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Our 2010 / 2011 Dance Schedule

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Dances are held each First, Third, and Fifth Fridays of each month, September, thru May at

the City Park Building, also referred to as "The Club Tico" just north of the City Park Lake, which is located just north of West Mulberry Ave. The street address of "The Club Tico" building is 1599 City Park Drive, Ft.Collins, Colorado.

Rounds begin at 7:30 PM, square dancing begins at

8:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Visitors and Singles are welcome.We do have hearing enhancement equipment available at all dances.

As with most square dance clubs, our regular dance season begins early in September, and runs through the fall and winter, and comes to an end in the spring time near the end of May.However , there are summer square dances at numerous places in the state and the country. Click Here to access the partial list of summer dances.

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The Barn Dance of 2010 is now history!

We extend our thanks to all those square dancers who enjoyed the afternoon with us. It was great.

See this? I told you-uns to click your way down here to get the REAL

Scoop on this year's Barn Dance

Yee Haw!

Y'all come to the Square Dusters'

Barn Dance--Next Year, Sunday, July 10, 2011

So if you missed it in 2010, you get another

chance in 2011.

Caller: Roger Schappell

Rounds 2:00 - 2:30-- Squares 2:30 - 5:00-- Barbeque Supper 5:00

At the Berthoud Barn, 619 1/2 4th Street Berthoud Co.

Tickets will be sold only at the door on the day of the dance.

Casual Attire. All are Welcome, including single dancers. We have hearing enhancement equipment available, no charge.

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Summer Dances

Red Rock Ramblers in Lyons, Colo. Has dances every Saturday evening thru the summer.

The first half of their dance schedule, June and part of July, will be held

at the Lyons Elemantary Gym-4Th and Stickney, Lyons, Colorado.

Then beginning with the Saturday July 24, 2010 dance, this dance and the other remaing dances of the season, will be held at the Longmont Senior Center, at 910 Longs Peak Ave, Longmont Colorado

Rounds begin at 7:45 PM, Square dancing, 8:15 PM to 10:30 PM

Berthoud Barn Owls.--Summer Time Squares--

Second and Fourth Wednesdays 7:00 to 9:00 PM June, July and August 2010

619-1/2 4Th Street Berthoud Colorado

July , 2010 Cheyenne Frontier Days, with Prairie Promenaders.

For more information, call Dave Guille @

(307)-638-3541.

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Lessons

Continue to watch this web site for the announcement of a new series of mainstream

lessons to begin early in September of 2011. No new lessons in 2010.

Club Officers

Co-Presidents- Cindy & Bill Focht (970) -351-6737

Vice Pres- Ron Pecoraro (970)-667-0185

Secretary- Gail Ordway (970)- 231-1106

Co-Treasurers -Erwin and Clare Rehme (303)-776-6809

To Contact us by email, write to---dusters@fortnet.org

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History of Square Dusters Club

In the mid 1950's square dancing was going through a renaissance and began to be of interest to more and more people. A group of workers at Woodward Governor Co, here in Ft.Collins, began to square dance among themselves, and soon had a small private group of square dancers. They danced in a small company warehouse at lunch time or other off work hours. But, as is always the case, there was a party pooper in the form of one of the company higher-ups who did not appreciate workers dancing on company property. Suddenly, they had no place to dance. But the activity provided so much in the way of social fun, no one wanted to end it then and there. No one can recall the exact year all of this occurred but it was after the company relocated to the new plant at Lemay and Drake in the early 1960's.

In order to continue dancing, it was necessary to find a place in town, which could be rented. Eventually someone found that the City Park Recreation building was available and it required some clean up. which the members themselves managed to do. But the costs of dancing in a rented building made it a priority to increase membership in order to spread the costs over a wider member base. So, the word was passed around the area and one by one, they gained new members. A name was needed for the club, and thus the Square Dusters square dance club came into being. The first club caller was Jim Vitch. In the mid 1960's Ray Boyd became the caller and called for many years. He is now one of Square Dusters charter members. The club flourished and over the years Square Dusters and square dancing evolved as we know it today.

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Message Board for Member

Well, time flies by too quickly. The Barn Dance for 2010 is now over and done with. But it was a great dance, and we want to thank all of those people who came to help us celebrate and make it one of the best Barn Dances so far.

There will be the usual late summer meeting and picnic in City Park, across

the street from Club Tico. It will be held on Thursday August 26, 2010.Probably about 6:00 PM. Just Be there, your pension may be at risk!

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LINKS TO MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SQUARE DANCING

Check This Link Just below!

http://members.tripod.com/~noriks/ENGLISH/English-Index3.html.
It connects to a very interesting web page which features animated circles (ladies) and squares (men) demonstrating all square dance calls. Check it out, it is fun to watch!
It even has music!
A very interesting web page of animated figures demonstrating sq dance calls.

A good source of all kinds of square dance stuff-next line down:

http://www.dosado.com

http://squaredancing.com/neasdc/index.shtml

The URL above will get you to the Colorado Northeast Council web page.

Fort Collinaders The other square dance club in Ft. Collins.

FortNet A great web site to find more about Ft. Collins!

Any questions, please contact any of the club officers Click Here

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This page was last updated August 19 2010

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