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Volume 3, No. 3

Thompson-Shuswap & Okanagan Square & Round Dance News

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HOLIDAY ISSUE

Published in Salmon Arm, BC

REPRESENTING PRESERVATION, PROMOTION & PERPETUATION

OF SQUARE, ROUND, CONTRA, CLOGGING & RELATED DANCE

NOVEMBER 2015

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T-SS&RDA 3/4 Dance Poster 2

T-SS&RDA Executive 4

OSRDA Executive 4

BCS&RD Federation Executive 5

Well Rounded Square Information 5

Subscription Rates 5

WRS Submission Guidelines 6

T-SS&RDA Dance Schedule 6

B.C.S. & R.D. Federation 7

From the Editor’s Desk 7

Greetings from the OSRDA 8

Club Directory 9

Holiday Breaks 12

Penticton Squares Christmas Dinner & Dance 12

Enderby River Dancers Vacation Time 12

Ta’Lana Twirlers Christmas Party Night 13

Kamloops Square Dancers Christmas Potluck & Dance 13

Valentine Greeting Submissions 13

2016 Calendar 14

The WELL ROUNDED SQUARE Thompson-Shuswap & Okanagan Dance News

Serving Square & Round Dancers, Contra & Cloggers throughout British Columbia

Article: Dee Jackins, Calgary 17

Enderby River Dancers Merry Christmas 19

Poem: Puppies 19

Keeping Up With Merv & Sandy 20

Thompson Valley Stars Greeting 21

Thompson Valley Stars Mainstream 21

Thompson Valley Stars Plus 21

R & R Rounders Greeting 21

Article: F.R.E.D. 22

Puzzle: Name that Tune 23

Chase the Fun 2016 24

Sew It Awl 25

Article: 'WTF' Space Junk Meets Fiery Demise 26

Puzzle Answers: How Superstitious Are You? 27

Index 27

Star Country Squares Greeting 16

Westsyde Squares Greeting 16

Nelson’s Tuesday Plus Greeting 16

HOL.IDAY ISSUE 2015 VOLUME 3, NO. 3

IN THIS ISSUE

ISSN 2292‐213X

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THOMPSON-SHUSWAP SQUARE & ROUND DANCE ASSOCIATION

EXECUTIVE MEMBERS President: BILL WOOD, Salmon Arm

(250) 833-9227 [email protected]

Past President: PAULA WEIR, Salmon Arm (250) 832-5046 [email protected]

1st Vice President: GEORGE ALISON, Eagle Bay (250) 675-5375 [email protected]

2nd Vice President: MERV MEYER, Kamloops (250) 376-5636 [email protected]

Secretary: MARIANN SANFORD, Blind Bay (250) 675-3866 [email protected]

Treasurer: MIKE MURRELL, Blind Bay (250) 675-4495 [email protected]

Publicity: NANCY ALISON, Eagle Bay (250) 675-5375 [email protected]

Round Dance Co-ordinator: WENDY & ERNIE WINTERHALDER, Enderby


Historian: SUSAN MCCORMICK, Kamloops (250) 573-0066 [email protected]

Hall Co-ordinator: PAULA WEIR, Salmon Arm (250) 832-5046 [email protected]

Awards Chair: ALLEN & LEXIE EBL, Salmon Arm (250) 832-4723 [email protected]

Webmaster Region 9: JEAN WOOD, Salmon Arm (250) 833-9227 [email protected]

Year Dangles: LINDA PARKER Four Score and More badges: LINDA PARKER Dance Convenor: BERYL MURRELL Meeting Convenor: WERNER MATHYS Federation Delegates: BILL & JEAN WOOD, Salmon Arm ALLEN & LEXIE EBL, Salmon Arm Alternate Federation Delegates: MERV & SANDY MEYER, Kamloops GEORGE & NANCY ALISON, Eagle Bay

OKANAGAN SQUARE & ROUND DANCE ASSOCIATION

EXECUTIVE MEMBERS President: BILL MOREY, Penticton


Vice President: Bob Byrne, Vernon (250) 549-4318 Secretary: CARLA GYLE, Westsyde


Treasurer: LYNDA COLAUTTI, Kelowna (250)768-3855

[email protected] Publicist: DIANE TUCKER, Oliver


FEDERATION DELEGATES: BILL MOREY, Penticton BRIAN ELMER, Westsyde ROSALYN GARNETT, Westsyde BETH MCGIFFORD, Penticton Alternate Federation Delegates: CARLA GYLE, Westsyde BOB CARLGREN, Westsyde

CLUB DELEGATES TO OSRDA: Enderby River Dancers GRACE BYRNE, Delegate WENDY WINTERHALDER, Delegate Free Spirit Dancers BOB CARLGREN, Delegate CARLA GYLE, Delegate Got 2B Cloggin LYNDA COLAUTTI, Delegate Okanagan Cloggin LYNDA COLAUTTI, Representative Penticton Squares BETH MCGIFFORD, Delegate ED EMERY, Delegate R & R Rounders REGINE ANDERSON, Delegate Rhythm Rounds REGINE ANDERSON, Delegate Star Country Squares PETER & STELLA TENNANT, Delegates Westsyde Squares BRIAN ELMER, Delegate LYNDA BJALEK, Delegate Westsyde Youth BRIAN ELMER, Representative


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B.C. SQUARE & ROUND DANCE FEDERATION

EXECUTIVE MEMBERS President: KEN & SALLY CRISP


Past President: NORM COX


1st Vice President: BILL WOOD


2nd Vice President: GORDON RUEDIG


Secretary: WENDY KRUEGER


Treasurer: PAT ZEEMAN


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Thompson-Shuswap Square & Round Dance

Association Dances

Chase Community Hall 547 Shuswap Ave., Chase BC

Panel Of Callers & Cuers

January 17 3/4 Dance MC: Allan Peterson

February 21 Valentines Dance MC: Mariann Sanford

March 20 St Patrick’s Day Dance MC: Sandy Meyer

April 17 AGM & Freshman’s Frolic MC: Merv Meyer

12 noon to 1:30 pm Regional Meeting

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FOUND

A pair of Ladies leather shoes, size 7 1/2, that were left in the dance hall at “Chase the Fun” on the Father’s day weekend.

If you are missing a pair of shoes please email Merv Meyer with the colour of the shoes.

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B. C. SQUARE & ROUND DANCE FEDERATION www.squaredance.bc.ca

facebook: www.facebook.com/BCSquareAndRoundDanceFederation Twitter: @bcfeddancenews @bcfedlive

Email: [email protected] 1 - 800 - 335 - 9433

B.C.S. & R.D.FEDERATION

The Executive of the British Columbia Square and Round Dance Federation would like to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year

with lots of fun filled dancing.

Ken Crisp, Bill Wood, Gord Ruedig, Pat Zeeman and Wendy Krueger

From the Editor’s Desk We wish you the very best of the coming Christmas Season and that you enjoy being with family and friends during the Square Dance Christmas Break.

You may have noticed that we, (Jean and Bill), have not been around the dance floor very much over the last month or more. We will not be back to Square Dancing until after the new year. We are having some health issues that just won't go away, though nothing terribly serious, just nag-ging and frustrating.

We hope that everything is going well for all the clubs that have new dancers and the lessons will continue into the new year. It will be really good for all of our clubs to enjoy new members.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you. We hope to see most of you, somewhere in a square, in the new year.


The dance season is well under way and I will be traveling around, as I did last season, and join the clubs in a fun night of dancing. It is good to see that there are several clubs in the region that have new dancer sessions running and hopefully we can retain them as club members. Remem-ber! For our activity to move forward we need new dancers more than they need us. As we become more experienced dancers we tend to become more impatient and less tolerant of the more novice dancers. Some of them will more than likely become members of your executive and very probably good friends. The next meeting of the OSRDA will be on Dec. 6th at 12 noon at the West Kelowna Sr. Centre. All regional dancers are invited to attend to share your in-put. At the conclusion of this meeting, novice callers are invited to get some floor time from 2 - 3 pm and use the members present for a practice square. Bill Morey, President, OSRDA

Season’s Greetings Okanagan Square & Round Dance Association

The Thompson-Shuswap Square & Round Dance Association’s

next regional meeting will be held on

12 pm on January 17th, 2015 preceding the

3/4 Dance at 2 pm. Chase Community Hall


Kamloops Square Dancers Kamloops

Plus * Round St. Paul’s Cathedral Hall

360 Nicola Street Wednesday Night Plus 7:30 - 9:30 pm Caller: Bill Morrison & June Towhey

Cuer: Norm Dobbs kamloopssquaredancers.squaredance.bc.ca

For more information, please contact. Brent and Karen Olson (250) 376-4692

[email protected]

Gold Classic Dancers Chase

Round Dance Phase 2+ 3 & 3+

Chase Community Hall 547 Shuswap Avenue

Tuesday Afternoons 1:30 - 3:30 pm Cuer: Norm Dobbs

For more information, please contact. Norm Dobbs: (250) 372-2786

Bee Jay Dancers Kamloops

Mainstream * New Dancer Lessons St. Paul’s Anglican Church

360 Nicola Street Tuesday Nights 7:30 - 9:30 pm

Caller: Bill Morrison & June Towhey

For more information, please contact Bill Morrison & June Towhey: (250) 374-0277

[email protected] [email protected]

CLUBS IN THE THOMPSON-SHUSWAP & OKANAGAN

Salmon Arm Round Dance Club Salmon Arm

Round Dance Sampler The Library

Downtown Activity Centre 451 Shuswap St S

Monday Nights 7 - 9 pm Cuer: Jim Ellis

For more in formation, please contact Jim Ellis (250) 832-4233

[email protected]

Salmon Arm Squares Salmon Arm Mainstream

Fifth Avenue Seniors’ Activity Centre 170 5th Avenue, SW Wednesday Evenings

Mainstream 8 - 10 pm Round Dance - Last Wednesday of the month

Caller: Donelle Dreaper salmonarmsquares.squaredance.bc.ca

For more information please contact Bernie Onderwater (250) 835-8205

[email protected]

Ta'lana Twirlers Blind Bay

New Dancer * Mainstream * Round Dance Blind Bay Community Hall

2510 Blind Bay Road Thursday Nights starting at 6:30 pm

Caller: Peter Weel & Leora Lane Cuer: Mariann Sanford

talanatwirlers.squaredance.bc.ca

For more information ,please contact George & Nancy Alison: (250) 675-5375

Email: [email protected]


Thompson Valley Stars Kamloops & Chase

West Coast * Mainstream * Plus * Round New Dancer Lessons

Kamloops Desert Gardens Community Centre

540 Seymour Street Thursday Nights 7 - 10 pm

Westcoast New Dancer 7 - 8:30 pm Mainstream 8:30 - 10 pm

Meyer Dance Studio Review & Dance Plus Tuesdays 7 - 9:30 pm

Phase 2 waltz & 2 step lessons Wednesday - 7 - 9:30 pm

Chase - Plus Chase Community Hall

547 Shuswap Avenue Friday Afternoons 1:30 - 4 pm

Caller: Merv Meyer Cuer: Sandy Meyer

Web: thompsonvalleystars.squaredance.bc.ca

For more in formation, please contact Merv & Sandy Meyer (250) 376-5636

[email protected]

Got 2 B Cloggin Kelowna & West Kelowna

Clogging - Beginner * Easy * Intermediate Advanced Kelowna

Okanagan Boys & Girls Club 1434 Graham Road

Monday Evenings starting at 6 pm

West Kelowna Westsyde Seniors’ Centre 3361 Old Okanagan Hwy

Saturday Mornings - Advanced - 9 - 11 am Okanagan Boys & Girls Club

2829 Inverness Road Wednesday Evenings, starting at 6 pm

Instructor: Lynda Colautti, CCI

For more information, please contact Lynda Colautti

(250768-3855 or (250) 718-3088 [email protected]

Enderby River Dancers Enderby

Mainstream * Rounds Enderby Senior’s Centre

1101 Highway 97A Across from the red basket

Friday Evenings 7 - 9:30 pm Caller/Cuer: Alan & Laura Peterson www.riverdancers.squaredance.bc.ca

For more information please contact Robert and Grace Byrne ( 250) 549-4318

[email protected]

Nelson’s Tuesday Morning Plus Vernon

Plus Schubert Centre

3505 30th Ave. Tuesday Mornings 9 to 11:30 am

Caller: Nelson & Kadie Reeme

For more in formation, please contact Nelson or Kadie (250) 545-2259

[email protected]

Okanagan Cloggin’ West Kelowna

Clogging - Beginner * Easy * Intermediate Westsyde Seniors’ Centre 3361 Old Okanagan Hwy

Monday Evenings starting at 6 pm Instructor: Barbara Bizovie www.okanagancloggin.com

For more information, please contact: Barbara Bizovie: (250) 768-8557 [email protected]


R & R Rounders Penticton

Rounds for New Dancers * Phase II & IV Seniors Drop In Centre

2965 South Main St. Sunday afternoons starting at 1 pm

Cuer: Regine Anderson rounders.squaredance.bc.ca

For more information please contact Regine Anderson: (250) 493-4248

[email protected]

Rhythm Rounds Vernon

Round Dance Phase II, II+ & III+ & IV Teaching/Reviewing Intermediate Figures

Sundays 2 - 4 pm * Tuesdays 1 - 3 pm 5484 25th Ave. (Big Chief Hall)

For more information, please contact. Cuer/Teachers: Peter and Stella Tennant


Penticton Squares

Penticton Mainstream * Plus * Round

New Dancer Lessons

Lawn Bowling Club 260 Brunswick St.

Tuesday Nights starting at 6:30 pm Caller: Ralph Halsall

Cuer: Regine Anderson penticton.squaredance.bc.ca

For more in formation, please contact. Judy and Flemming Ekelund [email protected]

250-493-0261 Star Country Squares

Vernon Mainstream * Rounds

Knox Presbyterian Church 3701 32nd Ave.

Wednesday Nights 7: - 9 pm Caller: Nelson & Kadie Reeme

Cuer: Allan Peterson starc.squaredance.bc.ca/

For more information, please contact Mike Leach

Email: [email protected]

New Dancer Class Helina Seniors Centre

3310 37th Ave. Thursday Nights 7 - 9 pm

Caller/Instructor – Allan Peterson For more information, please contact

Darlene Poetker (778) 475-1889 Email: [email protected]

Westsyde Squares West Kelowna

New Dancer * Mainstream * Rounds Westbank United Church Hall

3672 Brown Rd. Wednesday Nights

New Dancer 6 - 7:30 pm Mainstream 7:30 - 9:45 pm

2 Rounds between tips Caller: Dustin McGifford Cuer: Regine Anderson

westsyde.squaredance.bc.ca

For more in formation, please contact Lynda Bjalek (250) 763-0084

[email protected] or Ron McMullen (250)769-5446

[email protected]

Westsyde Youth Team Dance Club Kelowna, West Kelowna, Peachland

Team Dancing Tuesday Nights

www.westsideyouth.squaredance.bc.ca

For more in formation, please contact Brian and Rosalyn (250) 768-2694

[email protected]


HOLIDAY BREAKS Enderby River Dancers, Enderby Merry Christmas Party - Dec. 11th; Return - Jan. 8th

Kamloops Square Dancers, Kamloops Last Dance - Dec. 3rd; Return - Jan. 6th Christmas Potluck & Dance - Dec. 12th

Nelson’s Tuesday Plus, Vernon Last Dance - Dec. 15th; Return - Jan. 5th

Penticton Squares, Penticton Christmas Dinner & Dance - Dec. 15th; Return - Jan. 5th

R&R Rounders, Penticton Last Dance - Dec 20th; Return January 10th

Salmon Arm Squares, Salmon Arm Potluck & Dance - Dec 16th; Return Jan 6th

Star Country Squares, Vernon Christmas Coffee Night - Dec. 16th; Return - Jan. 6th New Dancers Last Dance - Dec. 17th; Return - Jan. 7th

Ta’Lana Twirlers, Blind Bay Christmas Party - Dec. 11th; Return - Jan. 14th

Thompson Valley Stars Round Dance Lessons, Kamloops Last Dance - Dec. 16th; Return Jan. 6th Mainstream & New Dancers, Kamloops Last Dance - Dec. 17th; Return - Jan 7th

Plus, Chase Last Dance - Dec. 18th; Return - Jan. 8th

Westsyde Squares, West Kelowna Potluck & Dance - Dec 9th; Return - Jan 6th


Ta’Lana Twirlers Christmas Party Night (poster above) will start with

Pre-Rounds at 7 pm.

Hi Folks,

If you’ll notice, this magazine is a lot smaller than past issues.

That’s because I’m having a lot of trou-ble filling space by myself!

Please send me your articles, club infor-mation and/or posters.

Thanks, Jean Wood, Editor


Westsyde Squares will be holding their Christmas and Graduation dance on Wednesday December 9, 2015. This will be our last dance until after the holidays. It will be a Potluck Supper at 6:00 pm with Graduation at 7:00 pm and dancing till 9:30 pm with coffee/tea and goodies after.

We are hoping to Graduate 14 danc-ers from the Caller Lab Condensed Teaching. These Graduates will then be dancing in the Club and the Club will bring down their weekly dancing to dance to the Graduates level. This will give the Graduates 4 months of floor time and hopefully be accom-plished Mainstream dancers.

Westsyde Squares will be back on the dance floor on Wednesday January 6, 2016.

Westsyde Squares would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with Love and lots of New Dancers to lift up our Club membership.

Star Country Squares will have their Christmas Coffee Night on December 16th from 7 - 9 p.m. at the Knox Pres-byterian Church in Vernon. That's also the night we invite representatives from Transition House and Life Skills to pick up Christmas gifts donated by our Club Membership and our New Dancer Class. Twelve boxes of gifts were donated by Star Country Mem-bers and the New Dancer Class for Christmas 2014 and we have done this since 2000. We will resume dancing January 7th, 2016.

Star Country Squares wishes everyone a very Merry Christmas and good health in the New Year and beyond.

Merry Christmas from your friends at Nelson’s Tuesday Morning

Plus Dancing,

We wish all of you the Joys of the Season and

All the Best for the Coming Year.


DEE JACKINS, Calgary

Dancing has been a part of my life since Junior High. Born and raised in Radville, Saskatchewan, we took every opportunity to go dancing, whether it was a school dance, wedding or just a community af-fair. What better way to learn than a good old country dance?

When I moved to Calgary in 1961, one of the first things on my agenda was to find the dance halls. Does anyone remember Penley’s, The Gardens, Isle Of Capri and even The Lone Pine? I mar-ried in 1965 and raised two children. Now I have three grandchildren and two great

grandsons. My husband was not a dancer, but I convinced him to try and away we went.

We joined the Queens and Jacks in 1969 and danced with them for three years. We took in all the activities possible and collected badges for all the silly things that we could pull off. I’m still in contact with some of the friends we made and look forward to our visits when-ever possible. As time went by we got busy in other activities including ballroom dance les-sons and square dancing was put on the back burner.

My eye problems had already started and were getting more severe. Eyes are sympathetic - it started with iritis and graduated to retinitis, uveitis and optic neuritis along with glau-coma. My eyes were getting inflamed every year on a regular basis and when the optic nerve is inflamed it takes its toll. The sight in my left

eye was gone by 1975 and four years later I had to quit working and quit driving (that was hard, my independence was gone). The doctor re-ferred me to the University Hospital in San Francisco to be examined by eight special-ists. The results were the same and nothing further could be done. I kept busy doing oil painting, volunteering at the Grandparent Pro-gram and of course social dancing whenever possible. By December of 1988 my sight had deteriorated to 20/400. I was heavily medicated with prednisone to try and save the little sight I had but now it was affecting the bone mar-row. There was no choice but to taper off and pray, but it wasn't in God's plan. By the end of January, 1989 my vision was gone.

The next few years were years of adjustment in more ways than one. While coping with my blindness and trying to reorganize my life, my husband was diagnosed with cancer and after fighting this disease for ten months he suc-cumbed in October of 1991. I continued volun-teering at the Grandparent Program and played crib at the CNIB. I joined ASRAB (Alberta Sports and Recreation Association For The Blind). I was determined to get out and do things and that I did. With this group we toured Southern Alberta and visited points of interest, lawn bowling, house boating in the Shuswap, para-sailing, horseback riding, white water raft-ing at Kicking Horse Pass (Actually I’m glad I couldn’t see what was going on!)

One of the best highlights for me after going blind was in 1992, when my sisters and I took our Mother on her 80th birthday down to see her brother in Minnesota. We stopped at Eatons in Regina, Saskatchewan to buy a gift for her. The clerk told us that Red Skelton was just down this aisle. Well, he's my favorite come-dian and away we went. When he spotted my cane, he grinned from ear to ear and pushed the power button on his scooter and headed straight


for us. He stopped right in front of me and said, "I'm Red Skelton. I used to be the Vice Presi-dent of the Braille Institute Of America. Do you have time for a joke?" With stogie in one hand he shook my hand with the other and com-menced his joke. I managed to get an autograph on the back of my cheque. By this time a crowd of people had gathered and his agent was not very happy but everyone else was. He made my day.

Then one day while volunteering at the Grand-parent Program a long-time friend, Marilyn Dawes was visiting. She mentioned she had gone back square dancing with the Swinging Singles and would I be interested in coming back. I couldn’t believe my ears, can you square dance when you’re blind? Sam Stead was the caller back then and after approaching him on this matter he had no problem with it. This I was looking forward to and could hardly wait for the fall to begin. That was in 1995 and I have never looked back. The members were accept-ing and helpful, it was time to dance again.

As the weeks went by, it was all coming back. I had to adjust for certain moves but I was visualizing this in my mind’s eye. When Sam taught us the Weave, I knew skirt work was part of it so for now I would just keep my hands down so no-body would get hit. “WRONG!” As I was weaving I heard this “UMPH”. My fears had been realized. I apologized profusely and laughter took over. I thought to myself that this had to be just an accident, so I continued to keep my hands down. “WRONG!” It hap-

pened again! "UMPH" --poor Charlie. That was it. From there on and to this day, that is why my hands are up on the weave. If every-one would just “touch” my hands as I go by, it makes it easier for everyone. I’ve learned to dance by definition, so whenever someone pulls, pushes or grabs me I lose concentration and will more than likely break down the square.

In the years following I attended most of the dances involving visiting clubs, beginner Jam-boree’s, CD Specials, Conventions and not to forget the Kirby Center in the summer time. It was good practice and dancing to other callers was a welcome challenge. It didn’t take long before Round Dancing, Plus and Advance 1 and 2 came into the picture and I started venturing out to other cities and provinces to take in their

special dances. Visiting a few states across the border allowed me to take in a lot of lessons during the day and dance to my heart’s content in the evening. I have met the most wonderful people in this world of Square Dancing, friendships made and a lot of enjoyment over the years.

The question I asked so many years ago, “Can a blind person Square Dance?” Yes, most of the square dancers are

understanding, helpful and forgiving. Forgiv-ing? Yes, when I’m in a square there could be somebody checking, tripping, clipping from behind or hooking. H-m-m-m, just about sounds like a hockey game.

To sum it all up - “Faith, Optimism, Deter-mination” and let’s not forget Humor are the words of the day. “SEE” you across the square!


Puppies’ Christmas ~ Anon

It’s the day before Christmas And all through the house The puppies are squeaking

An old rubber mouse.

The wreath which had merrily Hung on the door

Is scattered in pieces All over the floor.

The stockings that hung In a neat little row

Now boast a hole in Each one of the toes.

The tree was subjected To bright-eyed whims,

And now, although splendid, It’s missing some limbs.

I catch them and hold them. “Be good”, I insist.

They lick me, then run off To see what they’ve missed.

And now as I watch them The thought comes to me,

That their’s is the spirit That Christmas should be.

Should children and puppies Yet show us the way, And teach us the joy

That should come with this day?

Could they bring the message That’s written above,

And tell us that, most of all Christmas is love.


Keeping up with Merv & Sandy

Barely a week after the Meyers danced at ‘ R a l l y - I n - T h e -Valley’ in Chilli-wack; they headed for the first time, to the Radium Jamboree on June 12th and 13th. This was held at the Radium Community Hall. After 6 hours of steady driving, they still had enough en-ergy to dance on Friday night, along with 21 squares (168 dancers), from 8 – 10 pm. With callers Gary Winter of Edmon-ton and Barry Sjolin of Penticton con-stantly teasing each other, and the high energy of dancing, the time ‘flew’ by! Ice-cream with a choice of toppings and ice-cream wafers capped the evening.

On Saturday morning, Mainstream dancing started at 9 until 11 am. Some of the dancers went golfing for the afternoon; some went to the Hot Springs. It was a nice re-laxing break. There were-

‘Radium Hot Springs Jamboree’ By Sandy Meyer

n’t too many places to dine out, so many of the dancers had dinner together.

P r e - R o u n d s b y Regine Anderson of Penticton started Sat-urday evening at 7:30 until 8:00, then high energy Mainstream dancing, with lots of

photo-taking by our most welcomed and passionate couple from Calgary, James and Grace Chen. Besides the Chens join-ing everyone and sharing their natural enthusiasm, was the exciting news from Hans Freitag himself, that he and Ev

Szaroz had quietly got mar-ried on June 10th. Everyone was thrilled and very happy for them.

With the final count of 22 squares in attendance, some even dancing outside, this was the best attended Radium Jamboree yet. Everyone had a wonderful time and it was said that 120 dancers have already pre-registered for next year’s dance.


The mainstream Tuesday night club and the Thursday night new dancers both continue to be very active.

We have 19 new dancers that have stayed on and are working hard at learning all the moves. We also have 2 new dancers doing just Round Dancing

We have a small group working on the Plus moves and that is also progressing. Jake Doerk-sen one of our most enthusias-tic dancers has just had a full knee replacement and is doing

well.

We had a great turn out for our Hallow-een Dance and everyone had a great time.

Submitted by Ellen Seminoff Club Rep Mainstream TV Stars

The T. V. Stars Plus Club dance Friday afternoons from 1:30 to 4:00 pm in the Chase Community Hall. Sandy cues Phase II + III pre-Rounds at 1:30 pm, & Rounds between tips. The Plus dance is from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. Merv will be doing a review of all Plus moves for the newer Plus dancers, (not a full teach); this may be helpful for others as well. This season runs from Oct. 9th, 2015 until April 28th, 2016. There will be no dancing on November 6th, December 25th, January 1st or March 25th. Please join us anytime. Marg Montalbetti TV Stars Plus rep.


F.R.E.D. Jean Wood

If you're like me, most of you use a computer (in some form) on a daily basis. This can be the desktop behemoth, the portable laptop or note-book, the even more portable tablet, and yes, that cell phone that connects you to the rest of the world.

That's just barely scratching the surface. We don't even see most of the myriad of uses for computer chips. I'm sure my mixer and my mi-crowave are plotting to take over my kitchen. I wonder if they want to repaint while they're at it.

Let's not forget those computer dialled telemar-keters and surveyers that catch you right as you're digging into that nice hot supper. I love it when "they" ask you to wait for a customer service representative and then proceed to put you on hold.

I, myself, started using computers in 1980 when I worked at the, then, Grace Hospital in Vancou-ver. One didn't see the computer (room) from the desk. There were these twisted knots of unimag-inable proportions. These proceeded to slither into something that resembled the basic block of a monitor that was in vogue for many years.

I had no experience with computers so what does the powerful wizard of the software tell me to do? Play Games! That's how I learned to use a computer. It's also a technique that I would use in later years when I was teaching classes on how to use a computer. Don't tell anyone, but I still use that technique when the computer has ren-dered me senseless.

For a while now, I've been battling with my com-puter; aptly named "Stealth". At least that's what the system told me every time that I booted it up and it did prove to be able to sneak up on me at the most inopportune times.

In the not too distant past, my computer decided that it wanted to take a vacation and forgot to leave a forwarding address. I tried to reinstall the

operating system again and again and .... You get the picture. It turned out that one of my RAM modules had short-circuited and like I said, went on a vacation. In case you're not sure what RAM is, it's Random Access Memory. It tells your computer packets where to go.

I reinstalled the operating system and off I went.

Until the next time.

Thankfully I back up everything on a second hard drive! This time the computer hard drive decided that it didn't want to play in the same techno-box anymore so it resigned it's position of lead hand.

I replaced this and proceeded to reinstall my op-erating system. Everything worked fine so off I went with my software, a few bits and bytes, and trusty keyboard and mouse.


In the not quite so distant past, I turned on my computer and... nothing!

I tried everything that I could think of to get that 'ahem' thing running again. I ended up replacing the motherboard. Yeah, that thing that controls every aspect of a computer.

I have now changed the identity of my computer. It now tells me that it's 'Military Class 4' when I boot it up. Okay! Now we're going somewhere!


Remember that second hard drive that I used to back up all my data?

Yeah, well… I now have another computer that sports the name, Predator!

I guess that I've reached an age when I can't pos-sibly keep up with all the latest technology so I'm just going to take a page from my husband's book and call all the electronic devices FRED.


Submitted by Leora Lane

The following letters represent each of the words in the title of which Christmas Songs?

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Pettipants Shoe Tote

around ¾ inch from the fold to make a tunnel for the ties.

7. Make bar tacks over the seam line at the top edge and stitching line of the tunnel on both the front and back seams. With your seam ripper pick open the seam between the bar tacks on the right side (outside) of the tote.

8. Insert one of the long ties in the front opening and work it all the way around until it comes out the same opening. Tie the ends together. Repeat with the back seam. When you pull the ties they will work against each other to shut the tote.

9. Make a one half inch wide tunnel around the bottom of the legs. Insert some cord and pull it tight. Tie a knot and work the knot inside the tunnel.

Now that you have the basic idea, you can vary the pattern to suit yourself. Even people who don’t dance like these shoe totes. They are a great way to pack shoes for travel.

This is a quick project that can be made from almost any fabric. Make one for every pair of shoes. Make them for Christmas gifts or door prizes. Decorate with lace or ribbons.

Materials

1. Pattern paper 16 x 16 inches

2. Fabric to cut two of pattern

3. As much lace as you want

4. 2 pieces of cord 26” long for the pulls

5. 2 short pieces of cord

Instructions

1. Make the pattern following the diagram and cut two of fabric.

2. Sew lace across the leg area on the right side, starting two inches above the bottom edge.

3. Place the pieces right sides together and sew a half inch seam down the sides like the stitch-ing line in the diagram.

4. Fold the tote in half with the seams on top of each other making legs. Sew the leg seams.

5. Press both top seams open. Tuck 2 inch long strips of fuse webbing under the seam allow-ances at the top edge and press. This keeps the seam allowances flat when the ties are inserted and reinforces the openings.

6. Fold the top (waist) of the pettipants over one inch, toward the inside, and stitch all the way


'WTF' Space Junk Meets Fiery Demise as Scientists Watch

By Sarah Lewen, Staff Writer for Space.com

November 13, 2015 11:45am ET

The mysterious space junk WT1190F fell from the sky this morning, and scientists had a flying, ringside seat as the object burned up in multicolored fireballs.

A new video of the falling WT1190F shows the first observations taken by a worldwide collaboration of researchers watching from a Gulfstream 450 business jet as the object returned to Earth to meet its fiery doom.

European Space Agency officials suggest the debris is likely from an old rocket mission, and the science team's analysis should help reveal the space junk's ultimate origin.

The object re-entered the atmosphere around 1:19 a.m. EST (0619 GMT), midday off the coast of Sri Lanka where the pieces came down. Although it glowed brightly enough to appear in the daytime sky, earthbound view-ers were out of luck: A cloudy sky blocked most of the show. Luckily, the flying re-searchers were able to measure with a vari-ety of cameras and instruments as the ap-proximately 3-foot (1 meter) object burned up in the atmosphere.

Researchers discussed the newest images on a Slooh Community Observatory webcast this morning, where noted fireball expert Mark Boslough, from Sandia National Labo-ratories in New Mexico, discussed the junk's probable origin based on its unusual, highly elliptical orbit around Earth with Slooh host Paul Cox.

"There aren't that many things we launch

into orbits that would take them beyond the moon, so it's most likely a piece of a lunar mission," Boslough said in a webcast. He added that it could potentially be part of a rocket or fuel tank from the Apollo missions in the 1960s.

Slooh said that the junk fell at 24,600 mph (39,600 km/h), which is why the glow was so bright despite the small size as the object broke up.

"Every kilogram [2.2 lbs.] of material has about the same amount of energy as 10 kilo-grams [22 lbs.] of high explosives when it's moving that fast," Boslough said.

The flying observations came from the Next TC3 Consortium Asteroid Detection and Early Warning Team (referring to 2008 TC3, the first asteroid to hit Earth that was spotted in advance). As the high-quality video, spec-troscopic readings and other measure-ments come back, more about the space junk's source should become clear, research-ers agreed — and the observations will also feed models of debris re-entry and help re-fine tracking methods that could be used on future incoming objects and asteroids.

Email Sarah Lewin at [email protected] or follow her @SarahExplains.

Original article on Space.com.

Video may be seen at

http://www.space.com/31114-space-junks-fiery-re-entry-captured-by-observers-video.html

Editor’s note: This article is a follow-up to an article in the November issue of the Well Rounded Square.


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Club Directory 9 Bee Jay Dancer 9 Enderby River Dancers 10 Gold Classic Dancers 9 Got 2 B Cloggin 10 Kamloops Square Dancers 9 Nelson’s Tuesday Plus 10 Okanagan Cloggin’ 10 Penticton Squares 11 R & R Rounders 11 Rhythm Rounds 11 Salmon Arm Round Dance Club 9 Salmon Arm Squares 9 Star Country Squares 11 Ta’Lana Twirlers 9 Thompson Valley Stars 10 Westsyde Squares 12 Westsyde Youth Team Dance Club 12

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Puzzle: Name that Christmas Tune 23 Puzzle Answers: How Superstitious Are You? 27 Submission Guidelines 6 Table of Contents 3

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