Club 40th Birthday Weekend - Saturday Evening Photos

- April 03, 2023

The main event dance for Cane Country Squares 40th Birthday was the Saturday evening, March 11th at Coronation Hall.

SSD and Mainstream was again called by our three great feature callers, Steve Turner, Nev McLachlan and our own club caller, Matthew Mills.

The whole weekend it was great to see people dressing up, with a few of our ladies rarely seen in skirts at any other time. Lots of couples came in lovely matching outfits all weekend. Saturday night saw some extra fancy outfits and very full petticoats.

The callers again took turns calling and had opportunities to dance with the rest of us. This session was the largest turn out for the weekend.

During the night we also had Bev McLachlan cue Round Dancing. A lot of us really enjoy watching this even if we can't Round Dance ourselves.

A small stall of square dance clothing was set up in the corner of the hall, with a few other second hand items changing hands during the night.

In the opposite corner by the front door, the slide show was still popular all night, with small groups gathering at times to point out people they recognised.

The raffle table was also set up by the entry door. Around 25 tickets were drawn out until all the prizes had been collected, with each winner progressively choosing something from the table.

Alan Haslemore donated a large veggie tray. Thanks also go to a number of other members that made personal donations to the raffle.

As a thank you to the businesses that donated to our raffles they are listed at the bottom of the page with Google Map locations and websites, if they have them. Please support these businesses if you can.

The club's birthday cake was cut by our guest callers and cuer, Steve Turner, Nev and Bev McLauchlan and Shirley Kelly. Shirley, who is still very active in the club, was our club caller and director for 32 years, before handing the position to Matthew Mills.

After the cake was cut, June, the President of the Queensland Square Dance Society, presented Matt with a certificate of appreciation to mark the club's 40th birthday.

During the evening we had two poems read by Sandy. The first one included a few helpers to perform a skit of the poem. These were some of our newest dancers, Alan, Shirley and Gay. Matt assisted Sandy with the second poem.

Supper was a huge spread of sandwiches, cakes and slices again with tea and coffee available all night. Thanks to all those who bought in those home made treats for us.

Small thankyou gifts were presented to Penny and Helen for working in the kitchen all weekend, along with Jo Lester for her part in organising the catering.

Thank you gifts also went to Rob and Jo Read for working on the digital photo presentation, George for his help at the door and Alan Haslemore for the mass of plants provided for the hall.

The whole committee, consisting of Jo L, Jo K, Jo R, Pam, Anita and Fran were thanked for their involvement with special mention of Fran's work on creating the new stage back drop banner.