NW DISTRICT OF SQUARE DANCE CLUBS, INC.

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1 NW DISTRICT OF SQUARE DANCE CLUBS, INC. September / October 2015 OUR PREZ SEZ by James & Katheryn Cole 2015 As most of you realize a new dance season is upon us once again! We are looking forward to attending many good dances in the next few months. The Fall State Roundup is coming up September 25, 26 & 27 and will be held in Lawton at the Hilton Garden Inn located at 135 NW 2nd. The number to call for room reservations is The NW District has been asked to be responsible for the hospitality room, so if you are going please let me know. See flyer in this issue regarding the 18th Annual Square Round the Lake September in Arkansas. Callers will be Tony Oxendine, Carolyn & Tony Ahart and Jerry Story. The State Festival is being held November 6, 7 & 8. They are having a fashion show during the State Festival. If you would like to participate, please fill out the application included in this issue and have it returned to Neola Stephens, 439 S. 19th Street, Clinton, OK by October 15. We are taking nominations for officers to be voted on at the State Festival. Nominee forms included in this issue. Then we will be having the Northwest Fall Festival in Shattuck on November 21. We have a lot of opportunities to dance coming up and I hope to see you all of some or all of them. Happy Dancing!!

2 This is the 5th issue of the Wheeling & Dealings in the Northwest for the year Thanks to all that supported us by getting your information to us in time to meet our deadlines. Please send news for the next edition to us by October 25th Include any dances or special for the rest of the year of Ticket sales are still going, your club ticket chairman has tickets, sell sell sell. Jack & Peggy Norman Thanks Jim & Linda Pick up tickets for the State Festival from your club ticket chairman & Sell, Sell, Sell. A great way to bring in extra money for your clubs treasury. The Grand Prize this year is the Mustang pictured here LIGHT BLUE METALLIC MUSTANG GT WITH A FULL WHITE VINYL ROOF - SHOWROOM CONDITION cubic inch, 6 CYLINDER, AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION, PONY INTERIOR, WHITE VINYL BUCKET SEATS TRIMMED IN LIGHT BLUE & BLUE CARPET WOODGRAIN DASH w/matching STEERING WHEEL. LESS THAN 100 MILES SINCE TOTAL RESTORATION District Officers, Callers, etc. for 2015 President James & Katheryn Cole E County Road 57 Mutual, OK katheryncole.cole@gmail.com Vice President Jack & Peggy Norman RR 1 Box 23 Fargo, OK boggycreek123@gmail.com Secretary Rod & Lois Ford P.O. Box 253 Gage, OK wb5ovt@pldi.net Treasurer Carmen Veal 210 East Highway 15 Gage, OK crveal@hotmail.com Historian T.J. & Nancy Blankinship County Road 330 Waynoka, OK tnblankinship@pldi.net Parliamentarian Currently Vacant Immediate Past President Dale & Jackie Niehus East Rupe Avenue Fairmont, OK dj2niehus@gmail.com Publicity Director Jim Robertson E County Rd. 51 Woodward, OK jim-r@jim-r.com Linda Meyer 9408 State Hiway 34 Woodward, OK linda@jim-r.com State Reporter CALLERS Rod & Lois Ford P.O. Box 253 Gage, OK wb5ovt@pldi.net Don & Bonnie Main R.R. 2 - Box 118 Vici, OK drbmain@yahoo.com Jim Robertson & Linda Meyer E County Rd. 51 Fred & Pat Trujillo Woodward, OK Virginia Road Andover, KS jim-r@jim-r.com Visit nine Jack & Peggy Norman RR 1 Box 23 Fargo, OK boggycreek123@gmail.com Wayne & Kathryn Paul #1 Silver Pump Ranch Lipscomb, TX (806) cattlekate13@yahoo.com Wayne & Debbie Johnston E County Rd 35 Woodward, OK yankee9801@yahoo.com Alternate Delegate Paul & Jeanette Kremeir rd Street Alva, OK pjkrem@sbcglobal.net DELEGATES Melvin & Sherry Evans P.O. Box 861 Alva, OK raylynn5331@yahoo.com Carrie Milford & Robert Wood P.O. Box 246 Ft. Supply, OK carriemilford@yahoo.com woodinski@yahoo.com ACTIVE PAST PRESIDENTS Dale & Jackie Niehus East Rupe Avenue Fairmont, OK Allan & Sue McBride 302 Dogwood Lane Enid, OK Allan & Sue McBride 302 Dogwood Lane Enid, OK

3 Harper County Squares Harper, Kansas President: Doug Perry Harper County Squares No permanent location Harper, Kansas President: Doug Perry V-President: Judy Fisher Secretary: Cheryl Howlett Treasurer: Faye Conaway No news or dances received for this issue, please call above numbers for information.. Northwest District Fall Festival November 21, 2015 Shattuck Oklahoma Golf Course November 21, 2015 the Fall Festival will be hosted by the Red Carpet Squares. The district meeting will be held at 4:30pm at the Shattuck Golf Course, 1 mile south of Shattuck on Hwy 283. The dance will also be at the Shattuck Golf Course. Registration will be at 6:30pm, predance festivities will start at 7:45pm, dancing begins at 8:00pm The theme for the evening will be "The Golden Gala Awards", be sure and wear your sparkles! Jimmy Gouge will be calling the dance. Shattuck has several restaurants and fast food to choose from for supper, Charlies(Mexican Food), Gusto's(Italian & American), Ed's Cafe, Pizza Hut and Sonic. To assist with the dance fun, Woodward Wranglers will be in charge of the kitchen, Harper County will be handling registration, Alva will be in charge of door prizes and the 1/2 'n 1/2 pot. Each club is to bring 2 door prizes and each dancer is to bring finger food. Look forward to a golden fun filled evening.

4 Woodward Wranglers Pioneer Room or Location mentioned below President: James & Katheryn Cole We will be kicking off our dance season on September 19 in the Pioneer Room with Mike McCormick calling. Our October dance is the 17th and Jim Howard is calling. We won t be having a dance in November due to the NW District Festival in Shattuck with Jimmy Gouge calling that same weekend. We are not holding a December dance because we voted to have our Christmas party in lieu of a dance that month. All of our dances for 2016 will be held in the Pioneer Room. The callers are as follows: January 16, Don Main February 20, 2016 Don Main March 19, 2016 Rod Ford April 16, 2016 Freddie McKee May 21, 2016 Don Main September 17, 2016 Skip Gates October 15, 2016 Jim Howard November 19, 2016 Jimmy Gouge We are going to be holding lessons beginning October 19 at 7:00 in the Pioneer Room with Don Main teaching. Hopefully we will have several to take lessons. Invite/encourage all those around you to give lessons a try. If anyone knows where we could do some advertising, please get in touch with an officer and we ll try to get it taken care of. Remember to sell, sell, sell on the car tickets. Robert Wood is the ticket chairman, so please see him if you need additional tickets. Remember we get a portion of these proceeds back for our club!! The August dance at Ft. Supply was well attended. I heard there were three squares and homemade ice cream!! Thanks to all who supported the summer dances. We look forward to them again next summer. James and I will be hosting the September dance and I will have a sign-up sheet out for the dances thru the end of 2016 so everyone can get signed up. I would like to encourage everyone that can to attend all the dances in our district as well as surrounding dances. EVERY club needs our support as we need theirs!! Hope to see you all at our opening dance September 19!!! James & Katheryn Cole Reporting

5 Red Carpet Squares Lumber Yard Shattuck, OK President: Jack & Peggy Norman Red Carpet Squares News! Red Carpet Squares will be kicking off the dance season on September 12, 2015 at the Starbuck Feed Building in Shattuck, OK. The callers that evening will be Rod and Lois Ford. Dance time will be 8:00pm. On October 10, 2015 at 8:00pm the club dance will be called by Cecil Burton. It too will be in Shattuck, OK at the Starbuck Feed Building. The next dance will be on November 14, 2015, Don Main will be calling, Starbuck Feed Building at 8:00 pm. November 21, 2015 the Fall Festival will be hosted by the Red Carpet Squares. The district meeting will be held at 4:30pm at the Shattuck Golf Course, 1 mile south of Shattuck on Hwy 283. The dance will also be at the Shattuck Golf Course. Registration will be at 6:30pm, pre-dance festivities will start at 7:45pm, dancing begins at 8:00pm The theme for the evening will be "The Golden Gala Awards", be sure and wear your sparkles! Jimmy Gouge will be calling the dance. Shattuck has several restaurants and fast food to choose from for supper, Charlies(Mexican Food), Gusto's(Italian & American), Ed's Cafe, Pizza Hut and Sonic. To assist with the dance fun, Woodward Wranglers will be in charge of the kitchen, Harper County will be handling registration, Alva will be in charge of door prizes and the 1/2 'n 1/2 pot. Each club is to bring 2 door prizes and each dancer is to bring finger food. Look forward to a golden fun filled evening. Rounding out the dances for 2015, On December 12, 2015 Red Carpet Squares will be dancing at 8:00 pm, Starbuck Feed Building, Rod & Lois Ford calling. To see 2015 out, Don Main will be calling the New Year's Eve dance at Shattuck at the Starbuck Feed Building, This dance will start at 9:00pm. Hope to see you at the dances, and the Fall Festival for the "Golden Gala Awards" dance. Margaret Wiederstein There are several attachments and flyers included in this issue. Please take time to look at them following the calendar of dances. If you have flyers for the next edition please them to jim-r@jim-r.com

6 Our article this month was a request from Daniel & Phelica Scott, State Education Chairman, to share something our club has done several times. This activity not only provides a service to our members, but it provided Fun and Fellowship as well. All that being said here is what was done. Our club wanted new dresses. We wanted something different not just off the rack. So we had a Club Sewing Bee. Two of our ladies designed and picked out fabric for club approval. Club members were told If you attend and help with the Sewing Bees even if you can t sew your dress will only cost you the price of the fabric and trim. Dates were decided on and plans went into action to have two Saturday Sewing Bees. Each Saturday started with coffee and sweets. The ladies were assigned their activity for the day. The ladies that could sew and came with their Sergers or Sewing machines went to their places. The non-sewing ladies were given jobs according to where they wished to work (cutting, ironing, threading elastic, threading ribbon, pinning trim, etc.) Each lady brought a salad to share at noon. After lunch we all went back to work until around 4:30p.m. or so. After straightening up, as we left everything where we had ended. Oh, did we mention we had a gracious couple that allowed us to take over their upstairs play room for the two Sewing Bees. Anyway, each work day ended with us meeting our Partners for dinner at a locale Restaurant. Sometimes we were so motivated that we went back after dinner to work on the dresses some more. This time we had our partners that helped with any of the non-sewing jobs they felt comfortable doing. At the end of the two Club Sewing Bees each lady had a new Club Dress and their partner a tie. For those ladies that could not attend the Sewing Bee a fee was paid to the club and those that did attend made their dress. There weren t that many that did not attend as they didn t want to miss the Fun and Fellowship had by all in attendance. We do want to stress a lot of planning goes into this type of a Club Activity, but the rewards are well worth the effort. We made two club outfits this way and the bonding of the members makes us kind of sad when all is finished and very proud when we wear our new outfits to Festivals, District Functions and Club Visitations. If you want more detailed information on this kind of activity for your club or District give us a call at or us at: barbarasewing@sbcglobal.net Sincerely, Cecil & Barbara Burton

7 Alva Twisters - Dances are at 7 PM Zion Lutheran Church Hall in Alva 212 Maple Street President: Rod & Lois Ford ALVA TWISTER TALES Even with very little dancing taking place during the summer months in the Northwest District, several of the Alva Twisters still managed to keep in practice. Some traveled to Branson, Mo. to dance to Fred Trujillo and Bob Jones. The Branson agenda was a little different this year with all the square dancing and associated activities being held in the host hotel, The Camden Inn. This hotel was less than one quarter mile from the Branson outlet mall. It was, however, all downhill which caused some problems climbing back up particularly if you had been doing some heavy duty shopping there. Several dancers even rode the multiple zip line system in Branson. All maintained that it was really fun and one was heard saying that if we did it again next year that he might even consider opening his eyes. After arriving back from Branson, the following weekend, July 10 th and 11 th, was the fifteenth Annual Route 66 weekend held in Elk City, OK. A few of The Twisters made this trip and enjoyed dancing to the ten or so callers who are booked annually for this event. Several Twister couples journeyed to Andover, Kansas on Sunday July 12 th for Fred and Pat Trujillo s along with longtime Kansas dancers Gordon and Irma Schutt s induction into the Kansas Square Dancer s Hall of Fame. This celebration found a large hall completely full of square and round dancers who enjoyed dancing to numerous callers and cuers. Monday evening, July 20, found all the Twisters meeting at The Hall for their business meeting and indoor picnic. Dempsey and Linda Roten furnished the water melons again this year and other members brought additional great picnic goodies as well. After the picnic a short business meeting was held at which time plans were discussed for the upcoming Woods County Fair which is scheduled for Sept. 10,11 and 12. The Alva Car Show will be held on September 19. We hope to sell lots of tickets at both of these events. Twister lessons are scheduled to start on Thursday, September 17. It was reported that several couples had expressed an interest in taking the square dance class. During the meeting officers were voted to stay the same for the upcoming year. The evening was finished by dancing two or three tips. Throughout the summer several Twister members journeyed to Ft. Supply to dance with Don and Bonnie Main and Rod & Lois Ford. Our special dance sponsored by Twisters and Harper County Squares will take place on Sunday afternoon, August 30 at the community building in Kiowa, KS. Fred Trujillo and The Fords will be calling this event which will start at 2:30 p.m. If there is enough support for this dance hopefully others can be sponsored by both clubs whenever there is a fifth Sunday. Our fall dance schedule starts with a Hippy Dance on September 26, The October dance will be on the 24th with Halloween being the theme. Please remember that all Twister evening dances start at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:30 p.m. A Nonymous Alva Twister Reporter

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9 WW = Woodward Wranglers RCS = Red Carpet Squares September 2015 AT = Alva Twisters Northwest District Clubs HCS = Harper County Squares SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SAT URDAY Perryton Promenaders - Robert Hutton 6 7 Labor Day RCS - Rod & Lois Ford Perryton Promenaders - Plus - Jim Howard WW - Mike McCormick AT- Hippy Dance - Rod & Lois Ford 7 PM Aug 2015 S M T W T F S Oct 2015 S M T W T F S PRINTED FOR THE NORTHWEST DISTRICT ON 8/28/2015

10 WW = Woodward Wranglers RCS = Red Carpet Squares October 2015 AT = Alva Twisters Northwest District Clubs HCS = Harper County Squares SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SAT URDAY Sep 2015 S M T W T F S Nov 2015 S M T W T F S Perryton Promenaders - Jimmy Gouge RCS - Cecil Burton Columbus Day (Observed) Perryton Promenaders - Plus - Skip Gates WW - Jim Howard WW - Lessons at Pioneer Room 7 PM AT - Halloween Dance - Rod & Lois Ford 7 PM WW - Lessons at Pioneer Room 7 PM Halloween PRINTED FOR THE NORTHWEST DISTRICT ON 8/28/2015

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