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We look forward to calling and cueing for the dance on April 30. This is the first Fifth Saturday dance since the pandemic started. The dance starts at 7:30 with Pre-Rounds and then the square and round dance tips will begin at 8:00. We end at 10:00.

We know the mask mandate is over, but please wear one if you are more comfortable doing that. We will have hand sanitizers at the front desk and on the tables. Please bring your own water as the water fountain is still turned off due to COVID. There will be no shared food.

We look forward to calling and cueing for your dancing pleasure. We are charging $8 per person.

Christina Corelli

On Sunday, April 3, we held our first advanced dance since last summer when we managed to get in two dances before deciding to shut down due to the surge in COVID cases. Since case counts are low as well as hospitalizations, we have chosen to start dancing again. We only had one square of dancers and some extras to swap out but are hopeful we’ll see more come out in future. The next dance will be on April 17, but this report had to be in by the 10th so I cannot report on it. We look forward to having more regular dances.

We dance in Hall B of the Emerald Square Dance Center from 1:30-3:30PM two Sundays a month depending on the availability of the hall and dancers. Please consult our website at cas-sd.yolasite.com for the tentative schedule. Also if you want to be on the email notification list call Fred Beise at 458-221-3564.

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In March we held two dances since none of the other clubs had resumed dancing and our members felt they were getting rusty. K.C. Curtis called our first dance and Jim Hattrick called our second dance on the 4th Friday, our normal dancing night. We had an impromptu visitation from our friends to the north, mostly Salem Swingin’ Stars but also some from Lebanon Square Circlers and Corvallis Squares. We were very happy to see them join us. Both dances were a lot of fun. Since masking was optional by the 4th Friday, we allowed dancers to bring food to share although I think most were so used to not bringing food to share that there wasn’t much on the break bar. I am sure as time passes people will get more into it. Meanwhile we come for the dancing not the food.

Neil Koozer cued the 2nd Friday night. We were super happy to see Jackie Gale return to calling for us on the 4th Friday. It was truly a regular dance. Some dancers do continue to wear masks, but the vast majority feel with vaccinations and boosters and a stricture to stay away if one is not feeling well that we are on firm ground.

We hope more will join us on April 22 when we will have Scott Zinser calling and Jackie Gale cueing. On May 14 we will offer a combined dance with our sister club, the Whirl-A-Ways. It is our Mexican Fiesta dance and will feature a taco bar as always. Please mark your calendars for that fun dance! Mike Kious will be calling and

Christina Corelli will be cueing.

Please check our website for more information: singletrees.blogspot.com

Happy dancing, everyone,

Gaynor Hintz

Yippee! We are back to dancing! We dance every Sunday from 4 - 6. Tim is a great caller and will call whatever level we can muster. We've been dancing for a few weeks. All of our dancers have had their two vaccinations and the booster. We are continuing to wear our masks. We have hand sanitizers on the tables. Please bring your own water.

We invite you all to join us! We're a fun bunch and have been gathering during the pandemic being masked and socially distanced just to visit and see each others' faces!

Please call our president, David, at 541-520-7311 to make sure we are, indeed, dancing. Once in a blue moon we give up our dance night for the hall.

Christina Corelli

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We started our lessons on March 19th and have been doing pretty well. All seem to be having a good time. We hope to plan another set of lessons in June but that is not positive yet.

Dances have not been well attended. I don't know if it is people not wanting to come back yet due to Covid or just so many dancers have dropped out of the activity.

Hopefully we will get some help soon from the area dancers before we have to become a traveling club.

Hope to see you at one of our dances soon.

Sandy

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Our Birthday Dance in March had two squares. It was lots of fun to get out on the floor again. We are looking forward to more dancing. We have decided to not go dark for the summer and are planning dances for June, July and August. Come visit us on the third Saturday of the month. Norma

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Corvallis Squares had an Easter themed dance, with decorations including Ukrainian Easter eggs. We are just dancing the second Saturday of the month for now. We’re planning to offer mainstream lessons in the fall, as we move hopefully toward full swing again! Karen

Golden Squares is dark until further notice. The venue is still in lockdown due to Covid. Teija

We had a good dance for our 62nd birthday dance. Three to four squares and lots of black and white as those are our club colors. We had Dixie cups and birthday cake for munchies.

Molly Combs Fairly has joined Capital Callers and Cuers, ORDTA, and Roundalab so she can now fill in for Patty Hermann when Patty doesn’t feel well. Such fun to watch her 2-year old daughter Brie run around the hall with daddy Bill not far behind.

We have a board meeting in May to discuss lessons for the fall, more special dances and hold elections. The past presidents had a gathering recently and welcomed the most recent past president to the group. Always a fun time since there are no rules to follow.

Come and join us as we dance from 7-10 p.m. on the first and second Saturday of each month except for August. Marilyn Schmit

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Well, we have made it through another month. We are finishing Jive on April 21 and will have a workshop/review with Leonard Snodgrass as the instructor on April 28. During May we will just have workshops/reviews with Randy Lewis since he will be recovering from hip replacement surgery on April 27. He will be unable to be on the dance floor to teach so we will start a new class of something in June, depending on what his doctor says he can do. The waltz class will pause during May and finish up in June or whenever Randy gets to the bottom of the list for Phase 4.

We are collecting dues and names for office holders through April. Hope all are enjoying spring and the warmer weather. Marilyn

Happy Spring. We continue to have great dances. Thank you to all of the dancers who come out to our 1st, 3rd and 5th Fridays.

There were four squares on the floor for our Dress like a Fool, April Fool's Day Dance. We had a blast and the crazy outfits were so much fun to see. Our 56th Birthday dance was April 15. Election of officers were held at this dance. April 29 is our 5th Friday Plus dance with Special Guest Cuer Jeanine We are looking forward to our May dances.

We have 13 students in our beginning Mainstream class and five of them are ages 8-16. We have four squares on the floor each week. The new dancers are learning fast and having fun.

We do not go dark for the summer as we dance all year long. See you on the dance floor. Sheila Machado

We have 29 students in Mainstream lessons, only two of them are adults. Lessons are going well and we usually have six squares on the floor thanks to angels who fill out the squares.

Our Teen Square Up weekend is May 6 and 7. If you know of youth dancers, please pass the word to them that they are welcome to join us. This is mostly a youth get together/dance with a little competition added. Contact Karyn for more information. (503-873-4869 or buchheitfarmkm@gmail.com)

May will have our last official dances until September as we are usually dark June, July and August. Petrina Buchheit

Timber Twirlers started back dancing in March after two years of being dark. We want to thank those that have attended our first few dances. Our last dance will be May 20 as we go dark for the summer because our hall is not air-conditioned.

We are looking forward to Sept. and having our regular schedule of fun dances. Sandy

Willamette Squares March dance was well attended and thoroughly enjoyed by all. We appreciated the visitations from other clubs. Due to Covid, our last dance was our birthday dance in October 2021, so everyone was very happy to be together once again. It was our new caller’s, Bruce Lowther, first dance for our club. He was well received. Judy Russell was our cuer. We are back to having a food table providing refreshments for those who are comfortable partaking of it. The pizza and cupcakes went fast.

At our club meeting we established themes for our upcoming dances. In April it will be Eggstravaganza; in May it will be Barbecue, Brisket, and Burgers! Save the fourth Saturday evening of each month and join us. There is always good energy and fun! Jodee Howard

We had a great 57th anniversary dance on April 6th, with Daryl Clendenin. He was our club caller during the 1973/74 year. Tami cued that night. She has been our club cuer since 1996.

April 29th, we will be hosting our council dance at Abernethy Grange. It will feature Sarge and Cece Glidwell, the caller and cuer for the Klamath Country Squares. It’s really a treat to welcome and dance to entertainment that doesn’t usually come up this way.

Jim

The Buzzin Bees celebrated Their 64th Anniversary on April 16th with many friends and Visitors. We were excited to have a visitation from the Portland Area Council.

We are beginning our 64th year dancing on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month at the Messiah Lutheran Church 905 NW 94th Vancouver, WA, 7 to 8:45pm. Our caller is KC Curtis. Please come join us!

Did you attend our March 18th dance with Mark Wheeler as Caller and Leonard Snodgrass as Cuer? This was the first time we booked these two together - it was a winner! Mark even closed the evening with ‘Elvis’ on stage. Thanks to all for making it a fun night.

On April 1st (no foolin’) we hosted our HIPPIE Dance. It was well attended - we had four squares. We encouraged costumes and you, the dancers, elected the winners: Male was Robert Lumsden (County Cut-Ups), Female was our very own Vicki Pounds (we think she was sharp as a redhead) and Couple was awarded to Gene and Patricia (with their fringed vest and flared bell-bottoms) of Bachelor & Bachelorettes.

If you are in the Portland Area on April 29th, the Glidewells (from Klamath Falls) will call and cue for PAC’s 5th Friday dance held at the Abernethy Grange, a/k/a Bachelor and Bachelorettes hall, in Oregon City.

Chaps will dance the 1st and 3rd Friday’s on: May 6th - opens PLUS with Zinser and Stephanie Lozano cues, on May 20th, theme is “Flags of Valor” with Darrell Kalmbach, Caller, and Dave Cooper (all the way from So. Coast Council) will cue and on June 3rd - Zinser opens with PLUS and Julia Buchheit cues.

See you in a square,

Betty Chipps

The Boring Barn is never a boring place to come! The Country Cut-Ups have a very busy schedule in the merry month of May. We square and round dance every 1st, 3rd, and 5th Saturday night, with Plus from 7:00 to 7:30 PM on 1st

and 3rd Saturday, followed by Mainstream. 5th Saturdays are all Plus level.

Once again, we are having our annual Barn Sale (quenched by COVID for the past 2 years) on May 20th and 21st from 9:00 to 4:00. We have stored up 3 years of things to sell, so we will definitely have something you need! Come out and find your treasures. All Cut-Ups needed to help with set up on the Tuesday before. Call Dan Ragland with any questions, he is the head honcho for this event. Kudos to Dan and all his work!

We are offering lots of dancing for our community. Lynn is still teaching line dancing every week on Thursdays from 5:00 for beginners and 6:00 for more experienced dancers, but all are welcome to come to both hours for only $5. To learn more, go to:

https://www.meetup.com/line-dancing-at-the-boring-barn/ .

Don and Michelle Garwood are teaching Cowboy Two Step on Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30 PM. This is not round dancing; this is the one where the guy learns to lead and you can dance it anytime, anywhere you have the right music! Great social skill to learn, and it is popular with our community. Bring a partner and the cost is $7 for the two of you. There is talk of moving these to Friday nights and start offering some dances on Saturday nights opposite our square dances for the Two Steppers and Line Dancers in our area, so stay tuned for more information.

Our club is also offering some round dancing classes taught by Tami Helms, so for more information, call Young Lumsden. Young's number is (503) 791-7779. We graduated 10 new mainstream students this spring and several are eager to learn more dancing.

Our club President and also the PAC President, Robert Lumsden and his lovely bride of 45 years, but forever Young, are celebrating with a FREE dance on May 22nd. We will dance from 2:00 PM and also see the River City Riders perform their new routine, “Tri-Ride”. Robert, Young, and Ron Rasmussen have all joined the River City Riders to give the horses some new blood. The River City Riders are now sponsored by the Country Cut-Ups, who currently have several who enjoy horsing around.

See you on a dance floor,

Bev De La Bruere

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We have been active and busy. Our dances on the second and third Saturday of each month are doing well. We also hosted a new dancers dance that had over four squares. Julia Buchiet was our guest cuer that day and did a very nice job . Thank you Julia.

Our clothing resale was a big success and we now have more room in our storage area to move around.

Lessons continue and our students will graduate On May 1.

We dance every second and third Saturday at Milwaukie Community club in Milwaukie. The welcome mat is always out for others to join us for a fun night of dancing to the calling of our caller Darrell Kalmbach and cuer Tami Helms.

Carol Mendenhall

The Ramblers were delighted to welcome Chuck Simpkins and his wife Carla, all the way from Grants Pass, to our April monthly dance. This was Chuck's first time calling for the Ramblers, and he called a marvelous dance. In addition to lively tempos and creative patterns, Chuck provided tremendous guidance and encouragement to our new dancers and students. A great time was had by all!

We always tell our students that, in addition to being loads of fun, square dancing will introduce you to a wonderful and supportive community. Our words have certainly rung true lately. After our SSD instructor experienced some health problems over the past month and was unable to teach, we reached out to Daryl Clendenin to substitute. Without hesitation, Daryl stepped up and filled the gap with his trademark good sense, good humor, and good calling. Thanks to Daryl, we are still on target to graduate 19 students on May 14.

Speaking of...our graduation dance on May 14 will feature the amazing Eric Henerlau calling. What a treat to have this internationally renowned caller for our always entertaining Mad Plaid Grad dance. Wear your craziest combinations of plaids for this dance. Graduation ceremony (all welcome!) at 6:30, followed by Social Square Dance and Plus tips from 7 to 9:30. We dance at the Oak Grove Community Center, 14496 SE Cedar Ave., Portland.

See you in a square!

Jeff Knapp

The SSD class graduated April 12th with 6 new dancers. Welcome!! We had a fun time at our dance on April 16th with Wayne and Bob, in spite of the low turnout.

Our dances in May will have Chuck calling and Elaine and Mary cueing - Elaine on the 7th and Mary on the 21st. We will also have an SSD Dance on May 13th w/Chuck. Memorial weekend is coming up faster than you think!! Going to be a great festival with Eric Henerlau & Dan(Allison) Drumheller!! There is still time to get your pre-registrations in for a discount on the weekend price. We are looking forward to having a great time with everyone!!

New SSD classes will start on 4/19 and we hope to get a great turnout; maybe some of the 50++ dancers who attended our dance a few weeks ago!!

We are so happy to be getting back to some normalcy and it's great to see everyone's smiling faces!!

See you on the dance floor!!

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Many dancers in the Portland area have danced with long, tall Gary Wells. It was with a great deal of sorrow to learn of his passing. He was a smooth dancer, both square and round. He helped me and lots of other dancers to get our moves correctly. I am not sure what other clubs he belonged to but he was a member of the Columbia River Dancers and the Happy Hoppers.

In case l did not mention it before, Mary Brown is our new Treasurer and l have taken on the office of Vice President of Columbia River Dancers.

Our May dances will be with legendary caller and cuer, Jim Hattrick. We had 4 squares of dancers at our first lessons in April, with a new dancers dance planned for the last Sunday beginning at 6pm.

Nick Johnson

Eager Beavers’ dances in March continued with a half-hour of Plus review followed by our regular dance of Plus and Rounds. Our wonderful teams on alternating weeks are caller Darrell Kalmbach with cuer Jeanine Norden, and Jim Hattrick as caller/cuer.

The new slate of officers has been elected and will be installed in May. Co-Presidents: Karen and Ferrous Steinka, Co-Vice President: John Semm and Leslie Tallman, Secretary: Dee Rice, Co-Treasurers: Sally and Mike Duyck, TVC Delegates: Alice Hendricks and Judy Groom.

Our club voted to continue to require proof of vaccination for our dances in April and to revisit the issue in May, but masks are optional.

We dance every Monday afternoon from 1:00 to 3:00. For up-to-date information see our website at http://EagerBeavers.info.

Alice Hendricks

The Hayshakers are dancing again on the 2nd & 4th Saturday of every month from 7 until 9 o’clock with Mark Wheeler calling. We have many new students, so the first 1½ hours dance time is devoted to teaching square dance and the remainder to dance Mainstream and a little Plus. Our website is hayshakers.org

Craig Holt

March finally arrived and It’s like we’re all marching to a new drummer. Can’t you just feel it in the air? A balmy day, masks are optional, and dancers are returning! Woo Hoo!

Hoedowners hosted two dances in March. On the 12th Scott Zinser called and Randy Lewis cued. While on the 26th KC Curtis led the dancers in squares and Randy Lewis did rounds. Want to know the second most exciting development of March? Masks were certainly #1 but #2 Hoedowners resumed our monthly pinochle games. We love seeing our friends across a dance square, but we also look forward to seeing our friends across a square card table! More to come!

Our round lessons have been progressing. Somehow, I thought a Triple Traveler was an equestrian event. Turns out I was wrong. Connie Clark is still optimistic and teaching.

A big Hoedowner welcome to our two brand spankn’ new members Jeffery and Dee.

Please join us for our regularly scheduled dances in May on the 14th and 28th. We have some surprises in store. Masks and/or shields are optional. We Can Not Wait to See You!!

Krystal Laas

Easing up on dance mandates went well with everyone in March so M&M’s are continuing with their new “conditions”: proof of vaccination required but wearing a mask is optional. Fingers crossed that it only gets better.

In this month of May we will be voting in a new Board - familiar names playing musical chairs into a new position. We will only be dancing one night, May 7th, as we had to cancel our May 21st dance. That only leaves just a handful of dances left until we go dark for the summer. Our last dance is June 18th.

We hope you get a chance to join us at the Winona Grange to enjoy a night of dancing with Randy & Jeanine . Be sure to check our website for any potential changes.

Lindie Noonan

The Oak Hills squares continue to hold lessons on Monday’s from 6.30-7.30pm at the gym in Oak Hills On NW 153rd Ave. We have 9 students who are doing great. We then dance mainstream until 8.30pm with our fabulous caller, Mark Wheeler.

The first Monday of each month we will dance mainstream from 7.30-9pm and we welcome other clubs to come along and join us. The dances will be themed, the hall decorated and we will have tasty treats available.

Monday, May 2nd will be our next dance, with the theme of “Friendship” as we have one of our founding couples coming to visit from their new home in Florida. We hope to also welcome a lot of fellow dancers from other clubs.

If you cannot make the first Monday of the month dance then please feel free to come and visit on any Monday evening.

Mask wearing is optional, however we do require all dancers to be vaccinated.

Linda Kitchin

R Square D had a class-level dance in March that was great fun and we had a few students dancing with us that night. Our Spring Celebration dance on the fourth Saturday was lively and fun with Jim Hattrick and Susan Healea as our caller and cuer.

We have only one dance in May. It’s our Fiesta De Mayo Dance on Friday, May 13th. Craig Abercrombie is calling and Patty Hermann will cue this dance. Plus dancing and intermediate rounds are from 7-8 and the mainstream dance with phase II rounds is from 8-9:30. We are dark on the fourth Saturday for Memorial Day weekend.

Our lessons are continuing on Wednesday evenings with plus at 6:30 PM and the beginning/mainstream class from 7:30-9:00. The classes will wrap up in mid-May.

After a two-year absence, we will hold Octoberfest this year! It will be October 14-15 at Catlin Grange in Kelso. Callers for this are Craig Abercrombie and Adam Christman. Our featured cuer is Susan Healea. Put those dates on your calendar and watch for more news as it gets closer.

R Square D dances at Kelso Senior Center, 108 NW 8th Ave, Kelso, WA. Our hall is air conditioned and masks are not required.

Chris Poole

We have been moving ahead with lessons starting out with 13 students but since have dropped those numbers down to about 6 people.

Starting in May we will be having cookies, water and coffee after the dances for some social time.

We voted for officers and the new slate is; President Judy Schnase, Vice President Ed Mickelson, Secretary Diane Pratt, and Treasure Lalani Radford. Thank you all for stepping up to take on those jobs. Also would like to give a big shout out to those who were doing those duties during the last couple years through all the turmoil of Covid. It seems we have made it through and are still having fun dancing.

Promenaders will be co-sponsoring the Seaside Sashay this year Oct. 21 2022. The cost for the weekend will be $20.00. The Callers will be Randy Dibble and Stephen Nosack from the Seattle Area. Debbie Taylor will be the cuer.

Our normal schedule is 1st and 3rd Saturday for Mainstream, 1st, 3rd, and 5th Thursday for Plus. We dance at the IOOF Hall in Hillsboro near 3rd and Main. We no longer require proof of vaccination and masks are optional. See our website for further information, http://sunsetpromenaders.com.

Mike St.Clair

We are happy to report that we have had a successful free dance on April 2nd. Approx. 35 new people were learning the basics, and most expressed an interest in joining us again at the Kinton grange for the next free dance on Saturday May 14th, at 11:00-2:30.

Our first dance in May is on the 6th. This will be our Ducky Derby dance, with lots of Ducky-ness activity going on. You won’t want to miss this one. KC & Linda Curtis will call and Connie Clark will cue pre-rounds @ 7:30. Mainstream @ 8:00.

May 7th Kinton grange will hold a plant sale, they always have lots to choose from. May 20th will be a regular dance, pre-plus with KC & Linda Curtis calling & Julie Buchheit cueing.

Toe’s will host the next 5th Saturday TVC dance, held at the Kinton grange on April 30th. KC & Linda Curtis will call, no info on the who will cue at this time.

Please join in the fun and friendship @ the Kinton Grange and dance with us! We are still just 5 ½ miles west of Washington Square, on Scholls Ferry Rd.

Kathy Degman

Yes, we are back! Member-only refresher workshops began in April, and in May the refreshers will be open to all dancers! We dance at the Tigard Grange, 2:00: Round Dance refreshers with cuer Sandra Pinion, and 3:30-5:30: Mainstream refreshers with our caller Terry Halley. On Sunday afternoons: May 1, 15, 22, and 29. We still ask that dancers wear masks for now. Cost $5 at the door. (And our first two "real" dances are coming up in June, on Sunday afternoons.

Please see our website trisquares.com or the OFN for flyers.) Also in May we will be deciding whether to keep our previous dance nights or to change our dances to Sunday afternoons. A lot is going on at Tri Squares!

Gloria Davis

We are dancing. Second Fridays are Plus dances. Fourth Fridays are Mainstream. Randy Dibble is calling and Leonard Snodgrass is cueing. We have begun new dancer lessons. They began this past Tuesday, April 12th. We have two more weeks of open lessons for those who would like to join us. Lessons are at the Community Center in Newberg. 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm for new dancers and followed by 8 to 9:30 pm Advanced workshop for those interested in joining us for that.

Judy Zimmerman

Valley Squares May 21st dance will be our 73rd Anniversary Dance, 7 to 9 pm at the Aloha Grange. Craig Abercrombie is Calling and Connie Clark Cueing. Come join us! Masks are optional.

Our class has completed their lessons and we have 8 new members. We have several visitations planned, we want to keep everyone dancing and enjoying other clubs and callers.

See you in a square,

Carolene Siebert

No change in May. We are trying to find enough students for a square. No dances at WaveSteppers until further notice. For up to date information see: www.wavesteppers.org.

Bob Allen

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