Lakeshore Squares

Lakeshore Square Dancers believe in having fun! We enjoy our times together dancing and exercising to music. Square Dancing is a lighter form of exercise yet still benefitting the body. In addition to its health improvements, we create a family of friends. The First Presbyterian Church is gracious to allow us the opportunity to use their gym. We are very grateful. Square dancing involves four couples that listen to a call and dance patterns learned. It is fun and invigorating. The four couples make a square and dance one tip, consists of a patter call and a singing call. Square dancing has been around since the 17th century. It is first known from England but is very popular in France and Europe. It contains many similarities to the Scottish Country Dancing. There are two types of square dancing: Traditional and Modern Western. The Traditional form is danced to country dance music such as Irish jigs and reels and generally performed live with instruments of fiddle, banjo, guitar and double bass. Modern Western is danced to a variety of music ranging from pop to contemporary to traditional to broadway musical to country. It is often recorded music and the beat faster. Lakeshore Squares dance with modern western music, a blend of various hits over the years. We encourage all ages to join and learn square dance routines. It is a great social and physical avenue to have fun and exercise. We have classes that begin once a year in the fall. There are three classes that our club focuses on to get you started into square dancing – basic, mainstream and plus. Come take dance lessons with us and join in on the fun!

Chris Townley / Anita Maxwell Lake Shore Squares Presidents

The Prez Says

Hello to all our fellow square dancers We seem to be having great turn-outs for our dances so far this year, and we hope that trend continues. Our most recent dance was Lake Shore Squares Graduation Dance. We had over 110 people in attendance that night, and welcomed 12 new Graduates into our ranks. We are proud to have then join us, and look forward to many more years of enjoying their company.

Also at our previous dance, Shirley Wilson started having FREE Cha-Cha classes that will continue on before each of our regular dances. We had about 40 people show up for classes each night so far. Nice to see such a large group coming early for the fun, and instructions. It sure is a lot of fun. It will continue on for several more weeks. Please come and join us. Classes begin at 7:00 pm and go until almost 8:00 pm. This replaced our normal ’early rounds’ for the near future. We hope many people will take advantage of these free classes, and folks will come Cha-Cha with us.

Our next dance on March 6th we will have our Wearing O’ the Green St. Paddy’s Dance Ken Perkins will be calling, with Shirley Wilson cueing. SO get out your green, and come join us for a night of fun and excitement.

It’s coming up quickly, so I want to take a minute to make sure everyone knows about our Anniversary Dance we are having on March 20th. We’ll be celebrating 46 wonderful years as a club. I want to personally invite all the members from our sister clubs, and especially want to invite everyone who is a member, or has ever been a member of Lake Shore Squares to please attend that night. We understand that we are one of the oldest clubs in the state, and are proud of that fact. It is hard to keep something going for this long without the work and effort of a lot of people over these many years. We want to show our appreciation, and hope to have a big crowd in attendance. Ken Perkins will be calling, and I’m sure he’ll have something up his sleeve.

I also want to make everyone aware we will be collecting items to send to all our brave soldiers stationed over seas. We’ll have a benefit dance for that a few months from now, and admission for that dance will be items for our troops.

I wanted to make everyone aware so you could be on the look-out for needed items and get them when you saw a sale. Down below I am going to provide a list below to give people some idea of the many items needed for our troops. If we all can starting saving items now,.. we should be able to have a nice collection to show our troops just how much we appreciate their sacrifices.

Please get out and dance. Square dancers are some of the finest people we have ever had the pleasure of dealing with. It is an honor to know all of you. We hope you’ll come and visit us soon and often.

Chris Townley / Anita Maxwell Lake Shore Squares Presidents

Troop Supplies

Chris & Anita 2009 NEEDED TROOPS SUPPLIES — items include: As far as magazines I would try and get things that are NOT time sensitive. (you know,.. stuff like sports magazines that cover last years Super Bowl, or NBA Playoffs, etc). Magazines that might be good choices are:… Readers Digest, Gardening, Handyman, Horticulture, Fly Fisherman, Bass Master, Field & Stream, In-Fisherman, Hunting, Guns & Ammo, Buck Masters, Bow Hunting, Cycleworld, Motorcycle, Road & Track, Hot Rod, Street Rod, Super Chevy, Classic Cars, Super Street, Muscle Machines, Classic Trucks, Truckin’, Street trucks, etc. PLEASE NOTE: Also include any unsealed letters or cards. Troops love getting letters from the homeland, and it’s nice to show them how much we appreciate all they do for us. Additional suggestions: Batteries, Pens & Pencils, disposable cameras, stationary & envelopes, playing cards, nerf football, paper back books, Frisbees, zip lock bags, microwave popcorn, Crystal Light, Gator-ade Mix, foot powder, puzzle books, small flashlights for night reading, phone cards, disposable razors, shampoo, eye drops, band-aids, dust masks, soap, dusting cloths, baby wipes, hand / body lotion and magazines. Cash donations are also appreciated for shipping these items.

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