We were wondering where all the absent happy dancers were this past Wednesday October 5th, during FOREVER YOUNG NIGHT as part of Lucky Star Restaurant's weekly 'Filipino Night'. With only about 30 FOREVER YOUNGSTERS and about 10 other party-goers in the ballroom, there was a lot of friendly interaction between everyone. I think DJ Eric, the One-Man Band, noticed so few guys dancing with more than their "date" - who were those guys? Ping, Bong and Mel - that he cheered the women up by playing an all-time high number of line dances - 16 by my count, along with about 30 other ballroom dances between 6:45pm-9:30pm.
Of course there was plenty of room on the dance floor with no dance getting even 20 dancers on the floor, by my count. "Tennessee Waltz" got 15 dancers, most of them dancing the line dance. "S'mera" had about 24 dancers during the night because DJ Eric played it twice.
A new member to this email group, Remy DeRamos, was there. She gave us some history of Forever Young and she gave us info about a Lions Club "Jam Session" at Loma Verde on Nov 20th (see below for details on this and other upcoming dances).
Hoping for more dancers, we're looking forward to this coming week's FOREVER YOUNG NIGHT. It will again be WEDNESDAY NIGHT (October 13th) in the LUCKY STAR RESTAURANT from 6 to 9:30pm.
LINE DANCE TUESDAYS (free!) - About 15 line dancers showed up on Tuesday October 5th for line dancing led by the ever-energetic Nina at Point Point Joint. Chito & Cindy were there for the 1st time. Some other women were planning a Filipino event in Point Point when we began, and they were our VIP dancers of the night. Nina introduced a line dance, "Shalala Lala", and its YouTube video link is in Links section and the MP3 is in the Files section.
You can join the fun this coming Tuesday (October 12th) 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:
I attach two photos "virtually". First of all, it's 12 of us from Tuesday Oct 5th.
Then, from FOREVER YOUNG NIGHT at Lucky Star on Oct 6th, it's Divine and Ping dancing a night club 2-step.
I put those plus 8 other photos from the past week in the Forever Young Group Photos section into the '2010 October' 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/2010October#
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 12th, 6:30-9pm, FREE line dancing at Point Point, 916 E. 8th St., Nat'l City
Wednesday October 13th, 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.
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
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 6:30-11:30PM,
Iloilo Association of San Diego County Inc. Jam Session
Loma Verde Recreation Center
1420 Loma Lane, Chula Vista
$20 donation. DJ: Mar Delavin.
Saturday, November 20, 2010, 6-11PM
"Jam Session" Food & Dance for San Diego Classic Lions Club.
at Loma Verde Rec Center, 1420 Loma Lane, Chula Vista.
$15. DJ
For tickets: Remy at 619-288-4507 or 619-474-8858
OTHER DANCING EVENTS:
(I do not regularly go to these, so I wouldn't know if the event is cancelled on any particular day.)
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 dancing: These 3 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. And, there's a 4th one: (4) Red Hot Line Dancers. They dance line dances for FREE every Friday in the senior center at 8460 Mira Mesa Blvd., from 7-9pm. Contact is Rose Mata at 858-204-7454.
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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