TOLEDO 49'rs SQUARE DANCE CLUB
Toledo, Oregon
Square Dance is the official State dance of Oregon

Our Caller/Cuer Team

Callers - Sandy Harris and guests

Cuers - Sharon Greenman, Goldie Restorff

Dances are the First and Third Saturdays
 Gleneden Beach Community Center
 (click here for map)

Mainstream and Rounds (3rd Tips are Plus)
7:00 pm Pre-Rounds, 7:30 - 10:00 p.m. Dance

Most of us

Of course, visiting us and the coast can make for a grand weekend. Try it! 

Some coastal scenes                    click on a picture to enlarge

Recent Club Events:

Demo Dance. In October 2008, at the request of the Lincolnshire Retirement & Assisted Living Facility in Lincoln City, we provided demo dancing for the residents. They provided us with lunch - sauerbraten, spatzel, red cabbage, and strudel !

Visit (Retrieval) to the Danebo Circle 8. The Danebo birthday dance afforded us a good opportunity to both join in their birthday celebration and to retrieve our Club banner. Joining the many other Clubs present, it was a fun-filled night.

Birthday Dance. We are 59! Our birthday dance was held May 3, 2008 with an outpouring of cake and good wishes. All of our Club Callers and Cuers, Sandy and Andy and Sharon and Goldie, made the dancing special also. Since that was "59", the big "60" can't be far behind. Our detailed planning is well underway to make this a birthday to remember. June 20, 2009 should be a special date on your calendar.

 "Cool" dances. Our May dances attracted many visiting dancers who sought out the Coast cooler temperatures during the record-setting heat in the Valley. Some Tips had more visitors on the floor than Club members.

Bus Trip to Garibaldi. On March 22, 2008 our club was joined by several couples from the Sea Twirlers in a bus trip to Garibaldi to dance with the Coast Swingers. Wade Driver was the caller at their "Country Music Jamboree". Our club Cuer, Goldie Restorff and her husband Earl, joined in the visit. Usually when we visit a club our members make the trip on their own. This is the first group bus trip we have made in a long time, and it was a huge success . . . in the traveling and in the dancing. The sumptuous meal in Tillamook on the way to Garibaldi "rounded out" the trip.

Donations to the Community:

School Donations. At a "beginning of school" dance (September 2008) we collected a variety of school supplies to donate to Lincoln County Schools (photo courtesy of Goldie Restorff)

    Since 2003 we have held several dances each year to collect fuzzy animals that we donate to the children's ward of the Newport Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport.  Child trauma patients get to hug a stuffed animal in the hospital and then take it home with them. The photo below shows one of the collections with club secretary, Daisy Stoutsenberger, left, and club treasurer Dora Weaver.

     At a November dance each year we collect dry/canned food for donation to the local food share programs.

    Each year we also make monetary donations to aid local community groups and Federation-supported organizations. Some donations included:
          - H.O.R.S.E.S, (therapeutic horse riding sponsored by the Square Dance Federation)
          - Toledo High School (student association bench program)
          - Toledo High School (alcohol-free graduation party)
          - Newport High School (alcohol-free graduation party)
          - Depoe Bay KidsZone (after-school care and help)
          - KidSwim (transportation, snacks, and swim lessons for needy Waldort and Yachats youths)
          - O.M.T.A. (music lessons for needy youths sponsored by the Oregon Music Teachers Association)

Recent and Upcoming Events:

Notes:
          Plus dancing to tapes is held in the Newport Adult Activity Center, Mondays, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.,   (541-574-0132).

Club meetings are held in the Newport Adult Activity Center the 2nd Monday of each month, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

An A-1/A-2 workshop and dancing to tapes is held at the Newport Adult Activity Center, Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

   Square Dance History...and more     (click here)

 

This page last updated   December 28, 2008