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Northwest Florida Square & Round Dance Association Winter in Northwest Florida is over and spring is most definitely here. It has certainly been one of the mildest winters we have seen in many years. The Purple Martins are here, springtime flowers are blooming and our Snow Birds have migrated home to places north. April was graduation month for two clubs in our region. Agape Squares in Niceville graduated nine new Basic/Mainstream dancers. They will also be starting another new class very soon. Rivertown Squares in Bristol graduated 13 new dancers. Capitol Squares in Tallahassee has a class ongoing which has five squares of new dancers. The Sand Spurs Club in Ft. Walton Beach also started a Basic/Mainstream Class in April. Our Round Dance Cuers are also conducting classes at various times throughout the year. During April we had some great, fun dances in Northwest Florida. Springtime Rounds at Ragon Hall in Pensacola was great fun. The 21st Annual Spring Fling at Ragon Hall in Pensacola and the 36th Annual Panama City Beach Ball at the Panama City Beach Senior Center were just awesome. Everyone had lots of fun. Woo Hoo!!! May is going be a busy month in Northwest Florida as we gear up to head south to the Lakeland Center on May 25-27 for the 58th Florida State Square & Round Dance Convention. Some of our NWF Dancers will travel to Birmingham for May Days, featuring Jerry Story and Johnny Preston. The Summer Kick-Off, featuring Kevin Cozad and Ted Kenney will be held in neighboring Loxley, Alabama. As usual, one or more of the Northwest Clubs dance almost every night of the week and there are fun dances almost every Friday night at Ragon Hall in Pensacola and other sites in our area. If you are in our area, come dance with us. Alec and Kay Schmidt, President |
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Southeast Florida Square & Round Dance Association Thank you to all the wonderful dancers who joined us for a fun April Fool’s Day at the Boynton Beach Civic Center. This was one of our biggest dances this year! Over 7 squares with 65 dancers including 28 guests. The dance started with an April Fool’s prank on our host caller, Jack Lewis! As he began the tip, square by square began to leave the floor. This is known as “skunk-ing” the caller. But Jack played along without a hitch and not only marched out with us but in the next tip called a “Zumba”(!), which of course no one knew, his turn – “April Fool!” Larry Chatos was our host cuer with additional rounds by Zail Greenbain and tips from Scotty Sharrer and Sonny McCartney. Our Chinese silent auction was a great success – what was someone else’s discards proved to be someone else’s treasure raising over $120 for the SEA. Our Hawaiian Luau Square and Round Dance will be Sunday, May 6, in Hollywood at the Polk Street Shuffleboard Center, 309 N 21st Avenue, Hollywood (Hollywood Blvd. and Dixie). “Come Hawaiian!” Wear your leis, and Hawaiian shirts – grass skirts, anyone? Chris Phillips will be the host caller with Conrad Protzman, host cuer. We look forward to new class graduates joining us! Scotty and Marlene Sharrer have graduated 32 new dancers with 50 Angels helping them. Way to go! Come join us for a fun afternoon! Aloha! Rick & Sharon Nelson, President |
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West Coast Florida Square & Round Dance Association Many of the seasonal clubs are closing now as the snowbirds head north, but we still have a lot of year-round clubs dancing through the summer. Everyone is encouraged to support those clubs with your attendance. The State Convention is fast approaching – May 25-27 – at the Lakeland Center in Lakeland. There will also be a Trail-In Dance at our local square dance center, Strawberry Square in Plant City. Mardi Gras Fun in the Sun is the theme and we are looking forward to dressing for the theme. For more information go to floridasquaredance.com/convention/index.html. We were saddened to hear that Dick Fisher, husband of cuer Karen Fisher, has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. They had to cut their stay short to take an angel flight to Washington state to be near family during this trying time. Caller Kip Moulton had to also cut his stay at Strawberry Square short due to heart problems. I understand there was a change in his meds and he’s doing better. Strawberry Square has completed the programming of their special dance weekends for the next dance season and the flyers can be found on their website at www.strawberrysquaredancing.com or www.dancergram.com. They have scheduled several great callers – Jack Lewis, Todd Fellegy, Tim Marriner, Chris Phillips, and Jack Pladdys. The caller for the 2012 Callers’ Clinic Dance will be Steve Kopman from Tennessee. This dance will be held at Strawberry Square Dance Center on October 20th. We love having visitors in the West Coast area. You can find current dance information at www.dancergram.com. This site is updated weekly and contains current dance information for the west coast of Florida. Penny Green, President |
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There are so many great dances going on from now until the Florida State Convention at the end of May you can almost dance your little tootsie’s off. In your adventures around to all these wonderful dances please check their flyer table to see if they have any of our Party-Rama Dance flyers on display. If not contact any of the officers listed in the front of this Bow & Swing Magazine and advise us – we will be glad to send some out ASAP, ribbons too. We need to keep this dance before everyone’s eyes as you know it will be a really fun one with the wonderful callers and cuers we have lined up and the fun activities we are planning. Not to mention the After Parties FASSRD always hosts. This year we are featuring Sew-Em-Up Fashions from Spartanburg, South Carolina as our vendor. Many of you already know Nancy Pustinger from our Florida State Conventions. She has been there many years. Her selection of pretty clothes is fabulous. Aside from having a big assortment of “fluffies” in almost any color and fullness you could desire along with pettipants in every color imaginable, she also has a great selection, color-wise and style-wise, of blouses and skirts, both square dance short and prairie skirt long. Here is an interesting fact most of you probably don’t know. Nancy designs and makes the beautiful matching skirt and blouse outfits she displays. You will seldom, if ever, see the same outfit on the dance floor. Here is something else she does that is kind of neat, those matching men’s ties that often come with skirts that you don’t know what to do with – well, Nancy can make them into a stretch belt to match with your skirt. Something kind of different from those elastic belts we often wear. She has done several for me. We are looking forward to having Nancy and her Sew-Em-Up Fashions at our dance. This is just a gentle reminder, please make your reservations at the Kenilworth Lodge (800-423-5939) soon and use FASSRD as the code for our discounted rate.
Judy Anderson |
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