Batavia Silver Stars

MARCH—GREEN, GREEN, GREEN—Breeze into our St. Patrick’s Day Dance Monday, March 12, wearing your GREEN attire for an evening of fun and dancing. For this special dance we will be collecting non-perishable food items for the Corfu Area Food Pantry.

APRIL—Ah! Spring is in the air. We will celebrate Dyngus Day Monday April 2 with Eileen Webster as our guest cuer. Donations of non-perishable food items will go to the Corfu Area Food Pantry. Congratulations to our newest members who will graduate April 30.

MAY—May 14 we will celebrate our T-Shirt Night. Come prepared to show off your silliest, prettiest or just a plain T-Shirt that you love and makes you happy. Monetary donations this evening will be for Crossroads Hospice House.

We welcome everyone to come dance with us every Monday night 7:00–9:30 except Memorial Day, May 28. Join us for an evening of fun, food and, of course, great dancing.

Information: Bill Ryan, Caller & Cuer (716-517-6012)

Reported by: Jan Bencic (585-762-8591), Carol Brown (585-247-5689)

Belles 'N' Beaus

We had to cancel our March 12 and March 19 dances due to flooding at the church. On March 26 we plan to have fun with a BEACH PARTY theme—Gil Porter calling. Wear your Hawaiian attire and join us for a delicious DESSERT AUCTION. Come to have fun and bid to win to take some delicious treats home. Our ICE CREAM SOCIAL on April 30 is always a big hit enjoying free ice cream with all sorts of fun toppings. On Friday May 11 we have a special dance—our SPRING FLING—with Ron Brown calling. We will feature appetizers and desserts that evening. So please come and join us. We are adding dances on May 7, 14, and 21 with Gary Bubel calling to make up for our canceled dances.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming dances.

Information: Bob & Alice Hager (585-227-1894)

Reported by: Ronni & Tom Camiolo

Boo Bull DBD

This club dances on some Friday nights. Although we do not dance every week, we have great fun when we get together! No new movements are taught, we just look at movements you already know from different positions than you are used to; challenging but interesting and fun. Our first DBD dance is May 11. After that, please check the Promenader for our schedule.

Information: Alice & Gary Bubel (585-538-9887)

Reported by: Alice & Gary Bubel

Boo Bull Rounds

Our Tuesday afternoon dancing will begin May 8. We dance 3:30–5:00, and dance Phases 3 & 4. Please join us some Tuesday afternoon. Casual dress.

Our Wednesday club will begin dancing May 9. For the month of May we will just dance, reviewing any steps people need. We dance 7:00–9:00.

We plan to start a new class in June. More details to come. Please join us for a fun evening of dancing.

Information: Alice & Gary Bubel (585-538-9887)

Reported by: Gary and Alice Bubel

Boo Bull Squares

Hello everyone from sunny Florida. We have been enjoying the weather and the square and round dancing. Our club will resume dancing on May 8. We look forward to seeing everyone in the spring. Remember our club dances May–December. Get ready for a great season of dancing with the Boo Bull Squares.!

Information: Gary & Alice Bubel (585-538-9887)

Reported by: Gary and Alice Bubel

Cayuga Cut-Ups

Welcome Spring! The Cayuga Cut-Ups welcome our snowbirds home March, April & May! March has club dances on the 8th and the 22nd; April each Thursday —5th, 12th, 19th & 26th; with May highlighting Class Graduation and Cinco de Mayo on the 3rd—It will be Make Your Own Taco Night! May 31 is our Memorial Day Dance; please wear Red, White & Blue.

The Cut-Ups are busy planning our 57th Anniversary Dance, please plan for upcoming information to help us celebrate!

Keep Dancing.

Information: Linda English (315-689-1679)

Reported by: Linda English

Champagne Whirl-A-Ways

LEG CRAMPS—All kinds of info is available on line! Includes foot pain and hand pain.

Diane and I just bought our Dance-O-Rama ribbons. Remember to check in at the door regardless. See you there.

March dances are Saturday afternoon events. The Luck of the Irish and Soup and Sandwich night, which is a full meal! April switches to evening schedule and brings Hawaiian Night and Spring (already) Fling. May enjoys Cookies Galore and Wear Your Best Red, White and Blue. Jim Gotta, Gil Porter, Richard Rosenfield, Lisa Treichler, and the Bubels, all join with us during farewell to winter and welcome sweet springtime.

Information: Diane Camp (607-776-4528), Jeanne Kashorek (607-583-2523); cwasdfacebook@gmail.com

Reported by: Cathy Mack, Diane Camp and Art Diefenbach

Cloverleaf Squares

Cloverleaf Squares has many fun dances coming up throughout the spring and summer months. Come out and dance with us for Cloverleaf’s 48th Anniversary Dance, which will be March 18. Rounds begin at 7:00 p.m. Squares and rounds will be from 7:30–9:45 pm. A donation of a canned good would be appreciated to benefit a local food cupboard. Cloverleaf Squares is hosting an Amateur Night on April 22. Anyone interested in participating in calling during Amateur Night please contact Henry Capron.

In May we begin our summer schedule. Starting May 6 we begin dancing at the Henrietta Fire Hall. May 20 we will be having a Hawaiian Night themed dance. During June, Cloverleaf Squares will be having a Red, White and Blue dance on June 10 for flag day. We will have three special dances in July. July Fest with Ron Reardon calling will be July 14 at the Henrietta Fire hall from 7:00–10:00 p.m. Boots/Shorts Night will be July 15 and Crazy T-shirt day will be July 29.

All are welcome to the Square Dancing Friends picnic and bonfire on Saturday August 4 at Jane Avery’s house. Picnic begins at 1:00 p.m. Bring a dish to pass, lawn chair and any games you would like to share. The pool will be open so bring your bathing suit/towel if you would like to swim.

Save the date for two events in August: August Festival is August 24 from 7:00–10:00 p.m. with Mike Sikorsky; and the Ice Cream Social is August 26. Both dances are at the Henrietta Fire Hall. Hope to see you at a dance!

Information: Henry Capron (585-747-0180)

Reported by: Rebecca (Becky) Sabin

Copy Cats

Hello from the Copy Cats. Another three months has come and gone. Winter is upon us and we are looking toward March, April and May of 2018. We have enjoyed our time together at our dances, but also outside of them too. We Cats are busy. Some of our felines got together at Karen Olmsted’s home for a craft night. We girls were having so much fun that the boys had to check to see if we were ever going to be ready to go home. Our Holiday Dance was well attended—we had 72 members and guests attend our catered dinner. Seven Copy Kittens and one Cloverleaf Squares class member attended the festivities. We had a total of 10 squares on the dance floor! It was great to see so many of our Copy Cats members attend! Our Snowflake Ball was held on January 20, 2018 and it went great. The Class came early to hang a lot of snowflakes and the hall looked very nice! The Kittens provided snacks which were plentiful as always. Gary and Lorraine Granath did a wonderful job guiding the Class with hospitality. Ron Brown was our caller that evening. He invited Greg Marling to come to the dance. Greg and Ron did a couple of Hip Boot Boys numbers together about halfway through the night. We had seven squares on the floor all night until 9:45. Eileen Webster’s cueing was wonderful as always. Thank you, Eileen! Ron Brown won the second place 50/50 prize of $16 and donated it back to the Club. We were very appreciative of him for doing so. We have the following dances scheduled in 2018 to have more fun. On March 3 we will have one of our non-theme dances. On Saturday, March 17, we will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day beginning with a Potluck supper to enjoy together followed by dancing with music provided by Ron Brown. Our April Fool’s Day Dance will be held on April 7 and on April 21 is our “Save The Last Dance For Me” dance. Yes, this is the last dance scheduled until after the summer. But, you know us Cats, you never know what kind of mischief we will get into. Our dances are held at the First Baptist Church of Penfield (1862 Penfield Rd. Penfield, NY) and our instruction classes are held at Bay Trail Middle School (1760 Scriber Rd., Penfield NY). For upcoming dances, please check out our flyers in the Promenader or on our website (www.copycatsdancing.org). Hope to see you at our dances.

Information: Donna or Rick LaDonna (585-633-2044)

Reported by: Brenda Beechner

Dalton Gang

Hello fellow square dancers. Welcome to the brand new year of 2018. We are kicking off our new year with our pancake dinner dance coming March 27, so please remind all the other clubs of our special event. For more information, check out our flier in the Promenader. Our new caller Ray Tompkins is doing a superb job calling for us while Clayton Wing is in Florida. Our square dancing Christmas party was a great success and we even sang some Christmas songs. As always, we are still looking for new dance members so please come join the club and have a good time with us. We want to get this club growing.

Information: Jamond Billyard (585-330-1128)

Reported by: Jamond Billyard and Donna Whitmer

Grand Squares

Hopefully winter is, for the most part, done and we can look forward to longer and warmer days. Like many of you, surviving the cold and snow has been a challenge. Illness has plagued several of our regular members and since our membership is small to begin with, we are sincerely indebted to our faithful visitors to fill our squares. Everyone seemed to enjoy bidding farewell to the Christmas season with our CHRISTMAS IN JANUARY dance, so we will probably make that an annual happening.

As Mike continues with his travels, we are happy to have Jim Gotta calling and cuing for us on Thursday evenings. We will dance on March 1 and 8 with Jim and welcome Mike back for April 12 and 26. Our last dance of the season will be on May 3 when we will admit new graduates free. We dance at Roth Junior High on East Henrietta Road, just South of the Thruway overpass. Hope you can join us for a fun evening of dancing in the near future.

Information: Carol Ann Stahl (585-533-9241); stahlsinrush@rochester.rr.com

Reported by: Carol Ann Stahl

Mark’s Intermediate Workshop

This workshop is designed for dancers who are comfortable with Phase II figures and would like to learn Phase III in several different rhythms. It is also an excellent review and reinforcement for dancers who are currently dancing Phase III. We will work on rumba, foxtrot, waltz, cha, jive, and tango figures, all of which will build on the Phase II figures you already know

We meet at the First United Methodist Church of West Webster, 570 Ridge Road, West Webster on Monday evenings from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Dress is casual and comfortable.

Please note: We will begin dancing after our winter break on Monday March 26, 2018.

Please note: We will "begin at the beginning" of Phase III figures. This will not be a carry-over from 2017, so dancers who would like to learn or have never done Phase III figures will be able to participate.

Information: Mark & Marlene Thone (585-226-8984 home); (585-748-5131 cell)

Reported by: Mark & Marlene Thone

Penn Yan Friendship Squares

Our annual Watkins Glen Weekend will be held Sept 21–23, 2018 at Clute Memorial Park Community Center. If you join us you will enjoy a wonderful wooden dance floor, an air-conditioned dance hall and food events. Come for the entire weekend, an evening dance or an all day/night Saturday package is available. We are excited to have national caller Tom Miller calling. Mark and Marlene Thone will be cueing. For more information or to register, contact Sue Irvine at 585-330-9129 or email irvinesuej@gmail.com.

Our club dances on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays at Penn Yan’s Grange Hall. See our schedule on this website and come down to Penn Yan. We’d love to see you!

Information: Lise Rosenfield (607-257-1638)

Reported by: Gary & Sue Groom (585-489-6186)

Round Towners

Round Towners is an easy intermediate Round Dance Club, dancing a Phase III and IV level program. A teach or a review, at the Phase III+ or Phase IV level, is included most evenings. We work on Phase III+ and Phase IV figures in all rhythms and welcome anyone to join us who is interested in dancing at this level.

We meet on Thursday evenings from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church of West Webster, which is located at 570 Ridge Road in West Webster.

Please note: We will resume dancing on Thursday, March 29, 2018. We wish you all a wonderful winter, a joyous holiday season and a healthy new year. And we are looking forward to seeing you in the spring.

Information: Information: Mark & Marlene Thone (585-226-8984 home); (585-748-5131 cell)

Reported by: Mark & Marlene Thone

Shamrock Squares

Shamrock Squares dances the Callerlab Advanced A-2 program on Tuesday evenings 6:45 to 8:30 at the Pieters Family Life Center, 1025 Commons Way, Rochester. We welcome all A-2 dancers to join us. For more information, please call.

Information: Caller Mike & Wanda Callahan (585-352-7877)

Reported by: Dick & Irma Halstead

Shirts 'N' Skirts

Well Hello Spring! We missed you. Fulton has had enough of the snow and freezing temperatures. We had to cancel dancing a few nights because the weather was just too bad to be driving. March starts out with our Quarterly Meeting. It doesn’t take long for us to get the club business done. Our party for the month is St. Patrick’s Day on March 16. Wear green and bring green snacks...no, not the container of green food in the back of the fridge. That night we will be dancing Class/Club alternating tips. On March 30 we will NOT be dancing because of Good Friday. April brings us two nights to note: on Friday the 13th we will have Black Cat Night. Members bring in donations for a local animal shelter. On the 20th is Pizza Night. We usually dance a few tips before the pizza arrives, but once it does... all dancing stops for a while. The club will provide the pizza and beverages. The first big highlight of May is the Dance-O-Rama on Saturday, May 5 in Fairport. Join the fun for lots of dancing, raffles and laughs with other club members. On May 18 is our club Cookout. Well, we can’t really call it a cookout anymore, since the meat arrives already cooked from the grill at home. The club provides hot dogs, brats and sausages. The generous club members bring yummy dishes to pass. We eat early, and then dance. On May 25, we will be dancing as normal even though it’s Memorial Day weekend. JUNE 2 is the Annual ALS Benefit Dance in Fulton. Please mark your calendars and attend this event. We have food, raffles and many callers and cuers. See the flyer here in the Promenader. That’s it from Fulton. We hope you come to visit us soon.

Caller: Dave Eno

Information: Patti Griffin (315) 342-4068; Schumacher (315-635-0930)

Reported by: Paula Schumacher

Silver Squares

Silver Square News—March, April, May, June—2018

March: 2018:

March 12—will be our soup and salad luncheon at 12:00. Bring a dish to pass and if not the cost is $3.00. We have some very good cooks in our group. Come and join us for this occasion.

April: 2018:

April 9—we will be celebrating with a Kite dance and Silent Auction. (Our official welcome to spring.) There are always great items for gifts, delicious baked goods and some surprises. Come and join us.

May: 2018:

May 7—Our special dance with be the Lilac dance. Oh the fragrance of these flowers is awesome. Summer is here … come and join us.

May 28—There will be NO DANCE as we celebrate Memorial Day.

June: 2018:

June 25 will be our picnic dance. But stay tuned, we dance all during the summer months. Check back for the dates and specials….

Information: Jean St. John (585-720-0777)

Reported by: Winifred Best (585-441-9063)

Southern Tier Wheelers

Ahhhh Spring; when a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love. But, for the members of the Southern Tier Wheelers, our thoughts turn to camping and dancing. With the weather warming up, we begin to ready our campers for the season ahead.

As always, we invite you to join us for an evening, a day or a weekend. Dances on Friday or Saturday nights are $5.00 a person or, if you would like to take advantage of the round and square workshops during the day on Saturday, the cost is $10.00 a person. We kick off the 2018 camping season by "joining forces" with the Penn Yan Friendship Squares and dancing to the calling and cueing of Gary and Alice Bubel. Our May weekend, May 18–20, will be hosted by Erich and Rosalie Klippel and features a dinner special on Saturday evening. A meal of either steak or chicken may be ordered through the campground at a reasonable cost and Chef Ed always provides a delicious dinner. Information on camping or making a reservation for dinner can be made by calling Erich at 585-615-6745. Reservation for the meal must be made by May 11.

Our June weekend (June 22–24) features Howard and Donna Williamson. Saturday evening, prior to the dancing, we invite you to join us for a pot luck dinner. For further information or to make a reservation, please contact Gary or Sue Irvine at the following numbers: Gary can be reached at 585-746-2319 and Sue can be reached at 585-330-9129.

If you like to plan ahead, the August weekend will be held August 10–12. September’s dates are September 7–9 and our October (Halloween bash) will be Oct. 5–8. We look forward to having you join us.

Remember that after the dances there is always room for you around the campfire.

Yellow Rocks to one and all!!!

Information: Bill and Pat Mosher (607-739-3299)

Reported by: Bill & Pat Mosher

Village Squares

Village Squares is offering 14 Wednesday and two Friday dances during the spring season at the United Church of Pittsford, 123 South Main Street. In addition, on Saturday April 14 we are joining Cloverleaf Squares and Copy Cats as sponsors of the annual Tri-Club Dance at Archangel (previously Washington Irving) school at 2400 Chili Avenue, Rochester. The Tri-Club Dance features Plus calls and Rounds from 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Early rounds are cued starting at 7:00 p.m. Dave Eno is calling. Mark Thone is cueing. Refer to the flyer for details.

Our first dance of the spring season is Wednesday March 7. A Plus Workshop extends from 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. After 8:00 p.m., we blend into full Plus level dancing interspersed with rounds. Gil Porter is calling and Jerry Carmen (pre-recorded) is cueing. Variations in subsequent dances are noted below.

Our second dance on Wednesday March 14 is Pie/Pi Night. The date 3.14 approximates the mathematical pi and the refreshments include true pie. Greg Marling is calling. There is no Plus Workshop. Refer to the flyer for more details.

Our dance on Wednesday March 21 differs from the March 7 dance in that Ron Brown replaces Gil Porter.

Our Friday March 23 Spring Has Sprung Dance is a change of pace. No teaching. This is a night aimed at simply enjoying Plus level square dancing and round dancing. Gil Porter is calling and Jerry Carmen (pre-recorded) cueing. Refer to our flyer for this dance.

Our Wednesday March 28, April 4 and 25 and May 2, 9, 16 and 23 dances match our March 7 dance described above.

Our Wednesday April 18 dance almost matches our March 7 dance format, but for a special enhancement of being our annual Hobo (a.k.a. Wear Whatever You Have Left After Taxes) Dance. Refer to our Hobo Dance flyer.

Our Friday April 27 TGIF dance picks up where our Friday March 23 dance left off. Greg Marling is calling. Refer to our flyer for this dance.

Wednesday May 30 is our annual Red, White and Blue Dance. The dance is free to dancers graduating from Mainstream classes in 2018. Dancing will be at the Mainstream level from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. From 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. dancing will be at the Plus level. Gil Porter is calling. Refer to our flyer for this dance.

Stepping over the imaginary line separating Spring from Summer, our annual Ice Cream Social Dance (formerly known as Trail’s End Dance) for the 2017–2018 dance year is scheduled for Wednesday June 6. The dance is from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Gil Porter will be calling. No lessons, just pleasant dancing.

Information: Peter & Sally Emmel (585-381-5049)

Reported by: Carl & Susan Thomas (585-385-2155)

Waterwheel Squares

April brings rain showers, flowers, and Waterwheel Squares Anniversary celebration on the 3rd and ice cream social on the 17th. May events include a regular dance on the 1st, our Hawaiian dance on the 15th, and then the regular dance on the 22nd, but no dance on the 29th (Memorial weekend).

We do not dance on the second Tuesday of each month; otherwise it is every Tuesday at 7 pm at Amherst Community Church.

Information: Kim Mansfield (716-228-2465); bigwigkim@aol.com

Reported by: Kim Mansfield