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Square Dance Club of Ft.Collins, Colorado

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Here is the date:

Our 50th Anniversary Dance will be our first seasonal dance on September 18, 2009 at The Ft.Collins Senior Center, 1200 Raintree,

in the Northwest corner of Shields and Drake Avenue, Ft.Collins,CO.

There will be a Pot Luck dinner at 6:00 PM, Rounds begin at 7:30 PM,

followed by Square Dancing at 8:00 PM.

Roger Schappell will call, and Pete Gomez will Cue the rounds.

Invite anyone and everyone. All Square Dusters old and new!

Our 2009 / 2010 Dance Schedule

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

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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 2008 is now history!

We extend our thanks to all those 75 or so square dancers who spent the afternoon with us. It was great.

The date is set and we will do it again------

THE BARN DANCE on Sunday July 12, 2009

Yee Haw!

Y'all come to the Square Dusters'

Barn Dance!

Sunday July 12, 2009

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.

Donation: $10.00 per person.

Casual Attire. All are Welcome, including single dancers. We have hearing enhancement equipment available.

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Summer Dances

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

June July & August at the Lyons Elemantary Gym-4Th and Stickney, Lyons, 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 2009

619-1/2 4Th Street Berthoud Colorado

July , 2009 Cheyenne Frontier Days, with Prairie Promenaders.

For more information, call Dave or Mary Ann Guille @ (307)-638-3541.

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Lessons

A new class of Mainstream Square Dancing will begin with an ice cream social and introductory class at 7:00 PM on Sunday, September 13, 2009. The classes will run from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM on Sundays and Tuesdays, thru November 24th, 2009.

The location is the T.R.Paul Academy for The Arts & Knowledge,

4512 McMurry Drive, Ft. Collins, CO.

This is 1 block north of E. Harmony, between Timberline and LeMay.

Singles are welcome. We will provide partners, and we do have hearing enhancement equipment available.

Cost is only $5.00 per person per 2 hour lesson. ( A Real Deal!)

For more information call:

Bonnie @ 970-219-0549 or John @ 970-493-9256

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CLUB OFFICERS

Co-Presidents-Larry and Jeri Frederick (970)-577-0859

Co-Vice Pres- Cindy & Bill Focht (970) -351-6737

Co-Secretarys Nancy & Jeff McNair (970)-225-9626

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

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

History of Square Dusters Club

Are You Ready for this?--

Square Dusters will be 50 years in exsistence in 2009!

We have been attempting to find as close as possible, just when the club name of "Square Dusters" was chiseled in stone. But so far no one has found any buried stone tablets in or around Ft . Collins , Colorado. Probably at the bottom of Horse Tooth Lake! All though, it has been alledged that an old sheep herder who herded sheep off of Hiway 14 east of LaPorte many years ago, came upon some old flyers half buried in the mud on the banks of Terry Lake! But regardless, a time has been determined to be about 1959, thus the club will celebrate it's 50th anniversary in 2009. Watch for the announcement of that dance.

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 Members

The annual summer picnic and business meeting will be held on Thursday August 27, 2009

The location will be at one of the shelters across from Club Tico in City Park. It will be pot luck, so bring a dish of good eating!

Time? About 6:00 PM.

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

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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