The Valentine's Dance was a great success. We had almost 300 people in attendance and it sure seemed that everyone had a good time.
Jealous Heart played and they did a great job of mixing up the music and playing so that everyone could enjoy the dance.
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Don De Keyrel was stationed in the Library taking pictures of anyone who wanted a 5 x 7 Valentine Picture of themselves. He was assisted by his wife, Dolora, and Donna Ritchie. The proceeds from the pictures is going to fund the Winter Ranch participation in the Alamo Parade.
While they were in the library snapping pictures, I was out on the floor grabbing pictures of our Winter Ranchers having fun on Valentines Day. You can tell we seniors are still young at heart!
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| Martha and John Anderson taking time out from ticket sales - of course, they may have been coerced somewhat!! |
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| John and Jeanne Becanic - Ticket Sales |
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| Gerry and Patty Johnson, Ticket Sales |
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| Marie Siglin and Marvel Gardner volunteering in the kitchen |
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| The line for concession forms here! |
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| Donna Jenkins and Miriam Hight |
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| Lee Benfield and Al Hight enjoying a moment |
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| Dale and Sandy Handley |
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| Char Leach and Linda Mc Kelvey |
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| Mary Stanek, Karla Arrasmith and Nora Minor |
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| Richard and Marsha Bender Selling 50/50 Tickets |
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| Arah Carlson and Elaine Stanek |
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| Pat and Chuck Cullett - those red glasses blink on and off. Chuck is like a flashing beacon in the dark out there on the dance floor! | |
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| Pat and Chuck Celebrating Valentine's Day |
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| Carolyn and Jerry Nieland |
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| Merlin and Cheryl Graaf |
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Merlin and Cheryl
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| Bill and Kathy Putsky |
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| Linda and Steve Mc Kelvey |
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| Linda and Steve Mc Kelvey |
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| Jack and Char Leach |
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| Ralph and Shirley Ress |
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| Ralph and Shirley Snuggling | |
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| Kathy and Scott Maynard |
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| Janette and Leon Hodge |
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| Dancing |
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| More Dancing |
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| Joann and Patrick Sullivan |
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| Betsy Oestreicher and Merv Printy |
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| Mary and Ken Stanek |
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| Gail and Bill McCrabb |
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| Line Dancing |
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| JD and Lynn Getting Cozy |
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| More Line Dancing |
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| Dancing to the Cuban Shuffle |
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| Marsha and Richard Bender selling 50/50 Tickets |
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| Betsy and Merv were out selling 50/50 tickets too |
I don't know how they remembered what they were doing. The prices tonight were for a special event so they went like this:
$1 for one ticket
$7 for a wrap around a couple at their largest point
$8 for your height in tickets
$10 for a table length of tickets
With the $10 price, if he had a picture of her in his wallet then you got an extra five tickets!
We ended up with two winners who received $123 each.
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| Connie and Eldon Merfeld |
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| Nice Crowd - kind of a sea of red! |
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| Mary and Lee Benfield, Dance Leads for the night, and Janet and Gerald Handlos drawing for the many door prizes for the evening |
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| The Benfields and the The Handlos |
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| More of the crowd |
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| Lots of people brought snacks - it was party time! The Concession was open too! |
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| We had the couples stand who were married for years or more and handed out some treat boxes to them. Tom and Ruth Minson are standing up in this picture. |
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The couples that were married the longest that were at the dance were married 62, 61 and 59 years. Here we are handing them some mementos of this Valentine's Dance. |
We had them introduce themselves after they received their mementos of this dance.
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| Leading off the Dance |
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| Leading Off The Dance - this couple used to live at Winter Ranch years and years ago. Apparently, they still visit from time to time! |
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Tom and Ruth Minson leading off the dance.
They have been married 59 years. |
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| Myra and Jim Luetje
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| Leon and Lois Green |
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| Linda and Larry Lasher |
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| Deb and Neil Kanne |
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| Judy and Bob Babler |
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| Donna and Rich Ritchie |
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| Richard Beall and Donna Jenkins |
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| Miriam and Al Hight |
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| Dale and Sandy Handley |
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| Patrick and Jane Snook |
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| Glenda and Ray Uselman |
Thanks to all our volunteers who helped at the dance:
Photo Booth: Donald and Dolora De Keyrel
Photo Booth: Donna Ritchie
Dance Leads: Lee and Mary Benfield
Ticket Sales: John and Martha Anderson
Ticket Sales: Gerry and Patty Johnson
Ticket Sales: John and Jeanne Becanic
50/50: Marv Printy and Betsy Oestricher
50/50: Richard and Marsha Bender
Runners: Gerald and Janet Handlos
Kitchen: Bill and Marie Siglin
Kitchen: Marvel Gardner
