matt Palm is beating the end-of-summer blues by reminiscing about his Disney Cruise Line vacation earlier this year.) The 'Beauty & the Beast' wall at Lumiere's restaurant aboard the Disney Magic. Disney is known far and wide for its level of service,  in its theme...
August 10th, 2010 | Cast Members, Disney Cruise Line, Featured, Matt Palm | Read More

A more casual look for Minnie Mouse and her friends?

By Jason Garcia, Orlando Sentinel Mickey Mouse is finally easing up on his ladies. In a seismic shift that some employees describe as the biggest fashion shake-up at Central Florida’s largest employer since men were permitted to grow mustaches, Walt Disney World has decided to allow female employees...
June 15th, 2010 | Cast Members, Featured | Read More

Lake County man’s magical career included encounters with Walt Disney

By Earl Watson, Special to the Orlando Sentinel Lee Biggins’ third day on the job as a stage worker at Disney studios found him seated in a mock-up miniature train being designed to transport visitors around Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. There was another passenger seated across from Biggins: Walt...
May 25th, 2010 | Cast Members, Featured | Read More

Disney gave less cash but more labor to charities in 2009

With a little help from Mickey Mouse, Chicago residents (from left) Danielle Rub, Dwayne Gibson and Marissa Sproul begin a volunteer project Sept. 29, 2009 at the Bethune School of Excellence in Chicago. (Photo by Gene Duncan/Walt Disney World) Walt Disney World made $28.5 million worth of charitable...
April 19th, 2010 | Cast Members, Community, Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Orlando actor stars in national Disney tour

The Sentinel’s Matt Palm spoke with Orlando actor Keith Kirkwood, who is singing, dancing and, well, ticking as Cogsworth in the new Beauty and the Beast tour crisscrossing the country. You can read the interview by clicking here. Also, check out a photo gallery of the show by clicking here.
April 18th, 2010 | Cast Members, Featured, Matt Palm, Things to do | Read More

Disney’s Imagineers rethink objects into works of art

Architect Gary Hoffman re-imagined vertical blinds into a lamp that looks like a living creature. An activity within the halls of Walt Disney Imagineering combines artistic endeavors, being green and creative stretching this month. The third annual WDI Green Art Show shows off creative expression of...
April 15th, 2010 | Cast Members, Dewayne Bevil, Featured, Imagineering | Read More

Hollywood Studios dancer keeps the beat without benefit of sound

Allison Becker began her Disney World career in January. Allison Becker has been dancing since she was 4. She has been deaf since she was 16 months old. Today, the 22-year-old Buffalo, N.Y., native is a dancer at Walt Disney World. She performs in the “High School Music 3″ production and...
March 17th, 2010 | Cast Members, Dewayne Bevil, Featured | Read More
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