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Anita McNab presenting cheque to Cathy Burns, the Canadian Cancer Society (and my invaluable contact!!!)

With everyone's help this year, we raised $3,200 to donate to the Canadian Cancer Society!!

Thank you to everyone who helped make this year another success!!!
God Bless You All!!!

It was also our 5th Anniversary this year and since 2002 we've raised and donated
$12, 410.00
for cancer!!!! Thanks to all my friends and fellow dancers for helping me to make this possible.

There are so many to thank and I don't want to forget anyone, so I will say a huge thank you to everyone (you know who you are) and to all my local ladies for their contributions to the decoration of the hall, the gathering of gifts for the penny sale table and raffle, and a special thanks to Colette Proulx, my main artist who created those beautiful hats that adorned the stage wall. Great job done Colette! And a huge thank you to the visiting instructors who gave their time, money and heart to making this work!!!


Last but not least, the workshop would not have been such a success without it's one and only LYNN WARDEN , DJ Extraordinaire....... Thank you Lynn for donating your time, travel and expertise! You always had people on the floor dancing and with an excellent balance. See you here next year! and a surprise visitor Donna Laurin who brought Greased Lightning! to us. (this is not a current picture of these ladies, however it is the only one I have on file)

Some pics from this event:

Opening ceremonies with V. Kett and husband on stage with Anita. In front is Shirley Robinson and The Determinators. This is their final performance in Sudbury and needless to say a lot of tears flowed when it came time for them to leave on Saturday. We Sudbury dancers love you and miss you already!! (see them in Wasaga in September) (you can see some of the beautiful "paper" hats Colette made shown in the upper right corner of this pic and below.)

on stage with me is Vikki Kett, Canadian Cancer Society representative
from left to right are this year's instructors: Donna, Marthe, Zandra, Valerie, Terry (the short one), Suzette, Fred, Michele, and Pat. So many thanks need to go out to these instructors who travel up north, donate their time and money to help make this workshop fun and successful!! Thanks from the bottom of my heart guys!!


Fred Buckley dancing with The Determinators Friday night


The Determinators entertaining us Saturday at noon.


Our special guests this year "The Nickel City Cloggers"
Flo Atkins, Anita Belfry, Valerie Blanchard, Debbie Droog, Helen First, Marie Godin, Kaarina Hannaway, Syndi Hourtovenko, Carol Larocque, Jeannette McCormick, Barbara Renaud, Claudette Tellier, Marthe Thibeault, Donna Thomas and Lynne Wright.

This year's instructors: back row, left to right
Anita McNab (Bart Maverick), Suzette Nelson (Hiawatha???), Zandra McCallum (Calamity Jane), Marthe Thibeault (Doc Holiday), Valarie Keller (hiding behind saloon girl fan), Donna Channon (Bret Maverick), Michele Carver (Miss Kitty), Pat Pallas (Annie Oakley),
front row Fred Buckley (Billy the Kid), and the cute Terry Gaston sitting on his knee (Nelly McClung - a Suffragate).


left: Anita McNab, Shirley Robinson, and the rest of the Determinators' group in no particular order:
Deanna Churchill, Doug Harvey, Virgil Beckles, Deb Paradias, Rob Kilby, James King, Chuck Patterson, Kevin Grigg, Angie Hinton, Darlene Reed, Suzy Tierney, and Staff: Amanda and Karen, and Volunteers: Lisa and Mary-Anne
(The farewell picture on Saturday.)



I don't have names for all these great dancers but if you recognize yourself email me and let me know!

Event Director Anita McNab

This page updated : 07/29/2006