Canyon Lake Twirlers Square Dance Club Newsletter JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2011 Wednesday Happy Valentine s Day Dance February 13, 2011 FEATURING Johnny Preston, Calling and Shirley Ivins, Cueing Advanced Pre-Rounds 1:30 Pre-Rounds 2:00 Squares 2:30 5:00 PM BOARD MEETING January 17 th Dinner at Pepe s at 5:30 Board Meeting at 7 p.m. Canyon Lake Country Club Magnolia Room ALL CLUB MEMBERS ARE WELCOME TO JOIN US FOR DINNER AND OR BOARD MEETING Square Dance Workshop & Class I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E 2 Sunshine Hospitality 3 President s Message Traveling Twirlers 4 Visitations 5 Twirler Club News Inspiration Session 6 Caller Spotlight Who s in my Square 7 Class News History of CCHA insert 6:15 7:00 pm Workshop 7:00 8:15 Phase One class 8:15 9:00 Phase Two class Caller & Instructor Vic Karria Be an Angel - help our class members become strong dancers. See you Wednesday nights! 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 March 2011 Calendar & 2011 Dance Schedule
I get by with a little help from my friends John Lennon. Tammy Johnson has been having back problems and hasn t been dancing for a while. Please keep her in your thoughts as well as Fran Jasinski, Bob Benigar, and Henry Byle. I understand Henry might get to come to the dance again this month to visit everyone. Our sincere condolences and hugs go to Chris Burns, her Mother passed away Christmas day. More sad news about a friend of the Twirlers, Jim Deffenbacher passed on December 21 st, from complications of a stroke he suffered a week earlier. Our condolences go out to Joyce and their family. February Birthdays Ann Weston 2 nd Henry Byle 3 rd Penny Hayhurst 27 th We have No Anniversary Celebrations in February 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 Linda Bezzina know @ 672-2498. Notes from Rosalie Have a great month! Linda Our December dance with Tony Oxendine was a total blow out in a good way. Joe & Vi Henderson greeted the many guests. Sue & Randy Gibson decorated the stage and brought the beautiful poinsettias. I've never dealt with such a huge turnout and so much food!!! I thought the maximum count would be 150...and we probably served 250. Four members cooked turkeys, and many brought 2 to 4 different dishes. What a beautiful array of wonderful food. Those helping with set up, clean up and in between were Ron Morris, Chris Burns, Steve Falgout, Barbara Canfield, Joyce Ingram, Ray Kellett, Gary and Ann Weston, Marie Hurte, Sandy Smith, Jim Kirsch, Nancy Welch, and Bob Alexander. Two students helped for the day, Diane Cashman and Leota Janzen, this let other members enjoy the dance. I hope I haven't missed anyone who pitched in. It was such a huge undertaking, especially without kitchen access, but it was a beautiful day and we were able to overflow onto the lakeside patio and around the fountain. Thanks to all who brought so much food (too much to list here) as well as the helpers. If you would like to help at a dance call Rosalie 244-0672. 50-50 Raffle Some have wondered about how the 50-50 Raffle works and what the money is used for. Here s the scoop This is a fundraiser for our club, as many other clubs too. Tickets are purchased from the Treasurer for money prizes. We take 50% of the total collected that goes back to the people buying the tickets by drawing ticket numbers, the club gets the other 50% which goes back into the general fund. There are also donated gift prizes too that are raffled. The money prize tickets are the first drawn. This is accomplished by the Treasurer going around and asking dancers or officials to draw tickets, then the same is done for the donated gifts. Winning tickets for all are posted during the dance. The same procedure is used for the workshop and class except that the winners are announced. Club money from the workshop and class goes toward the graduation and advancement parties. If you have other questions, please ask Jackie and Bill. January February 2010 Page 2
Happy New Year to all of our members! Our New Year s Resolution, one of them, is to stay healthy and see all of you dancing in 2011. We wish the same to all of you. We are looking forward to dancing this year. There is a continued need for members to support our Wednesday workshops, classes, monthly dances and visitations. Members, please make it a point to mark your calendars with these functions. If you have not danced in a while, come to the Wednesday workshop and get the rust worked out. The workshops are a fun way to brush up on your skills. You and your fellow dancers will have more fun. A WELL EARNED PAT ON THE BACK! Thank You to EVERYONE for making the December Dance such a success. Our guests had great things to say about the caller, the location, the poinsettia plants and the FOOD! Huge KUDOS to Rosalie and her workers, and all those who pitched in to help. It was a massive undertaking. We did great! At our January dance we will celebrate the Club s 37 th Anniversary! We would like to take this opportunity to say Thank You to our Board Members and appointees for all of your hard work this past year. And, Thanks to our members and friends who have continually participated in our club activities workshops, classes, dances, demos, etc. Our club is successful because of you! We ll see you out dancing! Sue & Randy HAPPY 37TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE TWIRLERS! We will be honoring the following people at our Anniversary Dance. PAST PRESIDENTS Bob Alexander Randy and Sue Gibson Joe and Vi Henderson Ray Kellett Darlene Whiting Margie Zingg Barbara Canfield LIFE MEMBERS (15 years as a Twirler member, l0 years on the Board, 5 years as a class Angel) Bob Alexander Joe and Vi Henderson Ray Kellett Darlene Whiting Margie Zingg GOLDEN DANCERS (80 years young, an active dancing club member) We have two new Golden Dancers to award certificates to this year. Congratulations go to Ron Morris and Anita Puff. Previously awarded Golden Dancers are: Bob Alexander Bob Antell Judy Antell Larry Brown Henry Byle Bob Done Don Hayhurst Joe Henderson Vi Henderson Ben Jasinski Fran Jasinski Jeanne McCollum Wilbur Sanchez Earlean Wagner Redland s B n B s December 4 th Scatter visitation was well attended, bringing home a banner. Sue and Randy Gibson H Rosalie Nusser H Jackie and Bill Brown H Linda and Frank Bizzina H Ron Morris H Marie Schmidt H Steve Falgout H Darlene Whiting H Ray Kellett H Jim Kirsch H all made it to the special Spark of Love Toy Drive Dance. Our Official Visitation to Riverside Single Swingers on December 10 th was also a great turn out and a fantastic dance. Randy & Sue Gibson H Andy, Lorie & Ellie Abeles H Rosalie Nusser H Bob Alexander H Ray Kellett H Darlene Whiting H Wilbur & Karin Sanchez H Susan Westhoff H Les Smith H Marie Schmidt H Jim Kirsch H Nancy Welsh H Everyone had a great time dancing to a live band, had plenty of delicious food to eat, PLUS we brought home one of their banners! at Ken Bower s dance in Hemet on December 2 nd had quite a turn out with Randy & Sue Gibson H Wilbur & Karin Sanchez H Peter Madrid H Christa Wagner H Bill Done H Henry Byle H Marylou Hoffman Anita Puff was the lucky club member drawn to win the Visitation Pot last month. Unfortunately, she didn t attend a visitation last month. January s dance drawing will be for $15.00. If it goes unclaimed, it will grow by $5 each month. To be eligible to win, your name must be drawn; and have attended one of the Twirler s visitations and be at the Club Dance. Good reason to go out to the visitations! January February 2010 Page 3
Official Visitation for February 2011 * Club Outfits * Friday, February 18 th 7:30 Rounds 8:00 Squares Cowtown Singles Montana Sweetheart Dance Cowtown Square Dance Center 15950 Van Buren Blvd - Riverside Featuring Hunter Keller Calling Carol Allen, Cueing *Please wear your club outfit * Scatter Visitation Boy, December was a busy month! We hope your Holiday s were full of peace and joy and we wish all the best to each of you for a wonderful 2011. The visitations last month were great fun with large turn outs. We ve got a quick summary of the January visitations below, to get them on your calendar. And be sure to plan ahead for those February visitations too. For those of you working on filling up your Century Books, attending visitations are a great opportunity to get some new names in them. If you don t know what the Century Book is, ask any of the Board Members. Join us for these January visitations: Scatter to The Whirlaways on Friday, January 14 th - 7:00 Rounds 8:00 10:30 pm Squares at The Barn - 1950 Sycamore Dr., San Marcos - Jerry Jestin, Calling and Rey Garza, Cueing Official to the Wagon Train Squares on Saturday, January 22nd - 7:30 Rounds 8:00 Squares at Cowtown Square Dance Center - 15950 Van Buren Blvd Riverside Featuring Pat Carnathan Calling and Dawn Mee, Cueing Scatter on Saturday, January 29 th to the CCHA Hoedown Snow Ball Hop - 7:00 Rounds 7:00 10:30 pm Squares City of Banning Gymnasium 789 North San Gorgonio Ave. Banning featuring Cliff Simpson & Brent Lively calling with Shirley Ivins cueing Please be sure to plan on attending the CCHA Hoedown on January 29 th. It s important that we, as a club support, our master association. See you in a square! Lorie & Andy Friday, February 25 th 7:00 Rounds 8:00 10:30 pm Squares Riverside Singles Swingers Mardi Gras Celebration Dance Janet Goeske Center 5257 Sierra, Riverside Johnny Preston, Calling Neil Booth, Cueing Start the New Year off with a flurry. at our Snow Ball Hop! Saturday, January 29, 2011 CCHA Hoedown Where: City of Banning Gymnasium 789 North San Gorgonio Ave. Banning, CA 92220 Time: 7-7:30 P.M. Rounds 7:30 10:30 P.M. Squares Callers: Cliff Simpson & Brent Lively Cuer: Shirley Ivins (Donation: $7.00 per person) January February 2010 Page 4
Hello Everyone! Ahh, February. The month of Love. This, like November to me, is another month to thank those that I have in my life that I love dearly. It is also the month that, can be wacky and mess everyone up because of that silly spontaneously occurring extra day. Well, not so spontaneous but it can be difficult to keep track of. I hope you all enjoy your month and those that you love and that love you this month! We have many kind and generous club members! The donations of cash for shipping and items to supply the Boxes for Soldiers was very successful. When Randy & Sue took the donations to the Hemet Lodge, Gil Hodges, the representative was most appreciative and said to say Thank You to all that participated. Speaking of our generous club members, thank you for your donations to the Veteran s Memorial Fund. Your donations exceeded our goal, making it possible for The Twirlers to have a plaque in place at the Veteran s Memorial. 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, plan to attend April 8, 9 & 10, 2011. Did you know that each of you are welcome to join us at the monthly Board Meeting We re considering having an experienced clothing sale at our February 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 or helping out or buying. More details to come soon. A reminder that in February newsletter delivery will be electronic (by e-mail). You must inform me directly if you want paper. After this issue, only those that tell me that they would like a hard copy will be receiving one. Everyone else will only be getting a calendar as a hardcopy. This is in an effort to save the cost of paper and postage. Thank you for understanding. We are looking for businesses who would be interested in advertising in our monthly newsletter. This would greatly help to defray publishing 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 call Ellie or Lorie for more information. 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 February 4 th. Happy Dancing! Ellie Abeles January February 2010 Page 5
Born in California, Johnny began calling in 1976 while attending Wayne State University in Michigan. He is a full-time caller who travels across the United States and is often featured at festivals and resorts throughout the world - Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Germany, Holland, Japan, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Sweden. Johnny was also featured as a square dance caller in a national television ad for Ameritrade. Johnny is internationally known for his enthusiastic style and wonderful singing voice. Calling Basic to C-1, Johnny is always a crowd pleaser at dances. Dancers don't want to miss a dance when Johnny comes to town! Johnny is also the founder of Hoedowns for Humanity, a foundation created to raise friends and funds for local affiliates of Habitat for Humanity as well as awareness of the square dance activity throughout the country. Johnny lives in California with his two beautiful children Brittany and Wesley. WHO S IN MY SQUARE? OC Native? Anaheim High School graduate Favorite color is purple First pet s name was Heidi Started dancing in 1979 Past President of So Calif Clogging Assoc. Used to have a partner and started clogging Currently researching family history Member of a quilt guild First job was as an operator for Pacific Bell Worked for PB for 27 years Last month s was Andy Abeles. See you in a square! A On Johnny Preston Did you know that Ken Bower & Shirley Ivins have a new, weekly workshop & dance? Thursday from 3:30 till 6pm (or whenever everyone s tired). Location: Sierra Dawn Estates, Clubhouse #4 1050 San Marcos, Hemet 51 st California State Square Dance Convention San Diego April 8-10, 2011 Do you plan to attend? Many Twirlers are and we hope you are too! 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! 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. Lorie Abeles is selling tickets and is sure she has the Grand Prize in her batch of tickets to sell City of Canyon Lake 5K Walk/10K Run Saturday January 22 nd The Twirlers will have a booth at this city sponsored event. We will be selling brownies, cookies, granola/energy bars and other sweets which we will have, by the most part, purchased in bulk. We will need our club members to assist in re-packaging the purchased items (and perhaps in baking some brownies or cookies) and with selling. Operating times are 8am 2pm. Club and class members willing to help are urged to call Ray Kellett at 244-8236 January February 2010 Page 6
Come and join the party! Our Graduation and Advancement Party is January 12 th during our regular Wednesday workshop/class. The Phase 1 Class will be graduating two new dancers, Lisa Evans and Debbie Lumpkins. We have 6 people in Phase l that are advancing to the Phase 2 portion of the class. Happily, the members of new Phase 2 class will be able to assist the new Phase l class and at the same time, be reinforcing what they have already learned. We are still in need of Angels to dance with the gals learning the boy s part and to substitute when the dancing Angels need a break. Come join us for a fun evening. Spread the word, tell your friends and acquaintances to come check us out and see what fun we have! Class starts at 7pm and goes till 8:15 Don t miss out on your chance to win the Grand Prize, or second or third prize. All Raffle Ticket sales benefit the State Convention AND OUR CLUB! Lorie Abeles has raffle tickets for sale Be an Angel - come support the new class! Vic Karria - Class Caller/Instructor Be sure to pick-up class flyers and give them to anyone you think would enjoy square dancing. Offer to bring them to the first class to make sure they get there. The first class is free. Square Dance is making a come back! And Canyon Lake is where we want them to be with a great instructor and terrific club members! Did you know. In 1949, a group of far sighted men gathered seven clubs of the area together into an association for the purpose of fostering and promoting square dancing. These seven clubs represented areas in San Bernardino, Riverside and the East Los Angeles Area. In choosing the name for the association, they discovered that in the early days of California history, the legislators in Sacramento, who represented the area, were referred to as The Gentlemen from Cow Counties. It seemed appropriate that the association representing this area should also be known as the Cow Counties Hoedown Association (CCHA). The first hoedown was called a Stampede and was held on April 3, 1949 at the Urbita Ballroom. This ballroom was a landmark in San Bernardino, situated in a shaded park with a lake adding to the atmosphere. The primary purpose was and still is, To Foster and Promote Square Dancing. The term Square Dancing now includes round dancing, contra, clogging, line and western dancing as parts of the activity. The CCHA now holds a Hoedown Dance each 5 th Saturday of the month during the year. These Hoedown Dances draw dancers from many surrounding counties for a great dance. The members of the Cow Counties Hoedown Association are proud of their many achievements. Probably the most outstanding of these is the National Square Dance Convention which had its origin in Riverside in 1952. Little did those who planned that event realize to what proportions this annual affair would grow. California again had the honor of hosting the National Convention in 1976 when we celebrated the 25 th Anniversary of the National which was held in Anaheim, California. No Officer, Director or Representative of the CCHA receives any financial compensation for a year of very hard work. The real compensation comes from a feeling of having done something to keep square dancing the wholesome, clean, and noncommercial activity that it is. This is your Association - - - It exists to be of service to you. Volunteers are always needed and welcome in YOUR Club and in your Association January February 2010 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 Linda & Frank Bezzina 672-2498 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 Diane Gallagher 244-2854 January February 2010 Page 8