Canyon Lake Twirlers Square Dance

Canyon Lake Twirlers Square Dance Club Newsletter FEBRUARY-MARCH 2011 Randy & Sue Gibson Happy Valentine's Day to all of you. March 13, 2011 FEATURING Randall & Holmes, Calling and Howard Delcambre, Cueing Advanced Pre-Rounds 1:30 Pre-Rounds 2:00 Squares 2:30 5:00 PM BOARD MEETING February 16 th @ 4pm in the Canyon Lake Lodge downstairs card room ALL CLUB MEMBERS ARE WELCOME AT BOARD MEETING Line Dance Class Beginner Canyon Lake Lodge Tuesday 4:30 6:00 PM Easy Intermediate/Intermediate Wednesday 3:00 5:00 p.m. at the Lodge Holiday Bay Room Need more info - call Diana Gallagher Instructor 951-244-2854 We hope you all will stay healthy and able to dance the month away. There are a lot of visitations this month. See your newsletter calendar. Sign up at the workshop for car pools or call Lorie for more information. We need to return the visits from other clubs and retrieve our banners. Our club directors are working hard to provide items of interest for all of our members. Read your newsletter, all of the important items are in there. Call a Director, they know what's up. Come and help with the class. We have new people and we need help. The more angels, the more squares, and the faster the new class members learn. It is really important that the club keeps growing. New members, new ideas, more energy and enthusiasm. See you in a square! Sue & Randy I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E 1 President s Message 2 Sunshine Hospitality Birthdays 3-4 Traveling Twirlers Visitations 5 Twirler Club News Inspiration Session 6 Caller Spotlight Who s in my Square 7 Class News insert March 2011 Calendar & 2011 Dance Schedule

I get by with a little help from my friends John Lennon. Marie Schmidt has had a recurrence of breast cancer and had surgery a couple weeks ago. She s recovering well, but needs our positive thoughts and prayers. Anita Puff was having foot problems that kept her away from dancing, but she was at class this past week as an angel and she received her Golden Dancer Award. We're so happy to see her back. Bob Benigar is progressing slowly, recovering from his stroke. He asked that we say hello to everyone so, Hello everyone! Bob, we re all sending you good wishes for you continued improvement. Keep our friends in our hearts, say a prayer, send them a card or give a call to show you care. Kindness is a great healer. Please keep all our friends in your thoughts this month and always. When you hear of someone who is not well or needs some cheer, let Margie Zingg know. You can reach her at (951) 244-2404. March Birthdays Barbara Canfield 1 st Linda Bezzina 8 th Jackie Brown 8 th Nancy Lee 13 th Michael Razee 14 th Vi Henderson 23 rd Ray Kellett 28 th Happy Anniversary Penny & Don Hayhurst 7 th Notes from Rosalie Have a great month! Margie At our 37th Anniversary dance on January 9 with Buddy Weaver you could find the following people helping out in the hospitality area: Ron Morris, Chris Burns, Ann & Gary Weston, Muriel Greenwood, Debbie Lumpkins and Sue Miranda...and of course me!! Thanks to all who brought the usual abundance of great food. Joe & Vi Henderson greeted our guests, and Margie Zingg decorated beautifully in the Red, White & Blue theme. If you would like to help at a dance call Rosalie 244-0672 or just pop in and she ll put you to work JUST WHAT IS THE YELLOW / BLUE BOOK? Do you have a subscription to the Yellow Book and maybe even the Blue Book? Do you know what they are? Some of you may not know what they are or even how to get them. The Yellow Book is a quarterly publication by CCHA to provide information for dancers in the Cow Counties Hoedown Association area. It is compiled and edited by a volunteer member, since CCHA is a non-profit organization. The book lists who to contact at CCHA, gives club news & updates, sunshine reports, and information on items of interest for club/association members. The Blue Book is published bi-monthly and covers a wide area, from northern Los Angeles County, south to San Diego and east to the Inland Empire. This book is published commercially by The California Square Dancer Blue Book of Anaheim. Both of these publications are important references for dancers because they list dances square and round, in a format that summarizes dances by day of the week, by club and list the caller & cuers for the dance. If you don t already subscribe to one of them, visit CCHA s website http://www.squaredancingccha.org/ for the Yellow Book. Call 714-803-0250 for the Blue Book. February - March 2011 Page 2

The Whirlaways January 14 th Scatter visitation had 9 club members who brought home a banner. Rosalie Nusser H Jackie and Bill Brown H Melinda Townsend H Ron Morris H Andy Abeles H Debbie Lumpkins H Nancy Welch H Jim Kirsch Enough of us went to The Grapestompers on January 15 th to dance to Johnny Preston that we brought home another banner! In attendance was: Nancy Welch H Jim Kirsch H Andy & Lorie Abeles H Linda & Frank Bezzina H Debbie Lumpkins H Melinda Townsend H Gary & Ann Weston H Bob Alexander H Steve Falgout H Muriel Greenwood H Marie Schmidt H Bill & Jackie Brown H Andy Young H Marilyn Taylor H Nancy Lee H Henry Byle H Harriet Vermont Marie Schmidt was the lucky club member drawn to win the Visitation Pot last month. Unfortunately, she didn t attend a visitation last month. February s dance drawing will be for $20.00. If it goes unclaimed again, it will grow by $5 next month. To be eligible to win, your name must be drawn; and have attended one of Our Official Visitation to Wagon Train Squares on the Twirler s visitations and be at the January 22 nd had a great turn out with 16 signed in for Club Dance. the Twirlers and a couple more that hold dual memberships with Grapestompers. Randy & Sue Gibson H Andy & Lorie Abeles H Rosalie Nusser H Joe & Vi Henderson H Melinda Townsend H Gary & Ann Weston H Wilbur & Karin Sanchez H Steve Falgout H Muriel Greenwood H Marie Schmidt H Barbara Canfield H Andy Young H Marilyn Taylor H Ron Morris. With 2 + squares, we brought home one of their banners! The Scatter Visitation to the CCHA Hoedown on January 29 th had Andy, Lorie & Ellie Abeles H Lisa Evans H Joe & Vi Henderson H Steve Falgout H Linda & Frank Bezzina H Andy Young H Marilyn Taylor H Wilbur & Karin Sanchez January 29 TH at the Palomar Square Dance Assoc. 62 nd Anniversary Dance was Susan Westhoff H Rosalie Nusser H Les Smith H Melinda Townsend H Randy & Sue Gibson H Barbara Canfield H Jackie Brown H Chris Burns. February 4 th. Andy & Lorie Abeles H Rosalie Nusser H Harriett Vermont H Melinda Townsend H Rick Jones H Muriel Greenwood H Jim Kirsh H Nancy Welch H Bill & Jackie Brown went to the Buttons & Bows to dance to Mike Seastrom. 51 st California State Square Dance Convention San Diego April 8-10, 2011 It s almost here Do you plan to attend? Have you registered yet? It s not too late to register for this fabulous AND nearby convention. You can square up in levels from mainstream through challenge with this great line-up of callers: Ken Bower, Marshall Flippo from Arizona, Steve Kopman and Gary Shoemake from Tennessee. Round dancers can glide across the floor to the smooth cues of Ray and Sherry Garza, and Bill and Linda Maisch from California, along with Kristine and Bruce Nelson from Illinois (by way of Arizona). There will be exhibitions, a fashion show, collect new ideas in the sewing room, or learn from one of our education panelists. Oh, and best of all there will be VENDORS! And be sure to get together a square and join the fun at the youth and adult square dance competitions - who knows, you might win bragging rights for 2011! Did you know that our own Ellie Abeles won 1 st Place in the very first Youth Competition held at a State Convention? She did! Whether or not you can join us for dancing, you can still have a chance to win a great prize. For only $1, you can purchase a grand prize ticket! The big winner will walk away with $1,500 cash, $750 for second prize and a third prize of $250 plus two ribbons to the 52 nd State Convention. The winner does NOT need be present to win! Lorie Abeles is selling tickets and is sure she has the Grand Prize in her batch of tickets to sell February - March 2011 Page 3

Official Visitation for March 2011 * Club Outfits * Saturday, March 5th 7:30 Rounds 8:00 Squares Buttons & Bows Running Springs Elementary School 8670 E. Running Springs Dr. - Anaheim Featuring Charlie Robertson & Phil Farmer Calling with The Ghost Rider Band Jerry & Darlene Miller, Cueing *Please wear your club outfit * Donation $10.00 Scatter Visitation We started 2011 visitations with a bang! We had large turn outs, brought home 3 new banners for our collection and had a grand time doing it! Here s a recap of for our February visitations: Official to Cowtown Singles on Friday, February 18 th - 7:30 Rounds 8:00 10:00 pm Squares at Cowtown Square Dance Center - 15950 Van Buren Blvd Riverside Hunter Keller is calling with Carol Allen cueing Scatter to the Riverside Single Swingers on Friday, February 25 th - 7:00 Rounds 8:00 Squares at Janet Goeske Center, 5257 Sierra Riverside Featuring Johnny Preston Calling and Neil Booth Cueing. The March visitations are a bit of a drive, but these dances will be worth it. Let s get together and plan carpools to make the gas costs less for everyone and plenty of time to visit. Sign-up sheets are at the club dances and Wednesday workshops and class. You can also give Andy or me a call at 951-764-3347. See you in a square! Lorie & Andy Saturday, March 19th 7:30 Rounds 8:00 10:30 pm Squares Grin-N-Square It Fun Level dance El Monte Community Center 3130 Tyler Ave, El Monte John Reitmajer, Calling Shauna Kaaria, Cueing Scatter Visitation Saturday, March 26th 7:00 Rounds 8:00 10:30 pm Squares The Rustlers Kite Days dance Plus Level with A-1 at break United Methodist Church 12741 Main Street, Garden Grove Vic Ceder, Calling Bev Orean, Cueing February - March 2011 Page 4

This is the last PRINTED newsletter delivery. All distribution will be by e-mail unless you inform the editor. You must inform Ellie directly if you want paper. After this issue, only those that tell me that they would like a hard copy will be receiving one. Calendars will be printed and available for pick up at dances and workshops. Thank you for understanding. A reminder for your calendars, the April and May dances have been moved to the FIRST Sunday of those months, due to the State Convention in April and Mother s Day in May. California State Convention is in San Diego this year. Don t miss this opportunity to attend the convention so close to home! April 8, 9 & 10, 2011. Did you know that we ve moved the day & time of our Board Meetings? We meet on the 3 rd Wednesday of the month from 4-6 pm in the downstairs card room at the Lodge (before the workshop & class). Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join us at the monthly Board Meeting. Hope to see you on February 16 th. We want to extend a big welcome and congratulations our recent graduates and new club members: Lisa Evans and Debbie Lumpkins. We re proud of you and glad to have you in the club! Speaking of new members, Rick Jones, who s been dancing with us for a while has joined the club. His membership was approved at the last board meeting. Rick, we re glad to have you! We are still in need of a portable radio/cd player to test the listening devices. If you have an old boom box that has a variable speed control & speaker outlets. If you re willing to part with it, please let Ray Kellet know. Henry Byle was recently surprised by our own Sunshine lady, Margie Zingg & friend Rosalie Nusser to celebrate his 92 nd birthday. Hope you had a wonderful birthday Henry! We re considering having an experienced clothing sale at our March dance or sometime this Spring. Please talk to any of our Board Members or email us at canyonlaketwirlers@gmail.com if you re interested in donating to the sale, helping out or buying. More details to come soon. We are looking for businesses interested in advertising in our monthly newsletter. This would greatly help to defray costs for the club. If you know of someone, or yourself, who would have a business to advertise, we are developing a solicitation letter. Please see the ad below for more information. At our Anniversary Dance in January we had so many Twirlers in their Club Outfits, they looked great. If you haven t yet gotten yours, Karin Sanchez is the lady to talk to. A super THANK YOU goes to Ray Kellet and those that helped him with the Twirler s booth at the 5K Walk/10K Run sponsored by the City of Canyon Lake. We had a great presence for the club & Canyon Lake s activities, which is one of our Charter requirements. Thank you, Ray, Gary Weston, and class member Leota. Remember, ideas, photos or questions, info to include in Twitter, my e-mail is countryxmodel@yahoo.com and my phone number is (951) 750-4866. Deadline for our next issue is March 3 rd. Happy Dancing! Ellie Abeles Advertising rates: Business Card 3 ½ x 2 $ 5.00 per issue or $50.00 for 12 issues Quarter Page 5 x 3 ¾ $ 9.00 per issue Half Page 5 x 7 3/4 $13.00 per issue Classified: $.05/ word Advertisements should be prepared in black ink, computer or typewritten on white background. May be emailed in Word, MS Publisher or PDF. Payment for advertisement must be received by editor before deadline date. Editor will assist with design if needed. For more information or to place an ad, contact Lorie Abeles at aloriekat55@gmail.com or 951-764-3347. Please note that advertisements are also posted on the website, doubling your advertising dollars! February - March 2011 Page 5

On Randall & Holmes Jim Randall and Ray Holmes are a great duo. Jim is from Poway, he s been calling since 1973, while Ray is from Escondido and started calling in 1974. They started calling together in late 1974 and enjoy calling together quite a bit. Jim and Ray have called the Twirler s March dance for the past 5 plus years. In the early years they would change costumes between tips to accent the theme of the song they were singing. They still sing the songs, but the costumes have shrunk in the closet, so they don t do that anymore. Both Jim and Ray are very popular callers individually; but they still call together for a few clubs, the Twirlers being one of the lucky ones. A popular draw with dancers, there are usually 15 squares attending the dances they call together. The Twirlers always look forward to attending their dance each year. WHO S IN MY SQUARE? Last Month was.. Melinda Townsend A Help me out to make this column intriguing by sending me 10 = 12 tidbits about yourself. You can send it by email to countryxmodel@yahoo.com or by letter to 37648 Oxford Dr., Murrieta 92562 Cowtown Singles are dancing on the 1 st & 3 rd Fridays with guest callers. Carol Allen cues the 1 st Friday and Howard Delcambre cues on the 3 rd. There has been a complete remake to our Canyon Lake Twirlers website. We hope you will take a visit to check it out, and tell us what you think. If there s something that we ve forgotten or you would like to see added, you can send email to conyonlaketwirlers@gmail.com. Visit the website anytime, day or night at: www.canyonlaketwirlers.org What if there was no such thing as Gravity? What if what we thought was gravity, was in fact Love? I mean, wouldn t that just be the coolest? And if you truly, TRULY thought that no one, not one sole single person on the face of the planet Loves you, and for some bizarre and impossible reason, you were right and that you in turn Love nobody, not even yourself (because as everyone knows, if you aren t Loved, chances are; you won t Love anyone) then you would just.. fly away, off into outer space never to be seen or heard of again? EVER. What if Love was so overwhelmingly powerful that it keeps us all on this planet we call Earth? And it also keeps us sane? And those of us that are a little off or strange that the intensity of our offness just showed how little you honestly Love yourself? And the only, single reason that we make sense and can talk and communicate is because we love others? What if there was no such thing as Gravity? February - March 2011 Page 6

DANCERS CODE OF CONDUCT We want to keep our club members, new and experienced dancers up on the who, what & where of our square dance community. As space permits, we will include information and tips from across the country. This month comes from the UNITED SQUARE DANCERS OF AMERICA. The USDA is a national dancer s association organized by dancers, for dancers and operated by dancers. They have produced several pamphlets and educational materials for dancers and club organizations. Since we re all dancers, I thought we might start with the Dancers Code of Conduct. Square Dancers everywhere are encouraged to comply with an appropriate Code of Conduct that will enhance the public image and the pleasure of the movement to all dancers and nondancers, as well. Among the unique aspects of this wholesome activity is the attractive attire that is an intrinsic part of the image of the square dance. Accordingly, the wearing of appropriate apparel is as important to the enjoyment of the participants as it is to those watching. Not only should the clothing of the dancers be appealing to the eye, but also functional to the others within the square. It is generally recommended that this includes the wearing of long-sleeved shirts for the men and full or prairie skirts for the ladies as local customs and events may require. Avoidance of alcoholic beverages both before and during dances is essential to insure the enjoyment for everyone. A single drink can severely diminish the response time required to execute the intricate moves of the dance. Square Dancing in itself has the capability of providing sufficient exhilaration to warrant abstinence from alcohol on dance nights. Courtesy to others is important at all times. This includes personal cleanliness, as Square Dancing is an energetic recreation that can be offensive should adequate precautions not be taken. The welcoming of others into the dance and into the squares is an integral part of the social aspect of Square Dancing. Walking out of a square at any time is considered a severe insult. At the end of the dance, no one should leave the square before thanking everyone who contributed to the joy and the fun of dancing together. Conforming to the accepted and generally taught hand positions and maneuvers for execution of the movements help to eliminate any uncertainty among the other dancers. Proper styling while dancing is as important to the enjoyment of the Square Dance as is the proper execution of the movements themselves. Adherence to these guidelines should be encouraged from the very early stages of beginner s class. The best means of achieving this is through example by experienced dancers and leaders and by the incorporation of ethics into the educational process during the class. It is felt that through the reaffirmation of these long recognized rules of conduct, dancers everywhere will be reminded of the importance of courtesy, friendliness and personal hygiene. All of these things are an integral part of the Square Dance activity. Don t miss out on your chance to win the Grand Prize of $1,000, second prize of $750 or third prize of $250 plus 2 ribbons to next year s State convention. You do not need to be present to win With a great start of 15 new dancers! They had a great time, so much so that they came back the second and third weeks! We ve got a good group of people and Vic is moving right ahead teaching the fun of dance! Vic Kaaria - Class Caller/Instructor All Raffle Ticket sales benefit the State Convention AND OUR CLUB! Lorie Abeles has raffle tickets for sale We promoted seven class members to Phase Two. There are also five former class members returning to join the Phase Two class giving us twelve in that class. These are the biggest classes that we have had in a long time. Come out and join us and meet these people. We need angels. Be an Angel - come support the new class! Do you need to brush up on your dancing skills or maybe just have some more floor time? Come to the workshop on Wednesday nights, starting at 6:15 pm and stay for the class. We always love to have lots of our friends at both! February - March 2011 Page 7

TWIRLER SQUARE DANCE CLUB DANCE THE 2 ND SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH ALL CLASSES & DANCES IN THE LODGE 22200 Canyon Club Drive Canyon Lake, CA 92587 Questions: call 246-1846 or 244-0672 Wednesday Square Dance Workshop & Classes IN THE LODGE Workshop 6:15 7:00 Phase One 7:00 8:15 Phase Two 8:15 9:30 Vic Kaaria, Instructor LINE DANCING IN THE LODGE Beginning Line Dance Tuesdays 4:30 6:00 p.m. Intermediate Line Dance Wednesday 3:00 5:00 p.m. Diana Gallagher, Instructor YOUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2010-2011 Presidents Randy & Sue Gibson 246-1846 Vice President Gary & Ann Weston 679-6728 Co-Secretary Helen Shepherd 672-8376 Co-Secretary Barbara Canfield 246-2514 Co-Treasurer Bill & Jackie Brown 694-3650 Co-Treasurer Sharon Truitt & Dick Massey 679-7887 Hospitality Rosalie Nusser 244-0672 Publicity Melinda Townsend 245-0541 Sunshine Margie Zingg 244-2404 Floating Director Ray Kellett 244-8236 CCHA Rep & Visitations Lorie & Andy Abeles 677-8143 Historian J.R. & Bill Reynolds 694-8357 Newsletter Ellie Abeles 750-4866 Website Manager Andy Abeles 764-3346 Past President Darlene Whiting 733-8566 Line Dance Diana Gallagher 244-2854 February - March 2011 Page 8