Dancing is healthy!

Barb Walter

We want to thank the folks who held offices last year. Thank you to Randy Graboyes, Janet Geiger, Pat Preston and Sharon Greenman.

Mimi Mills, lifetime member of Danebo Circle 8, was admitted to Avamere Rehabilitation Center on Chambers Street following surgery on her heel at Riverbend Hospital. I go see her often. Mimi is very tired from physical therapy and is itching to go home. That's always a good sign.

We're discovered that Don Anderson, former member of Danebo Circle 8, is at the same rehabilitation center right across the hall from Mimi. We all paid him a visit today. Don had surgery on his foot as well. Small world. We pray that Mimi and Don heal quickly and are both on their feet soon.

Keep on dancin'

Christina Corelli

Marguerite Zolman

We look forward to having Kris Jensen, national caller from Albuquerque, back with us in March. Kris's brother, Kurt and his wife, Lorna, are members of Spin Cycle Squares.

Spin Cycle Squares is sponsoring Dan Nordbye, national caller from Mesa, Arizona on April 12, a Tuesday. Pre-Rounds at 7:30 will be cued by Christina Corelli. The mainstream dance with plus tips will run from 8:00 - 10-:30 with Dan. Please plan on joining us for this special dance.

We continue to dance all levels from 5:30 - 8:00 most Sundays in Hall A at the hall in Sprngfield. We encourage you to join us. Please call Tim at 541-988-0399 or our president, David at 541-520-7311 to make sure we are dancing. We rarely go dark, but you never know.

Our hall has a cushioned wood floor for your dancing ease and pleasure.

Happy dancing!

Christina Corelli

Our club gained seven new members when we held graduation at our February dance.

Please note that our club is selling our dance trailer and we are offering it to square dance clubs first. More details will be available soon. Also, we voted to go dark for the months of June, July and August this year. We will be doing a lot of visiting during that time so watch for us! Carmen Rost

We're looking forward to our coast trip at Gleneden Beach Community Club and dancing both Friday and Saturday nights, March 11 and 12... We want to mention again that all are welcome! This has been a long standing tradition for the Corvallis Squares. It's been fun to have visitors at this dance in past years, including folks from the former Toledo 49ers.

We've decided to go dark the fourth Saturday in March since it's the night before Easter. We'll be back in April with our regular dance nights! Karen Karplus

Many of our club members attended the Mid Winter Festival in Albany. The club had a dinner together on Saturday Night at Pop's Branding Iron.

A slate of officers has been nominated and elected for the next year. See you in a square! Marilyn York

We had six couples in the Mid-Winter Showcase of Rounds. Our instructor, Cheryl, stood by as we performed first on the program. We had one member missing due to illness, so Cheryl’s husband filled in for him. I personally think we did pretty well.

We planned a Valentine’s Dance on February 11, which will be over by the time you read this. Hope we had fun. Were you there?

Our summer season will be Tango to keep us busy during convention, festival, and various educational seminars that people will be attending in June, July and August.

We dance on Thursdays at the SSDC, so come and join us as we progress through Cheryl’s song list. Marilyn Schmit

We are still recuperating from the excellent time had by everyone at the Mid-Winter Festival with great dancing and loads of fellowship. It was wonderful to catch up with dancers from all over Oregon and Washington!

We are dancing on March 4 and March 18 at the Salem Square Dance Center. Pre-Rounds are at 7:00 pm, Plus at 7:30 pm, and Mainstream with Rounds at 8:00 pm. Also, mark your calendars for the Salem Swingin' Stars Golden Anniversary Dance on April 15! Come help celebrate 50 years of dancing. Randy Dibble will be calling and Jeanine Norden cueing. Look for the flyer for more information. See you on the dance floor. Sheila Machado

We graduated five students just before Mid-Winter and all of them joined the club. Three of them also attended Mid-Winter. The Silver Dragons & Silver Knights did a demo at Mid-Winter on Friday evening. We hope you were able to watch the kids.

We have about two squares going to Canada for the Pacific Northwest Teen Square Dance Festival in May. We are about halfway to our fundraising goal for the year. We are still selling festival pins and our raffle tickets. We have our Fundraising Dance on Sunday March 6 and we will draw our raffle winners there. We will also have a silent auction and will do a demo during the afternoon. Please check out our flyer and we hope to see you there. Petrina Buchheit

In February we are planning our annual Chocolate dance that is always a "treat" and Chinese New Year dance. In April we will have our Birthday dance, so look for a flyer soon.

We are starting lessons again in February and hope to have a new batch of dancers ready for the activity. Come join us at one of our dances, you will be glad you did....Sandy

Come join us on Friday February 26 for our Anniversary Dance. We'll have a half hour of plus beginning at 7:30 and then from 8:00 till 10:30 we'll dance mainstream and rounds. Also, a shout out to the members and guests who made our Sweetheart Dance so much fun. Thanks! Perrin Damon

On Sunday January 24, we held graduation. Nine dancers graduated: six round

dancers and three square dancers were honored. Some of the students ordered five boxes of pizza which were enjoyed and appreciated by all.

During the Mid-Winter dance in Albany, a number of the Willamette Squares members were represented. We look forward to our regular dance in February with a sample of some chocolate Valentine treats, to celebrate Oregon's birthday, and to recognize present and past presidents' birthdays. Jodee Howard

We’ll also have Jim Hattrick, calling and cueing, on both the 9th and the 23rd.

And we’re going to start making our snacks garlic free. Our club Director of Oral Hygiene (Mac McGargle) tells us we need to be kissing sweet.

Come join our motley crew any Wednesday evening.

Lotta Fluff

March brings two dances - our workshop dance on 3/5 and our Honor the Irish dance on 3 / 19. I have been pleased with our workshop dances because we can identify moves we have difficulty with in both square dancing and round dancing and then have the opportunity to work on them so it makes things easier and smoother. It has been rather fun. Our Irish dance is always fun because we usually have a guest caller - Mike Holmes and we always have Irish Sundaes for break. Yum. If you don't know what an Irish Sunday is, come to the dance To honor the wearing of the green and find out. See you in a square!

Debbie Broers

Spring is time for the Country Cut-Ups to clean out their closets, attics, basements, or where ever those unused items are lurking. The Annual Barn Sale is coming up in April! Be sure to ask your friends and neighbors for donations, then invite to come shopping. This is one of major fundraisers to support the Barn overhead. March also brings our election of officers. Consider whether it is time to step up and serve the club in a new way. We can all find ways to support this great organization and keep our favorite past time going.

We are having a mainstream class taught by Scott Zinser. The students are excited and eager to learn. The angels are doing a great job of showing up to support them. Keep up the good work. Anyone wanting to brush up on their dance skills can come join us at the Boring Barn 7:30 to 9:30 every Thursday evening.

Beverly De La Bruere

For many years, the Happy Hoppers have used the Clark County Square Dance Center as our venue for dances and lessons. We have recently been informed that the building and land have been put up for sale. It is sad to note that at some time in the future, we may lose this important resource. We are closely monitoring this situation and doing whatever we can to keep it from happening.

Our next club dine-out will be on February 24th at Gustav's on 164th Avenue at 5:30.

Twice a year, we have a used square dance clothing sale, which is always a popular event. It happens concurrently with our Monday night lessons, and will take place from 6:30 to 9:30 on February 29. Folks travel from across the region to do some bargain-hunting, so best get there early!

We will host our regular first and third Saturday dances at the Clark County Square Dance Center. Our annual St. McHattrick's Day Dance will be celebrated on March 6 with the "wearin' o' the green" and the "eatin' o' the 'taters". March 20 will be a regular club dance. Jim Hattrick will take care of both calling and cueing.

We work hard to make our education program a comfortable environment for students. Many of our club members volunteer as "Angels" to help make it an easy and productive experience. We encourage beginning dancers to start introductory lessons on the first Monday of every month at 7:30. We are committed to serving both beginners and continuing students with our lesson format. Every Monday, Plus lessons will be given at 6:30, Basic lessons start at 7:30, and Mainstream lessons are available at 9:00.

Marc Kahn

Coming up in March at the Oak Grove Community Hall: the Sadie Hawkins dance on the 5th and our Gospel Dance on the 19th.

It’s a fabulous event. In those days, it was held in Eugene. For us Portland area people, when it was moved to Albany, it was so much closer. I commend those folks who put it together, starting, really, the year before the year before, at least. We know how much work is involved in “simple” for once every now and then festivals, but to do it over and over again! Thank you for your work.

River City Dancers had thirty-five attending this year. We had our usual group photo taken by Jolene Cummings again. Thanks, Jolene and Ed for doing that for us. It’s a special challenge to get that many people together in one place at the same time. And thanks, Al Wolf, for your help in coordinating us.

I don’t have any official figures, but it was my impression that attendance was lower this year. But speaking of impressions, Rocky and I were hugely pleased with what I thought were a much larger group of newer, younger dancers, who were so lively and fun.

See you next festival!

We sure do love to dance�”and we’d love to dance with YOU at our First Saturday Dance on March 5 at the Milwaukie Grange. Our theme for March�”in anticipation of St. Patrick’s Day�”is “Get Lucky!” We’ll have a potluck from 6-7 and then alternate Mainstream and Plus tips from 7-9:30. Caller Kris Jensen will be making an encore appearance from Albuquerque for this dance. We warmly welcome couples and solo dancers.

SYIAS!

Jeff Knapp

Cathy

Several area dancers attended the party for Billie Smith in Port Orford. She was given the Randall Award at Mid-Winter. Congratulations, Billie, for a well-deserved honor!

Our third Saturday March dance will have a St. Patrick’s theme this year.

That is about it for this month.

Linda

We hope you will join us as we celebrate our very first birthday! On March 12th Adam Christman from Spokane will be calling at our First Anniversary Dance. We will be giving away commemorative dangles to the first 50 attendees. Since it will be held just 5 days before St. Patrick's Day, and because our club colors are blue & green, we were thinking we could call it our "Green and Blue Anniversary Dance." Whatever color you chose, come celebrate with us.

Our second dance in March will be on Saturday, the 26th with a caller to be determined.

Lastly, kudos to the committee of the Mid-Winter Festival. A great time was had by all of the members of our club and we are looking forward to next year already.

Nick Johnson

We have a visitation planned to the Valley Square’s Anniversary Dance March 19 at Aloha Grange. Come join in their celebration.

If you see Kay Rogers thank her for all the work she does on behalf of Oregon Square Dance. She is chair of the TVC nominating committee and is asking you to volunteer a little time. She chairs the Summer Festival in Seaside July 29-31. If that is not enough she is also chairing Boots in the Blue Mountains April 1-3 in Pendleton. Deborah Carroll-Jones and Jon Jones are calling. Susan Healea is cueing. Contact Kay at 503-396-5537 for more info. She says it is not too early to Reserve a room for your 15% discount at the Seaside Hotel by saying you are a square dancer. Buy your tickets soon. Lane Clem and Karen Steinka have ribbons.

We dance on holidays. Even if you have a job, you can join us once in a while. Our three callers keep us on our toes as each week one seems to have some new twist to keep our minds sharp. All plus dancers are invited to dance with us on Monday afternoons: Rounds 1:00 - 1:30 (Rounds will start at 1:15 during lessons); Plus 1:30 - 3:15 PM, Sunset Presbyterian Church, 14986 NW Cornell Road in Beaverton. We dance on holidays too so if you have a day off come join us.

Please check for up to date information at www.eagerbeavers.info or OFN website: http://ofn.club.

Rachel Nettleton

Sylvia Davis

On the 13th we held our Annual Poker Run at our new dancer class. That was also the evening of the big Powerball and although no one we know was a lucky winner in that drawing, there were three lucky winners at class. Prizes included vintage square dance glasses, custom made square dance towels and the ubiquitous Starbucks gift card.

Fifty-one Hoedowners were at the Wild West Chuck Wagon Dance on the 23rd. What a fabulous turnout. Ninety-three total attendees so the dance floor was rocking and most stayed for the Chili-Hot Dog feed. Darlene Ditsworth outdid herself with her astounding decorations. How many pairs of cowboy boots does that family have? Sally Duyck served beverages from the “bar”. What a night! Richard Lane was calling and harmonizing with Daryl, a great couple of cowpokes. We had to set up extra chairs for the chili and hot dogs. Thank you to everyone who came and whooped it up with us.

Mid-Winter Festival just about the best dance weekend of the year. Thirty-nine Hoedowners decided they didn’t want to miss a moment. We dined together Friday and Saturday evenings and owe a big thanks to Mike and Sally Duyck for hosting the post parties each night. We always enjoy the shopping and sharing. Hope you had a chance to see our very own Randy Lewis and Debbie Olson at the Showcase of Rounds. Three days of new callers, new music and new faces. We hope to see all of you there again next year.

What does March hold in store? I think it will be a little competition for that all important Traveling Trophy. The Hoedowners want to give your club an opportunity to claim it so on March 12 we’ll put her up for grabs. Trophy Dance, Aloha Grange, March 12th let the competition begin! Any federation club may claim the Trophy by having the highest percentage of members present.

By March 26th we’ll all be enjoying rites of spring so what better time to have a Spring Fever Dance? I can smell the daffodils, crocuses and hyacinths now. Please join us.

Krystal Laas

Patty Bonney

Sou'Wester Council hosted the Washington State Federation Meeting at the Rose Valley Grange on January 9th. There was a dance on Friday night at the Rose Valley Hall. On Saturday morning members of R Square D provided a hot breakfast for the attendees, and Ruff & Ruffles provided their lunch. On Saturday night Ruff & Ruffles hosted a dance and those who were staying in town attended that dance also.

A Super Soup dance was held on January 23rd with many attending wearing Sea Hawks attire. Soup was served to members of Cougar Squares and Harbor Haylofters, Ruff & Ruffles and R Square D

March brings us St Patrick's Day. On the 11th we will be "Wearin' o' The Green. Anyone who has a 2016 festival outfit is encouraged to wear it that night. On March 26th we will have a B51 dance with Richard Lane calling. Come on out and join us for a good time.

Toni Carroll

Now that the Holidays are over, we hope to do more visitations and hope to have more visitors at our dances, too. As a Club we have Mainstream dances with Mike Stout calling on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays and we also have Plus dances with Darrell Kalmbach calling on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Thursday. We have been doing this a year already now and it has worked out pretty well. Our cuer in Ken Pratt and he has been doing intermediate Rounds before all of our dances and also doing intermediate Rounds workshop and dance on Sundays from 6:30 to 8:00.

March 19th, 3rd Saturday the Club will be dark as we are visiting the Valley Squares Anniversary Dance.

Tom & Janice Sminia

Bev and Harlan Flint started round dance lessons in mid-January. They will follow up with waltz lessons before they are done. They sure do make our time together fun.

Hope you had a chance to attend Mid-Winter. Organizers worked so hard to give us a great weekend. The Toes gathered for dinner together in Albany on Saturday late afternoon and were back out on the dance floor to continue their weekend of dance and meeting with old and new friends. Great fun had by all.

Our Sadie Hawkins Dance was full of great costumes, funny jokes, a yummy southern style dinner, and lots of great dancing. How this group has fun together on the dance floor! We shared the love!!!!

We're hoping you wear your green for our March 4th "Luck of the 4 Sided Square Dance". We're celebrating St. Patrick’s Day a little early, but I’m sure the leprechauns won't mind. We will follow up on March 18th with our famous Ducky Dance in honor of Tom Gray, and his special collection of world renowned ducks. You might want to wear yellow with a duck bill and feathers, but it’s not required.

Looking forward to Spring and filling up our calendars with dance events. See you in a square.

Pat Olson

The Tri Squares are looking forward to our upcoming dances in March we will be having two dances. Terry Halley will be calling and Sandra Pinion will be cueing. Our first dance is the first Saturday on the 5th. The theme for the dance is “Orient Express”. Our second dance for the month is on the third Friday on the 18th. The theme for this dance is "Bit o' the Irish". We look forward to dancing with all of our friends. See you in a square.

Leslie Woodland

Rise and shine!! There were three squares of early birds show up at the Aloha Grange on Wednesday morning, January 6, at 5 a.m. We were there to show the metropolitan area how much fun we all have square dancing as Channel 8's Drew Carney featured dancers from various TVC clubs on his morning segment. Thanks to Bill Calder for coordinating this and to all the participants.

On the 12th we kicked off our lessons with a Community Dance at the Aloha Grange. With Pete's ads in local newspapers, Bill Calder's spearheading the Drew Carney spot, Janienne Alexander plugging our class on Meet-Up, and our members handing out business cards, we had 26 students that night.

We barely scraped together two squares of members and guests at our Celebrate Diversity Dance on the 16th. We realize that dark rainy Oregon nights make it tempting to stay home, and that many of you are traveling to sunnier climes, or that the winter colds and flu have set in.

Please encourage your new dancers and students to attend our Jamboree Tuesday, March 15th at 7 p.m. at Aloha Grange. We have a nice group of students who are progressing at a rapid rate. We will also have gently used clothing for sale.

Our 67th Anniversary Dance is March 19th this year. Randy Dibble will be co-calling with Chuck, and Connie will be cueing. This will be a Mainstream dance with every 3rd tip Plus. Open break downstairs from 8 to 9:30. Take a look at our flyer in the Special Dances section. Joy Choy and Mary Davis are chairing a themed basket fundraiser for this dance: Sports, Chocolate, Barbecue, Wine, Beach, Games, Coffee/Tea/Hot Chocolate & Tasty Morsels. We are charging $7 for this special event.

What a great time we all had at Midwinter! My thighs hurt, however. Six straight hours of dancing on concrete will do that to me… Those of you who danced the entire weekend are phenoms! We had a large group for dinner at Cascade Grill Saturday night.

Patt Hawthorne

Square dance classes continue every Wednesday evening, 6 to 8 p.m., at the Tillamook Elks lodge, 1907 Third St. in downtown Tillamook. The lessons are taught by club caller Joe Wrabek, and are free. (Joe also brings home-baked cookies.)

From March through October, the Wave Steppers will be having dances on the second Saturday of the month, on the Dance Floor at Garibaldi City Hall. April’s dance (April 9th) will feature veteran caller and cuer Jim Hattrick.

Joe Wrabek

Many of our members, along with a large number of our new dancers, met up at Mid- Winter in Albany. Everyone had a great time dancing and catching up with friends. When we came back home, our new dancers graduated and the barn now has 15 new members! We are excited to welcome them to our “Buckeroo Family”!

Happy dancing,

Robin P. Faltersack