It was dance party ticket-selling night this past Wednesday September 29th, during FOREVER YOUNG NIGHT as part of Lucky Star Restaurant's weekly 'Filipino Night'. Bert Andrade won in the price competition, promoting a FREE "Dance For Your Health" at Loma Verde Center October 16th (see below for details on this and other upcoming dances).
There were about 35 happy FOREVER YOUNGSTERS and about 15 other party-goers in the ballroom. DJ Eric, the One-Man Band, played 10 line dances and about 30 other ballroom dances between 7pm-9:30pm. There was usually plenty of room on the dance floor with only 4 dances getting over 20 dancers on the floor, by my count. Surprisingly, "Rose Garden" got 26 dancers up, half line dancers and half swing dancers. "Tennessee Waltz" did just about the same, with several disco hustle dancers sharing the floor with line dancers. "Coco Jamboo" and "Asi Asi" also got over 20 dancers, with a mix of line dancers and ballroom dancers.
You can enjoy yourself and join the fun, frolic and laughter: Once again, this coming week FOREVER YOUNG NIGHT will again be WEDNESDAY NIGHT (October 6th) in the LUCKY STAR RESTAURANT from 6 to 9:30pm.
LINE DANCE TUESDAYS (free!) - About 15 line dancers showed up on Tuesday September 28th for line dancing led by the ever-energetic Nina at Point Point Joint. The event of the night was a visit by Carly for Senate campaigners who took pictures of the line dancers rallying for Carly (see photo). "Volare", "Rose Garden", "September" and "Tennessee Waltz" were all practiced for the planned exhibition at the October 2nd "Shunt For life" dance.
You can join the fun this coming Tuesday (October 5th) at Point Point Joint, 916 E. 8th Street, National City, 6:30-9:00, when Nina will again lead us through fun line dances.
PHOTOS:
Well, here we go again with two photos that are attached "virtually". First of all, we have line dancing to "Volare" on a warm Tuesday Sept 28th evening - notice fans in some hands.
Then, from FOREVER YOUNG NIGHT at Lucky Star on Sept 29th, it's Ernie and Irma Tactay who we welcomed after not seeing them at a FOREVER YOUNG NIGHT since early in the year.
I added those plus 11 other photos from the past week in the Forever Young Group Photos section into the '2010 September' folder. For those of you who prefer the features of Google's Picasa Web Albums, and you who are non-Yahoo members, the September photos are also posted at
http://picasaweb.google.com/bertdonaldson/2010September#
You can download photos from both locations. Using another Picasa feature, you can order prints on-line out of a Picasa album from several print providers including Walgreens without the need to download & upload photo files to & from your computer. To see the photo file names in Picasa Web, left click on the 1st photo, then left click on 'more info' under 'Photo Information' .
FYI, this Yahoo Email Group's Home Page is at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foreveryoungsd
UPCOMING DANCES:
Tuesday October 5th, 6:30-9pm, FREE line dancing at Point Point, 916 E. 8th St., Nat'l City
Wednesday October 6th, 6:00-9:30pm, FOREVER YOUNG NIGHT (as part of Filipino Night) at Lucky Star, 3893 54th St., San Diego. $6 cover charge and 1 drink minimum.
Friday, October 8, 2010, 6pm to 11 pm,
San Diego Forever Lions Club Officer Installation Dinner Dance
At Holiday Inn, National City
Tickets from Ernie Tactay, 619-995-6821
Music by: DJ Flavor Kontrol
Saturday, October 9, 2010, 5-Midnight,
"Wild West" Dinner & Dance
St. Charles Holy Name Society
Times: 5:00-6:00 No Host Social Hour
6:00-8:00 Dinner
8:00-Midnight Dancing
Where: St. Charles Parish Center, 990 Saturn Blvd., SD 92154
Cost: $20 person
DJ: Mar Devalin
Must be 21 years or older
Saturday, October 16, 2010, 6-9pm
Dance For Your Health. Light refreshments will be provided.
At Loma Verde Rec Center, 1420 Loma Lane, Chula Vista
FREE. DJ Jerson Andrade
RSVP required - call AARP Reservation Line 1-877-926-8300
Saturday, November 6, 2010, 6-11PM
"Jam Session" Dinner-Dance by Fil-Am Community of St. Rita's.
At St. Rita's School Auditorium, 5125 Churchward St., San Diego.
$20. DJ Mar Delavin.
For tickets: Bert Alota, 619-303-7633
OTHER DANCING EVENTS:
(I do not regularly go to these, so I wouldn't know if the event is cancelled on any particular day.)
The "Shunt For Life" dinner-dance, Saturday October 2nd, at Loma Verde Center, turned out to be a pretty big event with about 400 in attendance, after hundreds of hours of preparations (including about 25 dancer-hours at our Tuesday line dances). Anyway, I think there were dancers there from every Fil-Am dance group in San Diego, and about 5 of the groups put on dance exhibitions. Including this new one that I'd never heard of:
Red Hot Line Dancers. They dance for FREE every Friday in the senior center at 8460 Mira Mesa Blvd., from 7-9pm. Contact is Rose Mata at 858-204-7454.
Sundays, Filipino-American Senior-Junior Golden Years Association, dancing and food, at K-P Hall, 200 E. Plaza Blvd., National City. $7. Dancing more-or-less from noon till 3pm, featuring Harana Band and recorded dance music during breaks.
Wednesday karaoke and some dancing 9pm-1am at Jasmine Restaurant on Convoy Street, hosted by Kristina, the Filipina karaoke queen.
Friday night dances: There are 3 that begin variously between 7 or 8pm and go till about 11pm: (1) the 32nd Street Dance Group on the Naval Station. (2) the Poway Group ("The Dance Place") dances mostly ballroom at the Growing Place Montessori School, 13242 Pomerado Road, Poway. $8. Contact (858) 748-5790. (3) the RMX Group dances mostly ballroom in Studio FX, 9499 Kearny Villa Road near Mira Mar Road; $8; contact is Esta at 858-386-2789.
Monday-Friday, roughly 9am-noon, Tooma Park Seniors, dance, eat, etc., under a cabana at Bay Terraces Park, 7449 Tooma Street, San Diego.
Till we dance again, Bert
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