by Beki Crider
Happy Thanksgiving to all...
a small History
lesson!
Your Fort Worth E-Board wants to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy your time with your family. We will be here when you get back!
That is one statement that the Fort Worth Chapter can say and it has always been true.
We have been a chapter for 16 years and we have always been a strong chapter, involved in the association and doing our part to insure the motto of TCWDA and that is to continue to promote country and western dance.
Even during all the years that we did not have a home base and had to float our dancing all over the DFW Metroplex we kept this dream.
These are some of the clubs we have called home base; Westside Stories, Midnight Rodeo, Cheyenne Cattle Company, Cowboys in Arlington, a club next to Billy Bob's (I forgot the name (Butch Cassidies)), Billy Bob's, several small clubs in Fort Worth, Crowley, Azle and even in Dallas at Country 2000.
We became a great dance family and vowed to continue to hold it together until our beloved club on Bryant Irvin Road would open again.
We worked hard at promoting our goals and even harder at working within the system of TCWDA and with each other.
It's really great that when your efforts are to have fun with your friends and bring the dance to the city there is no time for
the pettiness to enter the picture. We have been a very blessed chapter with good strong leaders to keep it going all these years.
We learned from the best. I wish you could have known the Dallas Chapter members. They had some amazing individuals and that is where Ron & I got the idea to bring other dances like 2-Step, Cha-Cha, and others to our chapter. We loved Shuffle but we saw there was more.
You do know some of the early Arlington members like Terri Bordeaux and Charlie Williams. They did so much to promote dance and TCWDA and still do. Arlington like Dallas suffered the fate of leadership burnout. If no one comes in to help carry the load then
eventually the leader wears out. We need to grow more leaders to carry on for those getting tired.
We need to bring the young people in with their new ideas and ways to keep the dream going. Having multiple people to carry the load is also a way to handle the job. Your Fort Worth Chapter has always had a group that put their heart and soul into this chapter and molded her into the loving dance family she is today.
Charlie Williams after a bit of a rest started up the Stockyards Chapter several years ago and Terri Bordeaux brought the Cowboy Country Club to
join TCWDA as the Arlington Chapter again. Two Strong leaders once again doing a great job for the dance community.
Then Midland-Odessa Chapter came on the scene...(now there is a chapter of dance family deluxe. You really should meet these people. They are the best).
Then Denton Chapter came on the scene and the Westside Shufflers burst into the association with a good strong leader and started their own history.
All chapters with a purpose to promote country and western dance by "Just Dancing and having fun with friends".
That's why we are here...not to best another chapter but to "Just Dance with our friends".
If I could say one thing to all members it would be to enjoy your dance family for the good, the bad and yes sometimes the ugly of it. You get out of something exactly what you put into it so get involved and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Before long you will be an integral part of the association.
All Members Meeting
2006 TCWDA Christmas Party
Christmas Party for FW Chapter
Need email addresses for upcoming events!!!
Good friends are like stars...You don't always see them but you always know they are there.
Yes, it's time again for our All Members Meeting. This year it's our Halloween Theme again so come in costume/or not...your choice. It happens on Sunday, October 29th at 7:30 at Lockheed Martin Recreation Association at 3400 Bryant Irvin Road in Fort Worth.
If you are a TCWDA/LMRA member it's free with a Pot Luck dish and $5.00 without a dish. All non-members will need to pay $5.00 at the door and bring a dish also. Couples need to bring a double dish (hey it's only fair). The host is the Executive Board with the Fort Worth Chapter assisting in this venture. If you have never been to LMRA them you are in for a treat. The room is great and the floor great so expect some outrageous costumes and wonderful music from our
DJ, fun with you dance family and some awesome dancing to watch and say..."maybe someday I can do that"...WOW! Keep taking lessons from our DFW instructors and let them turn you into the WOW dancer on the floor.
In your sparkles or your jeans come one come all to our Holiday Christmas Party on Sunday, December 3rd at 7:30 at Lockheed Martin Recreation Association at 3400 Bryant Irvin Road in Fort Worth. TCWDA/LMRA gets in free at the door with a Pot Luck dish and $5.00 per person with no dish. Non-members must pay $5.00 also with a dish or $10.00 without a
dish.
If a couple bring a double dish.
But the main thing is be prepared to have so much fun with your Christmas dance family. The music will be great and your friends will be there so be prepared to have a wonderful Christmas Ball.
Christmas Party...December 16@7:00 at Don and Vera Hancock's new home @ 3021 Running Brook Dr. in Joshua. Bring a covered dish, Chapter will furnish the meet. We will be dancing and party down.... Click Here for a Yahoo Map and Driving Directions, if you need them.
Friday
night... we have decided to visit our
sister chapter the Westside Shufflers at Electric Cowboy’s on
Friday nights for a while. As you know we usually leave around 9:30 to 10:00 as it gets
more crowded by
then and the restaurants clear out so it’s a win win situation for both of us.
Saturday night...you will find us at
The Horseman Club doing our thing. This is our home base so come out
and join us for a fun night of dancing and being with friends.
If you would like to be informed about upcoming events or reminders on top of the
dance announce list then send me your email address and I will see that you get a
reminder. We have more workshops coming up and you need to be informed about
these. A lot of time is spent putting these together for you and I know if you just know
about them sooner you would want to attend. Ron and I and Donnie and Melinda and
so many others have gone to so many workshops over the years and I never come away
without some new knowledge or a reminder of something I knew to do but just had let
that idea or technique slip away. You know we are not getting any younger and the
minds are starting to go...so come to the workshops to try and stay ahead of this old age
thing.
We are looking for ideas for a road trip. We love taking these short weekend
excursions around Texas. If you know of a fun club you have been to before and
it’s a town we can drive to on a Saturday, dance that night at the club and
see some sights the next day in the area and then drive back let me know. Just send an email to me at: CronBekiC@charter.net
Beki
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