Sunday Dance Information Email 05-27-04

Hello Dancers,

Yes, we are having a dance this Sunday and the A/C is fixed at the studio. Bless those dancers who suffered without much complaint last Sunday night. It was HOT and HUMID!! It was so warm we went through about 8 gallons of lemonade and had nine fans running. Still, we had dancers still on the floor after 10pm.

Our Upcoming Schedule:

This Sunday May 30th - Last Country Two Step Lesson dance lasts until 11pm due to holiday on Monday. June dances - Cha-Cha lessons all month Friday June 11th - 8:30 to 11:30pm all Country Western Dance July dances - Hustle lessons all month July 4th - We are having a dance and will be open until 11pm

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~~Tip of the Week ~~

Memorial Day (excerpt from memorialday.org)

Over the years the meaning of Memorial Day has faded more and more from the public consciousness. From a solemn day of mourning, remembrance, and honor to our departed loved ones, it has degenerated into a weekend of Bar-B-Q's, shopping bargains and beaches where only token nods toward our honored dead is given, if at all. Too many people don't even know what the day stands for. Memorial Day used to be a solemn, sacred day that was reserved only for remembrance of those who gave their all for this country. Just one day to pause and reflect out of the entire year. Businesses used to close for the day. Towns held parades honoring the fallen, with the parade routes often times ending at a local cemetery where veterans were buried, and where Memorial Day speeches were given. People took the time that day to clean and decorate with flowers and flags the graves of those the fell in service to their country. .............................................

"Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic." -- General Logan - May 5, 1868 ..............................................

It is human nature to avoid the unpleasant. But we need to remember the cost of war, we need to remember the price paid for our freedoms, we need to not let those who died, die forgotten and in vain.

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Freedom is Never Free - Author unknown

I watched the flag pass by one day.

It fluttered in the breeze.

A young Marine saluted it,

And then he stood at ease.

I looked at him in uniform

So young, so tall, so proud,

With hair cut square and eyes alert

He'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him

Had fallen through the years.

How many died on foreign soil?

How many mothers' tears?

How many pilots' planes shot down?

How many died at sea?

How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?

No, freedom isn't free.

I heard the sound of taps one night,

When everything was still

I listened to the bugler play

And felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times

That taps had meant "Amen,"

When a flag had draped a coffin

Of a brother or a friend.

I thought of all the children,

Of the mothers and the wives,

Of fathers, sons and husbands

With interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard

At the bottom of the sea

Of unmarked graves in Arlington.

No, freedom isn't free.

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From our Mailbox this week:

~~ Friday 05-28-2004 - "Dancing by Knight" Cha-Cha from 7:30 to 8:30 followed a dance party from 8:30 to l0:30. $6.00 cover charge for the class including the party. Email Janice at jdasilva4@cox.net for information

~~ Saturday 05-29-2004 - "A Time to Dance" Studio Party 8:30 - 11:00 - Refreshments and Salsa lesson included - $8.00 per person. Call 490-8999 for details

~~ Saturday 05-29-2004 - DanceSport VA Showcase 6:00pm Dinner Hour 7:00pm-11:00pm General Dancing, Student Exhibitions, and Pro Show $25.00pp, in advance only! No tickets sold at the door DanceSportVA_Onnie@cox.net

~~ Sunday 05-30-2004 - "A Time to Dance" 6:30pm to 11pm - Walter & Judy's social dance - lessons (2) included. Mix of Ballroom, Swing, Latin and Country Western. Refreshments served $5.00/ per person Call 483-9410 for information.

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Upcoming Showcases: (See Studio Links below)

"Doug High" Sunday, June 13th, 3-7pm $25.00 in advance, $30.00 at door

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~~~ Links ~~~

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God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you?

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Walter & Judy Schultz

Home - 483-9410

Country-Western, Swing, Latin and Ballroom

Dance every Sunday night unless notified 6:30pm to 10pm

Held at "A Time to Dance"

Executive Cove Center - 5600 Va. Bch Blvd - Va. Bch

1/2 Block East of Newtown Rd.

Look for Executive Cove Center sign

$5.00 per person

Basic Lessons, Three Hours of Smoke Free Dancing

Drink and munchies provided

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