Cane Country Squares 41st Birthday 2024

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On Friday, the 8th of March we dressed in our club colours of green and gold for Cane Country Squares 41st Birthday. 

Dancing started at 6:30pm at our regular dance hall at 89 Targo St. While lower key than our big 40th event last year, it was a fun night for our local group. 

Our current learners group attended making two squares of SSD level on the floor all night. 

The hall looked great decorated with green and yellow balloons, our club banner, new printed table cloths and hand made banner.


We had more than eight Plus level dancers but not quite enough for two squares. A few of us swapped in-between bracket to take turns during the night.

The cake this year was a collection of iced cup cakes with letters arranged to read Happy 41st Birthday. Cutting the cake was Sandy, her son Scott, visiting from Brisbane, and Sammy, one of our new leaners.

Supper included a number of sweet and savoury treats brough in by members to share. At the end of our supper break, our lucky door, raffle and lucky spot prices were drawn. Sandy also read a humours poem while Matt attempted to act out elements of it with Sandy's instructions.

Enough dancers stayed till the end of the night at 9:30 to still have two squares on the floor. 

We look forward to our learners group moving to our regular Friday night dancing at the end of this month with the new learner Come and Try nights starting on Tuesday the 2nd of April.


More photos will be uploaded to our 2024 photo gallery in the next day or two. 
Some videos of the night will also be included on our 2024 Video Library and on YouTube

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