September 12, 2007                                                                      Howie Hilton, Editor

 

ANOTHER SEASON!!!!!

 

Welcome Back!  We hope that you had an enjoyable and pleasant summer as we “kick-off” another season of square dancing.  We will all miss Jim and Lois Odum after 25 plus years as our cuers.  Hopefully they will drop by for a visit and coffee.

 

Tom Allen will be our opening caller and with daughter Sarah as our cuer.

 

LESSONS

 

Try, Try again.  Reports indicate that we may have up to eleven people that are interested in lessons this fall, thanks in part to members Glenn & Apryl Hultstrand.  We will have lessons on Thursdays starting on September 20th @ 7PM at Richfield Intermediate School, 70th & 12th Avenue South.  The first lesson is free.  Angels will be needed so please help out your club.

 

DUES

 

Club and Federation dues should be paid at your earliest convenience so that we may finalize a club roster.  Club dues are $5.00 per person with a free voucher to use anytime this dance season.  Federation dues, payable at any Minnesota club, must be paid by October 12th for insurance purposes.

 

ST. HELENA’S FESTIVAL – SEPTEMBER 14-16

 

We will participate again by dancing in St. Helena’s Festival (3200 East 44th Street) on Saturday September 15th @ 9:30AM.

 

Sign up sheet on the back tables.

 

PAPERS

 

We will be doing papers on an average of every two weeks on Tuesdays due to the change in lessons at Oak Grove Lutheran Church.

 

PLEASE VOLUNTEER TO SERVE ON OUR BOARD!!

 

SUMMER NEWS!!

 

Allen Gosewisch former club member died July 16th in Nixa, MO.  Barbara has since moved to St Peter to be near her son.  New address:  2054 Pratt Circle, St. Peter, MN 56082.  Our condolences to Barb and their families.

 

Twenty four club members and guests had a delicious breakfast bunch at the Best Western in Mankato on Saturday, June 9th while attending the Minnesota State Square Dance Convention June 8 – 10.

 

On Tuesday August 14th we had 29 club members and guests at our Annual Club Pot Luck Picnic at Minnehaha Park Pavillion.  Afterwards Chuck Spragg conducted a short meeting on the club actives for the coming season including a sign up sheet for kitchen duties.

 

On Saturday August 18th, over 20 members and friends were at John & Elaine Gorshe’s Lake Cabin in Balsam Lake for a potluck picnic on a rainy day.  John and Elaine provided the hamburgers, hot dogs, drinks and great hostility to at least add sunshine to our visit.  It was nice to see former club member Mary Dingman again.

 

BIRTHDAYS!

 

Louis Geislinger            Sep 19;   John Gorshe            Sep 21;   Mike Murrell            Oct 4

 

ANNIVERSARIES!

 

Chuck & Sylvia Spragg            Sep 29;      Carl & Faith Lindell              Oct 4

 

KITCHEN HELP!

 

September 14                    Rodney & Shirley Rae

 

October 12                           Orph Biel;    Howie & Ginny Hilton

 

November 9                         Jerry & Sue Wohnoutka

 

DANCES!

 

October 12                           Larry Johansen                    Halloween Treats

 

November 9                         Dan Sahlstrom                  Sandwiches

 

November 30                    Roger McNeil                       Pot Luck

 

WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS

 

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”

Winston Churchill

 

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”  Clarence Darrow

 

“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening.  But this wasn’t it.”

Groucho Marx

 

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

Mark Twain

 

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

Oscar Wilde

 

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend…If you have one.”

George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill…..followed by

 

“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one.”

Winston Churchill

 

“I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”

Stephen Bishop

 

“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”

John Bright

 

“He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.”

Samuel Johnson

 

“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”

Paul Keating

 

“He had delusions of adequacy.”

Walter Kerr

 

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”

Mark Twain

 

“His Mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”  Mae West