HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
It is hard to believe that it is 2024 already! And that Mid-Winter Festival is just a few weeks away. It is looking to be a good crowd this year – come join the fun.
A couple of things that no one ever seems to remember and always forget to tell new dancers:
Every caller and cuer sounds different. They also all have different equipment and set up at a hall differently. Every hall sounds different and EVERY HALL has at least one spot where it is very difficult to hear. BEFORE complaining that you can’t hear (or that the caller/cuer isn’t loud enough/isn’t good/isn’t clear/or whatever) try dancing in a different spot in the hall. Also try dancing in a different position in a square. Moving around the hall will let you try out the sound in other spots and you just might find out that you can hear great in a certain corner or in the middle of the hall. You might find that you can hear better as a side or as a head. Example: in our hall I find that I have the most difficulty hearing clearly in the right-hand front corner in the head #1 position and I hear the best when I am in the back center square in the head #3 position.
There are several moves with different types of handholds/hand touches. Not every move is the same and not every dancer thinks to be easy/quick to release hands if they have not been specifically told to do so as they learn each move. Please remember that it is not always the new dancer who forgets to let go – there are angels who also forget. We all need to remember to let go of hands when we need to do so.
The more we talk to each other in a square or as partners in a round, the less we and our fellow dancers can/will hear.
Going further into this year and as we have the opportunity for more special dances and larger Festivals WE ALL need to pay attention to some things.
Be aware of our own dance style. Do we each need to adjust our personal style to match with others in a square?
Be aware of who is in the square with you. Are you in with all newer dancers? Are you in with someone who cannot handle being swung or twirled? If they are wearing a DON’T TWIRL ME badge – OBEY IT! Are you in a square where not everyone is able to move at the same speed? Some squares will not be able to handle some styles of fooling around. YOU as an individual dancer need to be able to be aware if the square you are in at any time can handle someone being a little crazy with their fun.
There will be squares in your dancing lifetime that can handle any and all wildness/crazy style/goofing around. There will also be squares where you will have to dance completely by definition with no extra frills/flares/swings/twirls added. Most of the time, the square you are in will be somewhere between the two extremes.
One of the most important things for everyone to remember and adjust for: we are here to have fun. We might need to adjust our style so that we can accommodate others while those same others might need to adjust their style to accommodate us. Be patient with each other – everyone can have an off day or a move that we struggle with (even after all my years dancing, I have one very simple Plus move that it will take me all night to get right). NEVER, NEVER, NEVER tell someone that they aren’t getting it – that is the best way to make sure that someone drops out, never comes back and will be very negative about square/round dancing for the rest of their lives.
We do this to have fun. We need to do our part to help make it fun for those around us. This activity is very hard to do all by yourself.
Karyn Buchheit
I'm hoping to see many of you at Mid-Winter Festival this month.
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The next Federation meeting will be hosted by the Emerald Empire, and will be held at the Linn County Fairgrounds in Albany on January 28, 2024, in conjunction with Mid-Winter Festival.
One of the activities that takes place at Mid-Winter is the naming of the 2023 Randall Award recipient, honoring those members of our society who have contributed to the activity behind the scenes. Click here to see biographies of all of the nominees.
Welcome to the first month of the year. Are you excited mid winter is just over 5 weeks away! This is shaping up to be an amazing festival. We have lots of people registered and are looking forward to seeing all the wonderful masks that people create and wear. If you haven't gotten your ribbons yet, now is the time to do so. The price goes up in just 2 weeks! So contact your local representative or mail those checks in. We hope to see you on the dance floor!
Mid-Winter Festival 2024 is scheduled for January 26-28, 2024, at the Linn County Fairgrounds in Albany.
You may download the Program Book by clicking on the link, or on the colorful thumbnail to the right.
"Sashay to Salem 2024" will be held at Blanchet Catholic School in Salem on July 12 to 14, 2024.
Hi everyone. We have excitedly started planning your summer festival. It will be July 12-14th, 2024 at Blanchet Catholic school. So mark those calendars. We want to see all of you there. We have two new talents coming from Sparks, Nevada, and Grove City, Ohio. Neither one has ever been to Oregon, so we are thrilled to show off our state and our amazing dancers. We hope you are excited to come see some fabulous talent. So don't forget to get your ribbons. If you come see us at Mid Winter and register, you will be entered into a very special contest for free ribbons. We are hosting the after party on Friday night from 10-11 in Hall A. So come to Mid winter! We hope to see you there.
The latest news about the National Square Dance Conventions® is located in the National Squares magazine, produced by the NEC. You can find the latest issue here: (http://nsdcnec.com/flipdocs/NatSqOnline/Natsq1120/index.html)
The 73rd National Square Dance Convention® will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 26-29, 2024.
The 72nd Washington Summer Festival will be held in Yakima, Washington, July 11=13, 2024.
There is no USAWest scheduled for 2024.
The 74th National Square Dance Convention® will be held in Shreveport, Louisiana, June 25-28, 2025.
The 2025 USAWest Convention will be held in Spokane, Washington, July 31 - August 3, 2025.
The 75th National Square Dance Convention® will be held in Waco, Texas, June 24-27, 2026.
All clubs in the Oregon Federation are required to maintain their status as non-profit corporations with the State of Oregon. The Secretary of State's office mails out a renewal notice about a month before your registration expires every year. The following clubs expire this month:
January 3 -- Heads to the Center
January 16 -- Columbia River Dancers
January 21 -- Corvallis Squares
January 22 -- Cherry City Cloggers
January 25 -- Happy Hoppers
Download a complete list of the Federation club dances this month, all sorted by date and city.
Everything in the When & Where is extracted from the state directory information. If you find that your club information is wrong, you can fix that by going to the directory information area and fixing your data.
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At Mid-Winter Festival, the name of the annual Randall Award winner will be announced. Even to be nominated for this award is a high honor. This year's nominees are:
Photos and biographies of the nominees are in this document:
https://ofn.club/content/2024-01/Randall-Award-Nominations-2023.pdf
Watch this space next month to learn the awardee.
Don Wood, long-time national caller who appeared at many Oregon square dance events, passed away on December 12. I'm still waiting for a full obituary, but I wanted to get word about his celebration of life out.
The celebration of life for dad will be on Saturday January 20th at the Kitsap Square Dance Center (https://www.kitsapsquaredance.com/location.html) at 6800 W Belfair Valley Rd., Bremerton WA 98312. Tammy set up an FB Event for tracking - https://fb.me/e/42HpUXkkw. This is for all friends and family.
Tentatively, the event will start at 11am for memories and conversations, with a lunch followed by a dance (you don't have to dance) at 1:30pm. The dance will be focused on Dad's songs. We have recordings of him for many songs and use those with some patter breaks for individual callers. If you wanted to do one of Dad's songs please reach out (we will have a limited set of dances for someone who Dad taught if they want).
Robert Allen, 7/12/1937 - 12/25/2023
Bob Allen, key figure in dancing on the Oregon Coast for decades, passed away on Christmas day. We are waiting for a full obituary, but he was a member of the Hayshakers, the Wavesteppers, and the Eager Beavers, and almost never missed a TVC event despite the 100 mile round trip.
1/12/1948 – 1/9/2024
Leonard Snodgrass, long time caller and cuer around the state, passed away on January 9 after suffering a heart attack on January 7. We are waiting for a full obituary.
You can download this list of callers and cuers who are available and ready to call or cue a dance for you.
Callers:
Cuers:
The Tualatin Valley Council has chosen the January Oregon Round of the Month:
"Kelly", Phase II+2 Waltx (Whisk and Pivot), choreographed by Kazuyoshi & Atsuko Yoshikawa, performed by Twins Project on "Tanzen Lernen Leicht Gemacht 6".
For more information on the Round of the Month, please contact .
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A successful dance was held on Sunday, December 3, with Thell Rooney calling.
An Open House and Introduction to Modern Western Square Dance is planned for Sunday, January 7, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Milton-Freewater Community Building, 109 NE Fifth Street, Milton-Freewater, OR.
Presented by the Muddy Frogs Square Dance Club with Thell Rooney calling/instructing, all are welcome!
Dress is casual and there's no charge to attend. Bring along a friend; however,a partner is not required.
Plans are in the works to start lessons on Sunday, January 21, 2024.
Questions? Please contact:
Merri Anne: 541-861-9055 or merrianneh@charter.net
Kim: 509-240-0576 or luckymunk50@yahoo.com
January 25 (4th Thu)
Our next scheduled dances are March 30, 2024, June 29, 2024, August 31, 2024 which is also Christina Corelli's birthday! Our fall of 2024 Fifth Saturday dance is November 30, 2024.
Christina Corelli
Casual dress is the mode, but sometimes for special occasions we will get dressed up. We are looking forward to dancing at Mid-Winter in January. See you all on the floor at some time or another.
Happy New Year!
Gaynor Hintz
Our dances have themes so if you like to dress with the theme, please go to our website at singletrees.blogspot.com to see what the theme is for any dance you plan to attend.
We start our dances with 15 minutes of rounds, then have a plus tip and then go into mainstream with every 3rd tip plus from 8 to 10PM.
We have been lucky to have guest callers coming down the I-5 corridor to call for us. Our cuer Jackie Gale has taken a break from cueing for us as the drive from Sweet Home to Springfield can be a bit iffy in the winter time. She will resume cueing one dance a month in March. We miss you, Jackie! Meanwhile, Christina Corelli has graciously subbed in on occasion. When Craig Abercrombie calls for us he does the cueing as well. In December we had two dances on the 15th and the 22nd with Craig calling the first one and K.C. Curtis calling the second one.
Many of us are looking forward to ringing in the New Year with Roger and Christina here at the square dance center. We appreciate their willingness to call and cue and allow us to gather as a square dance community to wish each other well in the new year to come. We are also looking forward to hosting the new dancers on Saturday, Jan. 6.
Please come join us. Thanks to our president Joy Pitts, our vice president Melba Walker and some others our hall is quite resplendent for the season.
Happy New Year and Happy Dancing!
Gaynor Hintz
One of our members, Melba Walker, and her sister, Joy Pitts, with help from their niece, Janet Geiger, added more and more Christmas decorations to the hall. It looks absolutely fantastic with lighted displays everywhere!
Tim Matteson, our caller, hosted a gathering at his home in Springfield. He started working on his "playmobile" display in September. It's very time consuming, but the results are always amazingly beautiful and intricate. You can spend hours looking at everything. This company is based in Germany. Tim works on photos of his displays for the company. He's been to Germany a number of times as well. This is the first time since COVID that he's been able to host such a gathering. Awesome, as usual!
We dance at the Emerald Dance Center at 2095 Yolanda in Springfield, Oregon 59477.
All are welcome to join us any Sunday for fun dancing and camaraderie. It's casual dress always.
Christina Corelli
We enjoy Mike and Camille's new baby boy, Aidan, and take turns cuddling and holding him. He's already on the stage with his dad calling. He is also enjoying round dancing with Camille or Mike. What an awesome beginning to his life! Aidan has the most beautiful head of hair and an awesome and winsome smile! It's just so much fun seeing him when we go to dance.
We enjoyed Christmas squares with Mike and Christmas rounds with Christina.
We wish everyone a Very Happy New Year with many blessings for 2024!
Christina Corelli
Norma
The first dance in December was small. Daryl did a Sicilian circle and then did a square of two head couples and one side couple. Very interesting to watch and they did really well following instructions. The second dance in December is our Silent Auction, New Dancer Dance and Christmas dance. It will be a busy evening. We hope you have a chance to come and dance with us.
Marilyn
January 6 (1st Sat)
January 13 (2nd Sat)
Kaynor Heineck
January 7 (1st Sun)
January 19 (3rd Fri)
The Sunday Two-step class is also doing great and graduates about ten students on December 17. They will come back in January for three workshops to keep dance moves up to date before Mid-Winter. See you there!
Marilyn
We scheduled a New Year's Eve dance and youth overnight party to celebrate the end of the year. How things turned out will be in next month's report.
We are starting to look at initial numbers that we will be taking to the Pacific Northwest Teen Square Dance Festival, mostly so that Karyn can send in possible numbers and start to put together squares. At the time of writing this we have almost fifty youth signed up. Please put on your calendars our fundraising dance for our youth. It will be on Saturday, February 24, a normal evening dance time for us. Again, we have reserved Bethany Charter School for the dance. We are still discussing having dinner with it as well. The kids are selling the Cash Raffle tickets and the Festival pins. We will have both available at Mid-Winter, if you want to catch a kid there to buy either one or both.
See you at a dance.
Petrina Buchheit
January 5 (1st Fri)
January 21 (3rd Sun)
1. Tri-Council Dance at the Aloha Grange on March 30.
2. PAC 5th Friday dance at the Abernethy Grange, co-hosted by Bachelors and Bachelorettes, on May 31.
3. PAC 5th Friday dance at Oak Grove Community Center on August 30. This dance will be a community dance, in which we invite any and all members of our communities to give square dancing a try. The idea is to encourage brand new dancers to enjoy a free introduction to square dancing to support the many clubs that start lessons in the fall. Scott Zinser has generously agreed to donate his time and talents for this dance.
4. PAC 5th Friday dance at Milwaukie Community Club on November 29. This will be a new dancer Jamboree to support all the clubs who started lessons in the fall. Darrell Kalmbach will call, and Tami Helms will cue.
Our Christmas dance will be Wednesday December 20 with pre-rounds at 7:30 and Mainstream 8-9:30. One plus tip after break. Caller will be KC Curtis, and cuer will be Tami Helms. This will also be our basket raffle. There will be several great baskets and baked goods too.
We will be dancing three times in January. The January 3 Caller will be Darrell Kalmbach, and cuer will be Tami Helms. This will be our Black and White Ball. The January 17 Caller will be Terry Halley, and cuer will be Tami Helms. And on January 31, the caller will be Ian Craig and Cuer will be Tami Helms.
We are also looking forward to hosting the May 31 PAC 5th Friday dance at Abernethy Grange in Oregon City. We're hoping to see you at all of these events.
Kathy Polley
January 3 (1st Wed)
January 17 (3rd Wed)
January 31 (5th Wed)
On Sunday, November 19, from 4-7:30 PM the Chaps hosted a New-Dancer Jamboree. Scott Zinser called, and Julie Stiers cued. More than 150 people (15 squares of dancers) turned out to enjoy a full Turkey Dinner, which we served in three shifts. This number was about 20+ more than last year, and it appeared we were short on turkey. But no…too late we found the breast of turkey just warming in a crockpot on the back counter. We apologize for the oversight, please enjoy with us next year.
Scott Zinser called for the Country Cut-Ups Jamboree on Dec. 10. The Chaps went dark for Sunday Lessons, and instead turned out to support our Club Caller, Scott, and dance with our students. I seem to remember six squares at the Cut-Ups, lots of smiles and thanks for the snacks too.
We are looking forward to the New Year fun and dancing with you. Chaps will dance Friday, Jan. 5 (Scott Zinser opens with Plus, and Leonard Snodgrass cues). On Jan. 19, Lane Clem opens with Rounds at 7:30 PM, and Renee Ruud will call Mainstream at 8:00 PM - care to join us?
Merry Christmas and Happy 2024,
Betty Chipps
Cut-Ups dance at the Boring Barn on 1st, 4th, and 5th Saturdays, but the 4th Saturday will be dark in January to encourage attendance at the Mid-Winter Festival in Albany.
In February of 2024, we will be starting up Bingo games on the 2nd and 4th Friday nights. Concessions will be available. Door opens at 6 PM, games begin at 7 PM. Come out and support the club!
We have a nice Mainstream class this year and will look forward to graduating a good group of potential new members! Congratulations to all the new dancers for finding such a fun recreation!
Beverly De La Bruere
January 6 (1st Sat)
January 6 (1st Sat)
January 20 (3rd Sat)
January 13 (2nd Sat)
We look forward to welcoming lots of dancers to our famous Black and White Ball on January 13. Seattle sensation Stephen Cole saunters southward for this spectacular soirée. You need not wear black and white, but it’s always fun to see the various creative ways that these two contrasting colors can be combined. There will be Advanced dancing from 4-6, hosted by Heads to the Center. The Ramblers will alternate SSD (Mainstream) and Plus tips from 7-9:30. As usual, we will be at the Oak Grove Community Center.
We will offer another series of Social Square Dance lessons starting Wednesday, January 17, at Bridgeport United Church of Christ, 621 NE 76th Ave, Portland 97213. Our lessons continue every Wednesday from 7-8:30 pm until the last Wednesday in April. The first two lessons are free, to give potential dancers a chance to try before they buy. If you know anyone on Portland’s eastside who seems like a good candidate for dance lessons, send them our way!
SYIAS!
Jeff Knapp
January 13 (2nd Sat)
Our next meeting is Feb 6th. Happy Holidays!!
Our 56th birthday dance on 12/16 was absolutely fantastic. We welcomed Buddy Weaver as our caller (his first time at our hall) - and he was just terrific! We had a floor full of round dancers for Rikki and 6 squares signed in for the dance - with mostly 4 on the floor for the night! Lots of fun. Next year's birthday dance will be back to the 1st Saturday and will feature Adam Christman and Rikki. Our next dance is Saturday Jan 6th with Chuck and Elaine as we invite you to "Rock Into The New Year" Then on Jan 20th we will have an Amateur nite as we go "Singin and Swingin with the Penguins" We have quite a few amateurs already signed up!! Going to be a fun nite. If you want to give calling or cueing (or both) a try - come and join us for a great time!
We want to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season. We hope to see you in Grants Pass sometime in 2024!
January 6 (1st Sat)
January 12 (2nd Fri)
January 20 (3rd Sat)Just a reminder that ribbons will be $45 per person until 2/1/24 - then they will go up. Get your ribbons now - it's going to be a great time with Jim Steele, Jet Roberts & Rikki Lobato!! Check out the flyer - and if you need some in your area - please let us know!!
December 9. Since the regular dance night (the 4th Saturday) was on
December 23, we figured that was a little too close to Christmas. We
will have our Annual New Year’s Eve dance and celebrate the
New Year at midnight on New York Time or 9pm Pacific Time. That way
everything starts regular dance time and we get home before the
revelers were on the highway. The caller and cuer are mysteries again
this year.
On December 16, the Stars turned out in force to help the Charlie
Brown Squares celebrate their birthday. What a wonderful caller.
Everyone enjoyed Buddy Weaver.
We will start new Square Dance 101 classes (of SSD) on January 8.
Janet Geiger will be calling the SSD Dance on January 5, 2024. The Stars
will have their Annual Black and White Dance on January 13, 2024 with
Phil Ramey calling and Elaine Funk cueing.
A good many of the Stars, new dancers included, are planning to
go to Midwinter Festival on January 26, 27 & 28. We don’t want to miss
dancing to Jet Roberts.
January 5 (1st Fri)
January 13 (2nd Sat)
The next TVC Meeting will be held in person on Monday, January 22nd, 2024, at the Hillsboro IOOF Hall in Hillsboro. This will be our annual President’s Potluck and Meeting. Potluck at 6 pm, Meeting at 7. This annual meeting is held to honor current and past club Presidents of the TVC clubs. All TVC club Presidents & dancers are invited to join us. At this meeting TVC President Dale Brabham will announce the recipient of the Tualatin Valley Council “Recognition Award”. This award is for outstanding service and special contribution to the square dance community within the TVC geographical area. Please see the flyer below or in the 'Flyer' section of this OFN issue.
Since the OFN is published about the 20th of the month, you still have time to plan on attending the New Year’s Eve dance at the Hillsboro IOOF Hall with Darrell Kalmbach calling and Tami Helms cueing. The format will be: 7:00 to 7:15 pm, Rounds, 7:15 to 7:30 pm, Plus, and 7:30 to 9:30 pm, Mainstream with every 3rd tip Plus.
Once again 100% of the TVC club reporters submitted OFN reports, the only Council in the state to do so.
Ferrous Steinka
January 22 (4th Mon)
January 22 (4th Mon)
As in the past we will have Adam Christman and Craig Abercrombie calling. Jim will be missed. The dance will be mainstream with every third round plus.
Our regular January dances will be on the 5th and the 19th. Daryl Clendenin will call those dances and has been cueing as well.
We will begin a new class on Sunday, the 6th of January. We are encouraging interested people to come in and try it for free. What a deal!
We encourage all levels of dancers to attend the annual Mid-Winter Festival over the weekend of January 27-29 in Albany, Oregon.
Lastly, the Columbia River Dancers thank everyone who has danced with us this past year and wishes all the very best HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Nick Johnson
January 5 (1st Fri)
January 19 (3rd Fri)
In January, we will be dark on New Year’s Day, but will dance on all other Mondays, including January 29th following the Mid-Winter Festival. We will start our Plus lessons the following Monday, February 5th. Darrell Kalmbach will be our caller/instructor.
For current information, please see our website at http://EagerBeavers.info. (see link above)
Alice Hendricks
January 1 (1st Mon)
January 8 (2nd Mon)
January 15 (3rd Mon)
We’ve been having fun with 8 Chain Thru and 8 Chain x (x = 1 to 7). Many months of Plus lessons have covered Teacup Chain and Load the Boat.
A new cycle of lessons may start when daylight saving time resumes on Sunday March 10th.
Craig Holt
How about the music? I’m thankful we have so many genres of music; folk, pop, classical, country, hip hop, rock, electronic, religious, jazz, rhythm, and blues. A little bit of every style. And we’re always thankful when we can sing along. We’re thankful for friends and friendships we’ve made along the way across a square.
Hoedowners are thankful for the hard work that the Aloha Grange invests in keeping this building in beautiful condition with mostly volunteer help. Those volunteers are the largely silent and unseen workers we don’t often thank enough.
Hoedowners are thankful for those dry, sunny days that come amidst two weeks of steady rain. We’re thankful for the steady rain that makes our bit of the world so green and lush. We’re thankful for a furnace that keeps us warm and air conditioning to keep us cool.
We’re thankful for our friends and families no matter how close or far away. We’re thankful for cell phones which enable us to reach out to others, call for help, find our way to our destination or receive an insanely funny text. We’re even thankful for TV! It entertains us, lets us see the rest of the world from a variety of perspectives.
Hoedowners are thankful for the variety and bounty of our meals. We’re thankful for all the thought that goes into preparing food for tables at home and our table at our dances.
For those of us with pets, we’re thankful for their devotion. We’re thankful for books to inspire, sooth and teach. We’re thankful for art; doesn’t matter if by a master or a preschooler. We’re thankful for the person who pumps the gas, works as a flagger and all others who work outside no matter the weather. We’re thankful for firemen, first responders, EMTs and police who may see tragedies we couldn’t face.
We’re thankful for the quiet times and LAUGHTER, crazy hysterical laughter!
We hope your November was full of thankfulness.
We’re thankful to all who joined us on November 11th for our Veterans Day Dance and on November 25th when we dined on Pizza Pie and desert pies.
We’re looking forward to January when on the 13th we’ll have a Soup Dance. How many different soups can we muster?
And Mid-Winter Festival is fast approaching. See you there.
Krystal Laas
January 13 (2nd Sat)
January 27 (4th Sat)
Lindie Noonan
As of this writing our club plans a Holiday Celebration in December with a “funky sweater” theme, and plenty of good treats.
The New Year will feature lessons for new dancers beginning January 15th from 6:30 to 7:30. Our fun and friendly group will welcome beginners on January 15th , 22nd, and 29th . We welcome newcomers and would be happy to have experienced dancers from other clubs to come and be “angels” to the newbies.
For additional information visit our website, http://oakhillsquares.com/. (see link above)
Lynne Fonner
Our club visited Columbia River Dancers at their November 17th dance and we came home with one of their banners. We enjoyed dancing to Daryl Clendenin’s great calling and seeing many of our friends who regularly attend our dances. We plan to visit other “sister” clubs in the upcoming months.
Craig and Susan called and cued our “Gospel Dance” the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Many of us were happy to dance after indulging in rich holiday food!
R Square D has only one dance in January, which is on the 12th. Plus dancing and intermediate rounds are from 7 to 8. Mainstream dance with phase II rounds is 8 to 9:30, with Craig and Susan again calling and cueing. We will be dark on January 27th for Mid-Winter Festival.
For current information, please see our website: http://r-square-d.info/. (see link above)
Chris Poole
January 10 (2nd Wed)
January 12 (2nd Fri)
January 20th is a mainstream dance with Darrell and Tami. January 4th and 18th are the Plus dances also with our club caller and cuer, Darrell and Tami.
Beginning square dance classes begin on January 14th from 2:00-4:00 at the Hillsboro IOOF hall. Darrell Kalmbach is instructing. The first dance is free .. please encourage those interested to join us!
The TVC President's potluck is at the Hillsboro IOOF Hall on January 22nd. It is a potluck dinner at 6:00 pm followed by a meeting. We hope many will attend to honor the work of all the current TVC President's.
I reported last month on the successful Seaside Sashay and have a few more details to report. There were 269 dancers registered. Preliminary results show a positive net income for the Promenaders and the Hayshakers who co-hosted the dance. Many have already pre-registered for the 2024 dance which will take place on October 25th & 26th.
For current information, please see our website: http://sunsetpromenaders.com/. (see link above)
Terri Browning
January 4 (1st Thu)
January 6 (1st Sat)
January 14 (2nd Sun)
January 18 (3rd Thu)
January 20 (3rd Sat)
In January our lessons begin again every Sunday afternoon, with Plus at 2:00-3:15 and the second part of Mainstream at 3:00-5:30, both taught by Terry Halley at the Kinton Grange. They start on January 7th. We have only one dance, "B51 Cowboy Country" on January 12th, called by Terry and cued by Sandra Pinion. Be sure to bring your students to our grange for this B51 dance! On January 26th we'll be dark in honor of the Midwinter Festival in Albany.
Gloria Davis
Our third Saturday dance is January 20th, "Let's Have Fun Together". Our caller is Scott Zinser, cuer Connie Clark.
Dance times are 7pm - 9:30 pm with refreshments downstairs at 9:30 pm. Come join us and have square dance FUN!
Carolene Siebert
January 5 (1st Fri)
We are still looking for a new club caller, Lane has resigned his position.
Our dance venue is the Tillamook Senior Center, 316 Stillwell Avenue. Located on the corner of 4th and Stillwell there is no on site parking and little street parking. The huge Tillamook Coliseum Theater parking lot is directly across the street. Our dances are held weekly on Tuesdays from 4:00 to 6:00 except the dark months in winter.
For up to date information see: www.wavesteppers.org. (see above link)
Bob Allen
January 9 (2nd Tue)
January 6 (1st Sat)
January 20 (3rd Sat)
January 16 (3rd Tue)
January 13 (2nd Sat)
