Hi, all.  

Single Trees had their new dancer dance in January but did not dance the next weekend because we were visited by a huge ice storm which kept people at home for over five days, left many without power for over a week, caused terrible damage to our fine trees especially to the east of Eugene in Springfield.

 

This past weekend Jan. 26- 28 we did not dance in this area as our Mid-Winter Festival was taking place up in Albany at the fairgrounds.  A few Single Trees were in attendance including those who also belong to Whirl-A-Ways, Larry Reetz and Connie Seamans who were there in official capacities helping the Mid-Winter committee .  Those who were there the whole weekend or at least for all day Saturday were: Joy Pitts, President, Melba Walker, Vice President, Paul Hash, Diana Hodges, Gaynor Hintz, Chris Vanderlinde.  There may have been more but I did not see them.

 

I danced the whole time in the Advanced Hall which had from 4 to 6 squares dancing to the featured callers, Jet Roberts amd Scott B3ennett, our own Randy Dibble and Scott Zinser from Oregon, and Ray Brendzy from Canada.  With such a line-up it wasn't any wonder we had six squares at times.  Overall, I just heard there were 802 registered for the festival.  This number is up from last year so it bodes well for the future.  I saw many younger people on the floor which also bodes well.

 

I had a terrific time and hope to go again next year.

Here are a few photos I took while resting on the sidelines in the Advanced Hall.

It was sad not to see Ian Craig calling for us this year.  He passed away suddenly earlier in January.  We were lucky to get Ray Brendzy to fill in his slots on the schedule.  But Ian will be greatly missed because he was the caller for the Silverton teen club along with Leonard Snodgrass who also passed away suddenly a while ago.

Gaynor Hintz

Club Reporter